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When the message concerning the fight at Marathon came to Darius son of Hystaspes, already greatly angry against the Athenians for their attack upon Sardis, he was now much more angry and eager to send an expedition against Hellas.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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