11-14-2009, 01:19 PM
"sidestep"? .....not at all. Rather than argue pointlessly about the significance or otherwise of those phrases, I merely point out other reasons, in addition, for thinking Herodotus did not visit Plataea - not to mention that no commentator I know of supposes that he did.....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
