id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikisource-org-807 The History of Herodotus (Rawlinson)/Book 7 - Wikisource, the free online library .html text/html 39489 1696 76 But shouldest thou refuse this wager, and still resolve to march an army against Greece, sure I am that some of those whom thou leavest behind thee here will one day receive the sad tidings that Mardonius has brought a great disaster upon the Persian people, and lies a prey to dogs and birds somewhere in the land of the Athenians, or else in that of the Lacedaemonians; unless indeed thou shalt have perished sooner by the way, experiencing in thy own person the might of those men on whom thou wouldest fain induce the king to make war." ./cache/en-wikisource-org-807.html ./txt/en-wikisource-org-807.txt