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Show Atrocity of Ancient Warfare, M At (he slcgci of Xanthust In Lydla, H nets were spread In a liver to pro- H vent tho escape of dlveis, iuil stakes driven deep In the ground to balllo H tunneling operations, wlieieupon tho M citizens appealed to (lro, piling up H hillocks ol combustibles, and, "not H men only, but women and llltlu clill- H dren, wltli hideous outcries, leaped M into the Haines, and thus repented tho H lcpciato deed of thcli ancestors, H Alio In tho time of tho Persian wnr, ' id ditio)od themselves In tliu very H intf manner (Plutarch's Life of .it uh p 2S ) fl |