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Volume 17 · 53 words · 1810 Edition

the renowned Athenian admiral, general, and patriot, who gained the battle of Salamis against the Persians. Being banished his country by his ungrateful fellow-citizens, he fled to Artaxerxes king of Persia; but, in order to avoid taking up arms against his country, he flew himself, 464 B.C. See ATTICA, no 76, et seq.