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uncovered bis arm, which was mutilated in the
service of his country, and pleaded his bra-
very and meritorious conduct.

The defence of Amynias would not, however,
have been effectual, had not iEschylus proved
that, being uninitiated in the mysteries of Ceres,
he could not possibly reveal them. He, by
this means, escaped the vengeance of the peo-
ple, who were waiting at the door of the tribu-
nal to execute the judgement of stoning him
to death. Out of ninety-seven compositions
which were written by iEschylus, but seven
have come down to us: Prometheus, Septem
Duces apud Thebas, Persae, Agamemnon, Eu-
menides, Supplices, and Choephori. The tra-
gedies possess much energy and sublimity of
thought, but sometimes degenerate into bom-
bast and wild obscurity. His fictions are often
unnatural, and his characters terrific. Pausa-
nias mentions that iEscbylus wrote a poem
on the battle of Marathon, to which he sub-
scribed his own name, and that of his country,
although he had never alluded to himself in any
of his other works. He adds, " The poet re-
ports of himself, that when a youth, watching