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The heroes : or Greek fairy tales for my children (1879)

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 299

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le friends ; so that the friendship of Theseus andPeirithoos is a proverb even now. And he gathered(so the Athenians say) all the boroughs of the landtogether, and knit them into one strong people,while before they were all parted and weak: andmany another wise thing he did, so that his… … P 253. THESEUS. 253 of Tlieseus, with liis mighty brazen club, fighting inthe van of battle against the invading Persians, forthe country which he loved. And twenty years afterMarathon, his bones (they say) were found in Seuros,an isle beyond the sea; and they were bigger thanthe bones of mortal…

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