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.
III ON THE SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLAE PARMENIO
Him, who over changed paths of earth and sea sailed on the mainland and went afoot upon the deep, Spartan valour held back on three hundred spears; be ashamed, O mountains and seas.
IV ON THE SAME SIMONIDES
O passer by, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here obeying their orders.
V ON THE DEAD IN AN UNKNOWN BATTLE MNASALCAS
These men, in saving their native land that lay with tearful fetters on her neck, clad themselves in the dust of darkness; and they win great praise of excellence; but looking on them let a citizen dare to die for his country.
VI ON THE DEAD IN A BATTLE IN BOEOTIA AUTHOR UNKNOWN
O Time, all-surveying deity of the manifold things wrought among mortals, carry to all men the message of our fate, that striving to save the holy soil of Greece we die on the renowned Boeotian plains.