[18]. Hebdomadal Report—Evidence, p. 81.
[19]. Tour in Wales, ii. 306.
[20]. Roy’s Military Antiquities, p. 206.
[21]. Bruce on the Roman Wall, p. 53.
[22]. History of the English Army ii. 308.
[23]. Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz: a Tragedy. By T. Percy Jones. Printed for private circulation.
[24]. Pentelicus overhangs the south side of the plain of Marathon, separating it from the great Attic plain. Those who have seen the beautiful Bay of Brodick, in the Island of Arran, have seen Marathon on a small scale, except that Goat Fell, which represents Pentelicus, is on the north. On the south, or Athenian side, this famous mountain is sufficiently bare, but towards Marathon it is richly wooded; and the direct road from the village of Vrana to the valley of the Cephissus, over the northwest shoulder of the mountain, is one of the wildest and most picturesque passes in Greece.
[25]. Pan played a somewhat prominent part in the great Persian war.—(Herodotus, I. 105.) He had a famous cave near Marathon (Pausan., I. 32), which archæologists have idly endeavoured to identify.
[26]. Darius was led by Hippias, who was familiar with this approach, to Attica, having come this way with his father, Pisistratus, when that tyrant established himself in the sovereignty of Attica for the last time.
[27]. Hercules was the patron-saint, to use modern language, of Marathon; and, where the Athenians conquered, Theseus could not be absent. These two heroes, therefore, were represented in the picture of the battle of Marathon in the painted Stoa, (Pausan., I. 15). The fountain of Macaria, the daughter of Hercules and Deianeira, is mentioned by Pausanias, (I. c. 32), as being on the field of Marathon; and sure enough there is a well on the road from Marathon to Rhamnus, near the north end of the plain, which Mr Finlay is willing to baptise with the name of the old classical nymph.