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Excerpt from A Victor of Salamis: A Tale of the Days of Xerxes, Leonidas and Themistocles
The crier paused for the fifth time. The crowd knotty Spartans, keen Athenians, perfumed Sicilians pressed his pulpit closer, elbowing for the place Of vantage. Amid a lull in their clamour the crier recommenced. And now, men of Hellas, another time hearken. The sixth contestant in the pentathlon, most honourable of the games held at the Isthmus, is Glaucon, son of Conon the Athenian; his grandfather a jangling shout drowned him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
