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Marathon   /mˈɛrəθˌɑn/   Listen
Marathon

noun
1.
Any long and arduous undertaking.  Synonym: endurance contest.
2.
A footrace of 26 miles 385 yards.
3.
A battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians.  Synonym: battle of Marathon.



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"Marathon" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the three Minorcas, five Cochins, and two Pedigree-unknowns, which were all laying eggs like anything. Another of the Cochins, Maud Eliza, was beginning to get broody, and was being trained for her sitting Marathon on a box of my best golf-balls, and altogether things looked rosy—from Peggy's ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 • Various
... a shoe the length of the locker room, "Talk about marathon races! I'll bet I ran ten or twenty miles up and down the field ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
... may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer ...
— A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Samuel Johnson
... from Mr. Mack of the doings and achievements of the great men whose residence at Serampore has given it a sacredness it will ever retain in the annals of Indian Missions, I felt as a young Greek would feel on being taken to Marathon and Thermopylae. I felt I was entering on a war, where there had been heroes before me, which demanded courage and endurance of a far higher order than had ever been enlisted in the ...
— Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 • James Kennedy
... the Temple of Athena Nike, and close at hand is the site of Phidias' colossal statue of Athena Promachos, the "fighter of the van," made of the spoils taken from the Persians at the battle of Marathon; sixty-six feet high, in full armor, her poised lance was always a landmark ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne


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