The Finding of Pheidippides, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Finding of Pheidippides, and Other Poems I Have been asked to tell all I know about Pheidippides, that famous Athenian runner, who carried in two days from Athens to Sparta, a distance of 150 miles, the news of the Persian landing at Marathon; who was met by Pan on his way back, was promised the assistance of the God on behalf of the Greeks, and mysteriously disappears from history after that achievement. Now it so happens, that, no matter how or when - as St. Paul says, "whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell" - I found myself travelling from Sparta to Argos, and fell in with a young Athenian noble, who, in some state, with a retinue of servants and sumpter-horses, was making the same journey. A glance at him showed his amazing beauty of person, and a brief talk with him the brilliance and cultivation of his mind. I did not take so favourable an impression of his moral character, but that was unlikely to affect the pleasure of a temporary acquaintance, and so, when he asked me to join his company, I gladly consented. He told me that he was to make a detour of some miles in order to visit a remarkable old man, an octogenarian, who was stated confidently by some of his friends in Sparta to be this very Pheidippides. 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.
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