26 PLAIN OF MARATHON. 
CHAP, of the finest specimens of his writing; and 
' -^ although it be rare indeed to find any instance 
of subhmity, or even of elevated style, in his 
descriptions, there is something in his " nocturnal 
sounds oj^ the neighing oj' horses \ and the apparitions 
of armed combatants upon the Plain," which re- 
mind us of Cicero^: — " S.epe etiam ix prje- 
Liis Fauxi auditi, et in rebus turbidis 
VEREDIC.E VOCES EX OCCULTO MISS.E ESSE 
DicuNTUR." It has been sometimes surmised 
that this lofty Mound might have been heaped 
over the bodies of the Persians; but the conjec- 
ture does not accord with the account of their 
overthrow into the Lake at the southern extre- 
mity of the Plain (distant at least two miles 
from this spot), and into the sea. Pausanias 
mentions, indeed, a tradition concerning the 
burial of the Persians by their conquerors; but 
he gives it no credit; affirming that not a vestige 
could be discerned of any sepulchre wherein 
they were interred ; and believing it to be more 
probable that their bodies were cast into any 
trench, as chance offered ^ 
fta^eftVJQJi lirriv airPiff^ai. PaUS. ibid. 
(2) Cicero de Divinatioue, lib. i. 
(3) Tolls oi Vlr,oou; 'A^zvaToi fitv Sa-^ici \iyouri)>, a; 'X'dvTui; hriov atPfuirou 
itxpot yri xpv^^ai' ralfov ii olViva lipiTu iiwdfi'/iv' etlri yap ^u/ax, ovn aXXt 
<rnf/.i7ot r,v liiTt' l; ofuyfi» Ss ^Ipovrts (rfZ; u; rv^anv, l«/JaXi)v. Puus. ibid. 
