HELMET AND SPEAR

STORIES FROM THE WARS OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS

By the

REV. A.J. CHURCH, M.A.

Sometime Professor of Latin in University College, London Author of "Stories from Homer," etc.

"Yea, but of war the righteous last event In highest Heaven is born, And from great Zeus with saving power is sent."

Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes.

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Flight of the Persians after Marathon.