For Athens, leave pasture and flock! If he ran the 246 km over rough roads from Athens to Sparta within two days, it would be an achievement worthy of remembrance. he gracious began:'How is it,—Athens, only in Hellas, holds me aloof? Persia bids Athens proffer slaves'-tribute, water and earth;Razed to the ground is Eretria.—but Athens? Gravely they turned to take counsel, to cast for excuses. "Athens is saved!

He then ran the 42 km (26.2 miles) from the battlefield by the town of Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon ( 490 BC) with the word "Νενικήκαμεν!" 'Athens, she only, rears me no fane, makes me no feast!Wherefore? Athens is saved, thank Pan, go shout!" the meed is thy due! Count we no time lost time which lags through respect to the Gods! The European Heart Journal achieves impact factor greater than 10 for the first time. As, under the human trunk, the goat-thighs grand I saw. Than I what godship to Athens more helpful of old?

No bridgeBetter!'—when—ha! the meed is thy due! "Halt, Pheidippides! Jutted, a stoppage of stone against me, blocking the way. Why pale in my presence?" Like wine thro' clay,Joy in his blood bursting his heart, he died—the bliss! what was it I came on, of wonders that are? While the marathon celebrates the mythical run from Marathon to Athens, since 1982 an annual footrace from Athens to Sparta, known as the Spartathlon, celebrates Pheiddipides's at least semi-historical run across 250 km of Greek countryside. It was the ninth day of the month, and they said they could not take the field until the moon was full. No care for my limbs!—there's lightning in all and some—Fresh and fit your message to bear, once lips give it birth!' On the occasion of which I speak - when Pheidippides, that is, was sent on his mission by the Athenian commanders and said that he saw Pan - he reached Sparta the day after he left Athens and delivered his message to the Spartan government.

See, 't is myself here standing alive, no spectre that speaks! It was this poem which inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin and other founders of the modern Olympic Games to invent a running race of 42 km called the Marathon. Athens must wait, patient as we—who judgment suspend." Ran like fire once more: and the space 'twixt the fennel-field Parnes to Athens—earth no more, the air was my road: You that, our patrons were pledged, should never adorn a slave! —Not one word to waste, one look to lose on the false and the vile! Already she rounds to it fast: No care for my limbs!—there's lightning in all and some— "And thee, best runner of Greece, "How is it,—Athens, only in Hellas, holds me aloof? * * * * *Then spoke Miltiades.° 'And thee, best runner of Greece,Whose limbs did duty indeed,—what gift is promised thyself?Tell it us straightway,—Athens the mother demands of her son!

Joy in his blood bursting his heart, he died--the bliss! So, to this day, when friend meets friend, the word of salute This page was last edited on 16 April 2013, at 09:35.

The first known written account of a run from Marathon to Athens occurs in the works of the Greek writer Plutarch ( 46- 120), in his essay On the Glory of Athens. Pan for Athens, Pan for me! See, 't is myself here standing alive, no spectre that speaks! and died on the spot. What matter if slacked Lo, their answer at last! Go, say to Athens, 'The Goat-God saith:When Persia—so much as strews not the soil—Is cast in the sea,Then praise Pan who fought in the ranks with your most and least,Goat-thigh to greaved-thigh, made one cause with the free and the bold!'

From the racer's toil, no vulgar reward in praise or in pelf!' did Sparta respond?Every face of her leered in a furrow of envy, mistrust,Malice,—each eye of her gave me its glitter of gratified hate!Gravely they turned to take counsel, to cast for excuses. 'Say Pan saith: 'Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge! Hand and heart and voice! First I salute this soil of the blessed, river and rock!Gods of my birthplace, dæmons and heroes, honour to all!Then I name thee, claim thee for our patron, co-equal in praiseAy, with Zeus the Defender, with Her of the ægis and spear!Also, ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer,Now, henceforth, and forever,—O latest to whom I upraiseHand and heart and voice! Than I what godship to Athens more helpful of old?Ay, and still, and forever her friend! "While, as for thee..." But enough! Athene, are Spartans a quarry beyondSwing of thy spear? Sadly for historical romance, the story is probably not true. I stood

Praise Pan, we stand no more on the razor's edge!Pan for Athens, Pan for me! Was the space between city and city: two days, two nights did I burn His eyes from the ground, it seemed as he gathered the rest of his strength Into their midst I broke: breath served but for 'Persia has come! Joy in his blood bursting his heart, he died—the bliss! The messenger was an Athenian named Pheidippides, a professional long-distance runner. Thunder, thou Zeus! "—halt I did, my brain of a whirl: Such my cry as, rapid, I ran over Parnes' ridge;Gully and gap I clambered and cleared till, sudden, a barJutted, a stoppage of stone against me, blocking the way.Right! I cried, as each hillock and plain, 'Has Persia come,—does Athens ask aid,—may Sparta befriend?Nowise precipitate judgment—too weighty the issue at stake!Count we no time lost time which lags thro' respect to the Gods!Ponder that precept of old, 'No warfare, whatever the odds In your favour, so long as the moon, half-orbed, is unable to takeFull-circle her state in the sky!' The Spartans, though moved by the appeal, and willing to send help to Athens, were unable to send it promptly because they did not wish to break their law. The European Heart Journal is a success story: what started as the Cinderella of Cardiology 31 years ago 1 has—against the odds—become a major voice in clinical and basic research of cardiovascular medicine. Here am I back. Marry a certain maid, I know keeps faith to the brave,— Malice,—each eye of her gave me its glitter of gratified hate! Like wine through clay, 'Athens is saved, thank Pan,' go shout!" —Ay, with Zeus the Defender, with Her of the ægis and spear! Into the utterance—"Pan spoke thus: 'For what thou hast done I stoodQuivering,—the limbs of me fretting as fire frets, an inch from dry wood:'Persia has come, Athens asks aid, and still they debate?Thunder, thou Zeus! So is Pheidippides happy forever,--the noble strong man.

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Swing of thy spear? Carved on the bearded cheek, amused at a mortal's awe, Night in the fosse? Did Sparta respond? In your favour, so long as the moon, half-orbed, is unable to take I too have a guerdon rare!


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