“Far from the battle, on that fatal day
Beside Thermodon may I flee away,
Or view it as an eagle from the sky;
There shall the vanquished weep, the victor die.”

— Plutarch , book Parallel Lives

Demosthenes, sec. 19
Parallel Lives

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ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46–127

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