Orphan's Triumph (Robert Buettner) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 2)

For our new boys, alphabetically,

Evan, Grant, and Jereme

Though Father of the great victory, I was laid upon the battlefield of Mantinea, bleeding from my wounds. I commanded my soldiers to lift me up, that I might see my orphans triumph, and I bade them make a lasting peace. But I died too soon to see these things, as all soldiers do.

– Epaminondas’ Lament,

attributed to Xenophon, ca. 364 BC