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bounds, escaped the gaolers, and were coming to assail the island, led by Phalaris the Agrigentine, Busyris the Ægyptian, Diomedes the Thracian, Sciron, Pituocamptes, and others:Who were all bloody tyrants, or notorious robbers. which Rhadamanthus hearing, he ranged the Heroes in battle array upon the sea-shore, under the leading of Theseus and Achilles and Ajax Telamonius, who had now recovered his senses, where they joined fight; but the Heroes had the day, Achilles carrying himself very nobly. SocratesPlato in his Laches, or Dialogue of Fortitude, praiseth Socrates for his manhood at Delium, in which battle the Athenians were overthrown by the Bœotians, and ran all away. also, who was placed in the right wing, was noted for a brave soldier, much better than he was in his lifetime, in the battle at Delium: for when the enemy charged him, he neither fled nor changed countenance: wherefore afterwards, in reward of his valour,Academia was a woody place he had a prize set out for him on purpose, which was a beautiful
