[Footnote 1: It will be a pleasure, not a task, to read
Herodotus, (l. vii. c. 104, 134, p. 550, 615.) The
conversation of Xerxes and Demaratus at Thermopylae is one
of the most interesting and moral scenes in history. It was
the torture of the royal Spartan to behold, with anguish and
remorse, the virtue of his country.]