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746 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary book 7, chapter 224
   It is possible that the Athenian legend of Marathon had associated the long sword with that victory before the story of Thermopylai was garnered by Hdt., or even before the battle of Thermopylai was fought (cp. 9. 27, where, however, the claymore has not yet appeared); or it is possible that the legends of Marathon and of Thermopylai were developed in rivalry with each other, and that Aristophanes (Knights 781 ff. (21.40)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *o, entry *oi)no/h
   near Marathon ; (19.95)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *d, entry *da_tismo/s
   a speaking like Datis (the Median commander at Marathon), i.e. speaking broken Greek, , s.v. (16.64)

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1 from Renaissance Materials

1. Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie paragraph 19
   His vertue is excellent in the dangerlesse Academy of Plato: but mine sheweth forth her honourable face in the battailes of Marathon, Pharsalia, Poietiers, and Agincourt. (2.63)

10 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 29, object 1
   Battle of Marathon. (5.59)

2. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 28, object 1
   Supposed Representation of the Battle of Marathon. (3.89)

3. London: Volume 2 (ed. Charles Knight) chapter 12, page 183
   Even thus, as still the blue Aegean tumbles among its sunny isles, did the Ocean, from childhood to blind old age, paint itself to the mind of Homer; even as at this day the mountains look on Marathon, and Marathon looks on the sea, did that scenery send down its melancholy grandeur into the eyes and the souls of Miltiades and his little host encamped there three-and-twenty centuries ago. (3.48)

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9 from American Memory: California

1. A truthful woman in southern California; by Kate Sanborn page 162
   "The mountains look on Marathon,
   And Marathon looks on the sea. (4.06)

2. Life in the open; sport with rod, gun, horse, and hound in southern California page 148
   The Southern California mountains have no Marathon to look down upon, but they have the sea, and from anywhere the blue Pacific with its outline of white surf gleams brightly in the sunlight. (3.60)

3. My seventy years in California, 1857-1927, by J.A. Graves page 373
   "There I was, clinging to ten crazy elephants, doing a Marathon down a public highway, with a lot of panic-stricken musicians and a clown as passengers. (3.42)

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75 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863/1864, embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state page 229
   A post village of Marathon township, in the county of Lapeer, 68 miles north of Detroit. (6.20)

2. Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863/1864, embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state page 424
   It contains the post village of Marathon. (5.59)

3. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Volume 14 page 393
   Marathon is an exceedingly quiet town, slow but prosperous, and the ruling' element is German. (5.59)

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5 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Isabel Anderson, Presidents and pies; life in Wasington 1897–1919, by Isabel Anderson page 189
   His victory was said to be “a triumph comparable with Valmy and with Marathon, the one a victory of the spirit, the other a triumph of the intelligence. (4.54)

2. John W. Bell, Memoirs of governor William Smith, of Virginia. His political, military, and personal history. By John W. Bell page x
   Marathon 93 (4.43)

3. James Taylor Holmes, Richmond revisited by a federal, 1865-1905, Columbus, Ohio page 24
   The charge or charges and their repulses will live as long as Marathon or Waterloo. (2.92)

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1 from Tufts University History

1. Department of Athletics, Athletics Rosters section 88
   Bonne Bell Mini Marathon (7.84)

138 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 28149
   Marathon, Museum, 566 (10.16)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 216263
   Marathon, Museum, 36.1.228 (10.16)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 46606
   Marathon, Museum (10.16)

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