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By this time most of them had had their spears broken and were killing the Persians with swords. Leonidas, proving himself extremely valiant, fell in that struggle and with him other famous Spartans, whose names I have learned by inquiry since they were worthy men. Indeed, I have learned by inquiry the names of all three hundred. 1
By this time most of them had had their spears broken and were killing the Persians with swords. Leonidas, proving himself extremely valiant, fell in that struggle and with him other famous Spartans, whose names I have learned by inquiry since they were worthy men. Indeed, I have learned by inquiry the names of all three hundred. 1
[2] Many famous
Persians also fell there, including two sons of
Darius,
Abrocomes and
Hyperanthes, born to
Darius by
Phratagune daughter of
Artanes.
Artanes was the brother of king
Darius and son of
Hystaspes son of
Arsames. When he gave his daughter in marriage to
Darius, he gave his whole house as dowry, since she was his only child.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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