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EPAMINONDAS. [greece.
surpass him in courage. He had the misfortune to in-
struct Philip, the father of Alexander, in the military
art: but who could foresee that the descendant of a weak
and humbled monarch would one day become the scourge
of Greece ?
Epaminondas had led a life of celibacy. His friends,
who surrounded him in his last moments, shed tears in
abundance, and appeared to regret that he had died with-
out posterity. a I leave behind me two daughters/’ re-
plied this great man : “ The victory of Leuctra, and that
of Mantinea.” He died in the forty-eighth year of his
age, 363 years B. J. C.
surpass him in courage. He had the misfortune to in-
struct Philip, the father of Alexander, in the military
art: but who could foresee that the descendant of a weak
and humbled monarch would one day become the scourge
of Greece ?
Epaminondas had led a life of celibacy. His friends,
who surrounded him in his last moments, shed tears in
abundance, and appeared to regret that he had died with-
out posterity. a I leave behind me two daughters/’ re-
plied this great man : “ The victory of Leuctra, and that
of Mantinea.” He died in the forty-eighth year of his
age, 363 years B. J. C.