Greece: Handbook for TravellersK. Baedeker, 1889 - 374 pages |
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Page 50 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Page 50 - SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, ^ Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 108 - Nevertheless the Athenians secured in this way seven of the vessels, while with the remainder the barbarians pushed off...
Page 107 - The Persians, therefore, when they saw the Greeks coming on at speed, made ready to receive them, although it seemed to them that the Athenians were bereft of their senses, and bent upon their own destruction; for they saw a mere handful of men coming on at a run without either horsemen or archers.
Page 107 - Then at length, when his own turn was come, the Athenian battle was set in array, and this was the order of it : Callimachus the polemarch led the right wing ; for it was at that time a rule with the Athenians to give the right wing to the polemarch. After this followed the tribes, according as they were numbered, in an unbroken line ; while last of all came the Plataeans, forming the left wing.
Page 99 - Billowed the solemn psean of the Greeks, But like the shout of men to battle urging, With lusty cheer. Then the fierce trumpet's voice Blazed o'er the main ; and on the salt sea flood Forthwith the oars with measured plash descended, And all their lines, with dexterous speed displayed,, Stood with opposing front. The right wing first, Then the whole fleet, bore down, and straight uprose A mighty shout : "Sons of the Greeks, advance! Your country free, your children free, your wives, — The altars...
Page 99 - Of each ship with his adverse desperate. At first the main line of the Persian fleet Stood the harsh shock : but soon their multitude Became their ruin : in the narrow frith They might not use their strength, and, jammed together, Their ships with brazen beaks did bite each other, And shattered their own oars. Meanwhile the Greeks Stroke after stroke dealt dexterous all around, Till our ships showed their keels, and the blue sea Was seen no more, with multitude of ships And corpses covered. All the...
Page 107 - Such was the opinion of the barbarians, but the Athenians in close array fell upon them and fought in a manner worthy of being recorded. They were the first of the Greeks, so far as I know, who introduced the custom of charging the enemy at a run, and they were likewise the first who dared to look upon the Median garb and to face men clad in that fashion. Until this time the very name of the Medes had been a terror to the Greeks to hear.
Page 99 - Then the fierce trumpet's voice Blazed o'er the main ; and on the salt sea flood Forthwith the oars with measured plash descended, And all their lines, with dexterous speed displayed,, Stood with opposing front. The right wing first, Then the whole fleet, bore down, and straight uprose A mighty shout : "Sons of the Greeks, advance! Your country free, your children free, your wives, — The altars of your native gods deliver, And your ancestral tombs, — all's now at stake !" A like salute from our...
Page 99 - In Persian speech. Nor more delay, but straight Trireme on trireme, brazen beak on beak, Dashed furious. A Greek ship led on the attack, And from the prow of a Phoenician struck The figure-head ; and now the grapple closed Of each ship with his adverse desperate. At first the main line of the Persian fleet Stood the harsh shock : but soon their multitude Became their ruin : in the narrow frith They might not use their strength, and, jammed together, Their ships with brazen beaks did bite each other,...