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CHAPTER VI.
MARATHON.
WavTes, MiATia3i/, Tot o- antjia eoya 'itratrtv
Vlepaai' teat Mapadwv oris aper^ Tefxevos.
Inscript. ap. Grut. p. 438.
Miltiades! from thy sword the East did flee;
And Marathon a Temple is to Thee.
Oct. 12.
After an hour and a half from Rhamnus we
reach the plain of Marathon. It is a still afternoon,
and the sky is gloomy. The place looks very dreary.
The plain extends in length six miles along the shore,
and rather more than two inland. It looks hrown
and dry: it has no hedges, and few prominent objects
of any kind: here and there is a stunted wild pear-
tree, and there are some low pines by the sea-shore;
and occasionally there is a small solitary chapel in
ruins rising out of the plain. There is no house
visible except on the inland skirts of the plain;
and a few peasants ploughing on it at a distance
with their slow teams of small oxen are the only
living creatures to be seen.
MARATHON.
WavTes, MiATia3i/, Tot o- antjia eoya 'itratrtv
Vlepaai' teat Mapadwv oris aper^ Tefxevos.
Inscript. ap. Grut. p. 438.
Miltiades! from thy sword the East did flee;
And Marathon a Temple is to Thee.
Oct. 12.
After an hour and a half from Rhamnus we
reach the plain of Marathon. It is a still afternoon,
and the sky is gloomy. The place looks very dreary.
The plain extends in length six miles along the shore,
and rather more than two inland. It looks hrown
and dry: it has no hedges, and few prominent objects
of any kind: here and there is a stunted wild pear-
tree, and there are some low pines by the sea-shore;
and occasionally there is a small solitary chapel in
ruins rising out of the plain. There is no house
visible except on the inland skirts of the plain;
and a few peasants ploughing on it at a distance
with their slow teams of small oxen are the only
living creatures to be seen.