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Show Atrocity of Ancient Warfare. At tho siege of Xanthus, In Lydia, nets wore spread In a river to prevent pre-vent tho escape of divers, and stakes driven deep In the ground to balHo tunneling operations; whereupon the citizens appealed to fire, piling up hillocks of combustibles, and, "not men only, but women and Httlo children, chil-dren, with hideous outcries, leaped into the Haines, and thus repeated tho desperate deed of their ancestors, who, In tho time of tho Persian war, had destroyed themselves In tho very same manner." (Plutarch's Life of Brutus, p. 218.) |