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Simonides - Thermopylae

Author: * Elizandros Lysias - 3 Posts on this thread out of 29 Posts sitewide.
Date: Oct 7, 2005 - 23:07

This is the translation I prefer for the famous epitaph at
Thermopylae:

Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

----- Trans. William Lisle Bowels

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