History & Politics
Book XVI, 5
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)
History & Politics
Both Xerxes led a Persian host to the land of Hellas, and Titus, too, led there a host from broad Italy, but the one meant to set the yoke of slavery on the neck of Europe, the other to put an end to the servitude of Hellas.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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