Marathon
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Plain in Attica; site of the famous battle (490 BC) where the Athenians defeated the Persians. Lacordaire invokes it as a living memory.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— The fields of Marathon remain things of our own age rather than forgotten tombs
"these fields of Marathon and Salamis, instead of being forgotten tombs, things of our own age"