sheep.]

At last the previously unvanquished lords of Asia turned their
backs and fled, and the Greeks followed, striking them down, to
the water's edge, where the invaders were now hastily launching
their galleys, and seeking to embark and fly. Flushed with
success, the Athenians dashed at the fleet.

[The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow;
The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear;
Mountains above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below,
Death in the front, Destruction in the rear!
Such was the scene.--Byron's CHILDE HARROLD.]

"Bring fire, bring fire," was their cry; and they began to lay
hold of the ships. But here the Asiatics resisted desperately,
and the principal loss sustained by the Greeks was in the assault
on the fleet. Here fell the brave War-Ruler Callimachus, the
general Stesilaus, and other Athenians of note. Conspicuous
among them was Cynaegeirus, the brother of the tragic poet
AEschylus. He had grasped the ornamental work on the stern of
one of the galleys, and had his hand struck off by an axe. Seven
galleys were captured; but the Persians succeeded in saving the
rest. They pushed off from the fatal shore: but even here the
skill of Datis did not desert him, and he sailed round to the
western coast of Attica, in hopes to find the city unprotected,
and to gain possession of it from some of the partisans of
Hippias. Miltiades, however, saw and counteracted his manoeuvre.
Leaving Aristides, and the troops of his tribe, to guard the
spoil and the slain, the Athenian commander led his conquering