Salamis
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Island near Athens; site of the naval battle (480 BC) where the Greeks defeated the Persians. Lacordaire invokes it alongside Marathon.
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 and Salamis remain living memories
"these fields of Marathon and Salamis, instead of being forgotten tombs, things of our own age"