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SELECT EPIGRAMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY - III

EPITAPHS

 

I
OF THE ATHENIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA
SIMONIDES

If to die nobly is the chief part of excellence, to us out of all men Fortune gave this lot; for hastening to set a crown of freedom on Greece we lie possessed of praise that grows not old.


II
ON THE LACEDAEMONIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA
SIMONIDES

These men having set a crown of imperishable glory on their own land were folded in the dark cloud of death; yet being dead they have not died, since from on high their excellence raises them gloriously out of the house of Hades.

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