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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

On the Athenian Dead at Platæa: Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.)

By The Greek Anthology

Translation of John William Mackail

IF to die nobly is the chief part of excellence, to us out of all men Fortune gave this lot; for hastening to set a crown of freedom on Greece, we lie possessed of praise that grows not old.