Identifier: historyofdariusg00abbo (find matches)
Title: History of Darius the Great
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
Subjects: Darius I, King of Persia, 548-485 B.C
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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us the Great. (B.C.504. The Ionian rebellion. Its failure. Death of Histiseus. their cause seemed likely to succeed; but atlength the tide turned against them. Theirtowns were captured, their ships were takenand destroyed, their armies cut to pieces. His-tiseus retreated from place to place, a wretchedfugitive, growing more and more distressed anddestitute every day. At length, as he was fly-ing from a battle field, he arrested the arm ofa Persian, who was pursuing him with hisweapon upraised, by crying out that he wasHistiseus the Milesian. The Persian, hearingthis, spared his life, but took him prisoner, anddelivered him to Artaphernes. Histiseus beg-ged very earnestly that Artaphernes would sendhim to Darius alive, in hopes that Darius wouldpardon him in consideration of his former serv-ices at the bridge of the Danube. This was,however, exactly what Artaphernes wished toprevent; so he crucified the wretched Histiseusat Sardis, and then packed his head in salt andsent it to Darius.
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B.C.512.) Invasion of Greece. 233 Great battles. Progress of the Persian empire. Chapter XL The Invasion of Greece and theBattle of Marathon. N the history of a great military conquer-or, there seems to be often some one greatbattle which in importance and renown eclip-ses all the rest. In the case of Hannibal it wasthe battle of Cannae, in that of Alexander thebattle of Arbela. Caesars great conflict was atPharsalia, Napoleons at Waterloo. Marathonwas, in some respects, Dariuss Waterloo. Theplace is a beautiful plain, about twelve milesnorth of the great city of Athens. The battlewas the great final contest between Darius andthe Greeks, which, both on account of the aw-ful magnitude of the conflict, and the very ex-traordinary circumstances which attended it,has always been greatly celebrated among man-kind. The whole progress of the Persian empire,from the time of the first accession of Cyrus tothe throne, was toward the westward, till itreached the confines of Asia on the shores of

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