Williams, Hugh W.: Select views in Greece (Band 1) (London, 1829)

PLAIN OF PLAT^A,

FROM MOUNT CITH^ERON.

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Herodot. IX.

" The Greeks marched along the base of Mount Cithaeron, by Hysia,
into the Plain of Platvea ; and there they formed their array near the
Gargaphian Fountain, arranging themselves according to their tribes along
an expanse of rugged ground, diversified with hillocks of considerable
height **=**. The following lines of Bacis refer to this engagement.

" By green Asopus' and Thermodon's banks,
Shall Hellas muster her unconquered ranks,
When, with Barbarian shriek, the quivered Mede
Shall in the ire of Fate and Freedom bleed."

J. P.

-Here the Persian tyrant, foiled and stung

With shame and desperation, gnashed his teeth,
To see thee rend the pageants of his throne,
And at the lightning of thy lifted spear
Crouched like a slave."

Byron's Childe Harold.