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Rh, because he was the first to attack the commander of the Persian fleet, shattered the ship to pieces, and killed the Satrap. It is observed that the two brothers were ever after inseparable. The following year Æschylus acquired fresh glory in the battle of Platææ, where the brave Persian Mardonius was defeated and slain.

Having taken this active part in three the most memorable battles that grace the annals of Greece, and distinguished himself as a good citizen and a brave man, he returned with ardour to his former studies, and completed his design of making the Drania a regular, noble, and rational entertainment. He wrote about seventy tragedies, and was in great esteem with his countrymen: but upon some disgust in: the latter part of his life he retired from Athens’ to the court of Hiero king of Sicily, where about three years after he died in the sixty-ninth year of his age. The cause of this disgust is variously related: some impute it to his impatience of the rising’ fame of Sophocles, yet a young man, to whom the prize was adjudged against him ; others to the preference given to the Elegies of Simonides written in honour of those who fell in the field of Marathon.

But to have excelled in Elegy could have added no glory to the superior genius of Æschylus: neither does it appear probable that such a contest should