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

Inscription for an Altar Dedicated to Artemis

By Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.)

From a careful study of Simonides by John Sterling (Westminster Review, 1838)

THE SONS of Athens here at sea subdued

In fight all Asia’s many-voicèd brood;

And when the Medes had fallen, they built up this—

Their trophy due to maiden Artemis.