Note 36 — MODERN GREECE.
Reading edition
The inscription composed by Simonides for the Spartan monument in the pass of Thermopylæ has been thus translated:—“Stranger, go tell the Lacedemonians that we have obeyed their laws, and that we lie here.”
Reading edition
The inscription composed by Simonides for the Spartan monument in the pass of Thermopylæ has been thus translated:—“Stranger, go tell the Lacedemonians that we have obeyed their laws, and that we lie here.”