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108 They are fine lines, gentlemen, and a lesson too for those who wish to heed them. Such was the courage of the men who used to hear them that they disputed with our city for supremacy; no matter for surprise, since the most gallant feats had been performed by either people. Your ancestors defeated the barbarians who first set foot in Attica, demonstrating clearly the superiority of valor over wealth and courage over numbers. The Spartans took the field at Thermopylae, and, though their fortune was less happy, in bravery they far surpassed all rivals.

109 And so over their graves a testimony to their courage can be seen, faithfully engraved for every Greek to read: to the Spartans: Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,That here obedient to their laws we lie. Simonides And to your ancestors: Athenians, guarding Greece, subdued in fightAt Marathon the gilded Persians’ might. Both epigrams are by Simonides of Ceos (c. 560-470 B.C.). The well-known version of the first given here is that of W. L. Bowles, which has been somewhat modified in the Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation(no. 212). Strabo, who quotes the original (Strab. 9.4.), agrees with the wording given by Lycurgus, except that for the first three words he has: ὦ ξέν’ ἀπάγγειλον. Herodotus (Hdt. 7.228) has a slightly different version:ὦ ξεῖν’ ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις, ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι i. 42): Dic, hospes, Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentesdum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur. Simonides

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