FROM THE BATTLE OF MARATHON TO THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS

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The failure of the expedition led by Datis and Artaphernes, in the invasion of Attica, was poorly compensated, by their success against Eretria; the insult it had offered to the majesty of the Persian empire was sufficiently avenged by its ruin, and when the captive Eretrians were brought to Darius, he was satisfied with planting them in a part of his own domain, in the Cissian village of Ardericca. But his anger was doubly inflamed against Athens by the event of Marathon, which did not suggest to him any wholesome warning; the conclusion he drew from it was, that his power had been defied with impunity, merely because it had not been fully exerted. Now therefore he resolved that the insolent people, which had invaded his territories, violated the persons of his messengers, and driven his generals to a shameful flight, should feel the whole weight of his arm. A year had been spent in the pre-parations for the last campaign: those he now set on foot were on a vast scale, and demanded a

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