Aunt Charlottes Stories of Greek History for the Little Ones
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One went back with the allies, the other caused his Helot to lead him to the camp, where, in the evening, all made ready to die, and Leonidas sat down to his last meal, telling his friends that on the morrow they should sup with Pluto. One of these Thespians had answered, when he was told that the Persian arrows came so thicklyas to hide the sky, " So much the better ; we shall fight in the shade. " The Expedition of Xerxes. 147 The Persians were by this time so much afraid of these brave men t...hat they could only be driven against them by whips. Leonidas and his thousand burst out on them beyond the wall, and there fought the whole day, till everyone of them was slain, but with heaps upon heaps of dead Persians round them, so that, when Xerxes looked at the spot, he asked in horror whether all the Greeks were like these, and how many more Spartans there were. Like a barbarian, he had Leoni- das' body hung on a cross ; but in after times the brave king's bones were buried on the spot, and a mound raised over the other warriors, with the words engraven " Go, passer-by, at Sparta tell, Obedient to her law, we fell.
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