Alla teon, tripophête, moron penphousin Aphênê,
Mousai, patris, Arês, Ellas, eleupheria.[1]
[Footnote 1: By John Williams, Esq.—The following translation of this inscription will not be unacceptable to my readers:—
"Not length of life—not an illustrious birth,
Rich with the noblest blood of all the earth;—
Nought can avail, save deeds of high emprize,
Our mortal being to immortalise.
"Sweet child of song, thou deepest!—ne'er again
Shall swell the notes of thy melodious strain:
Yet, with thy country wailing o'er thy urn,