A YOUNG HERO'S EPITAPH.
Dioscorides (Third Century B. C.)
Home to Petana comes Thrasybulus lifeless on his shield, seven Argive wounds before. His bleeding boy the father Tynnichos lays on the pyre, to say:—"Let your wounds weep. Tearless I bury you, my boy—mine and my country's."
Translation of Talcott Williams.