Fix missing escaping in 06bbcd6b76. Reported by Vladislav, patch by Phormio.

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"In soft regions are born soft men." - Herodotus ("The Histories", IX. 122)
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power." - Herodotus ("The Histories", IX. 16)
"Although he \[Xerces] had plenty of troops he had few men." - Herodotus ("The Histories", VII. 210)
"The Lacedaemonians [Spartans] fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs." - Herodotus ("The Histories", VII. 211)
"The Lacedaemonians \[Spartans] fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs." - Herodotus ("The Histories", VII. 211)
"Being informed \[...] that when the Barbarians discharged their arrows they obscured the light of the sun by the multitude of the arrows, he \[Dienekes] \[...] said that their guest \[...] brought them very good news, for if the Medes obscured the light of the sun, the battle against them would be in the shade and not in the sun." - Herodotus describing Dienekes, reputedly the bravest Spartan soldier at Thermopylae (Polybius, "Histories", VII. 226)
"The judgement given to Kroisus by each of the two oracles \[Delphi and Thebes] was the same: If he sent an army against the Persians, he would destroy a great empire." - Herodotus, later mentioning that the empire Kroisos destroyed was his own ("The Histories", I. 53)
"He \[King Darius] asked who the Athenians were, and, being informed, called for his bow, and placing an arrow on the string, shot upward into the sky, saying, as he let fly the shaft: Grant me, Zeus, to revenge myself on the Athenians!" - Herodotus, narrating how the Athenian support for the Ionian revolt caught the wrath of Darius I., the Persian king ("The Histories", V. 105)
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"Themistocles robbed his fellow-citizens of spear and shield, and degraded the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar." - Plato, no friend of the Athenian navy (Plutarch, "Parallel Lives", "Themistocles", sec. 3)
"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days." - Plautus ("The Swaggering Soldier", Act III, scene 1, 146)
"You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal." - Plautus: ("Trinummus", Act II, scene 4, 12)
"He [Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and nothing secure for the cowardly." - Plutarch ("Parallel Lives", "Alexander", sec. 58)
"He \[Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and nothing secure for the cowardly." - Plutarch ("Parallel Lives", "Alexander", sec. 58)
"One \[...] shot an arrow at him with such accuracy and force that it pierced his breastplate and got stuck in his ribs. \[...] Alexander recoiled and sank to his knees. \[...] At last Alexander killed the barbarian. But he received many wounds, at last was struck on the neck with a mace, and leaned against the city wall, his eyes still fixed upon his foes." - Plutarch about the Mallian Campaign ("Parallel Lives", "Alexander", sec. 63)
"When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents for him, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty." - Plutarch, who mentions later that Caesar got his money back and had his captors crucified ("Parallel Lives", "Caesar", sec. 2)
"They \[the Romans] want the centurions not so much to be adventurous and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts." - Polybius ("Histories", VI. 24)