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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Histories</strong>–Book Eight V 65<br />

Mad hope swelling their hearts at the downfall<br />

of beautiful Athens<br />

<strong>The</strong>n shall godlike Right extinguish haughty<br />

Presumption,<br />

Insult’s furious offspring, who thinketh to overthrow<br />

all things.<br />

Brass with brass shall mingle, and Mars with<br />

blood shall empurple<br />

Ocean’s waves. <strong>The</strong>n- then shall the day of<br />

Grecia’s freedom<br />

Come from Victory fair, and Saturn’s son allseeing.<br />

When I look to this, and perceive how clearly<br />

Bacis spoke, neither venture myself to say anything<br />

against prophecies, nor do approve of others<br />

impugning them.<br />

Meanwhile, among the captains at Salamis, the<br />

strife of words grew fierce. As yet they did not<br />

know that they were encompassed, but imagined<br />

that the barbarians remained in the same places<br />

where they had seen them the day before.

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