ABSTRACT
The barbarians many times seized hold of the Greek spears and brake them; for in boldness and warlike spirit the Persians were not a whit inferior to the Greeks.— Herodotus ix. 62. Those black granite pillars, once high-reared By Jamshid in Persepolis to bear is house, now, ‘mid their broken flights of steps, Lie prone, enormous, down the mountain-side. Matthew Arnold.
