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

By The Greek Anthology

THESE men, having set a crown of imperishable glory on their own land, were folded in the dark clouds of death; yet being dead they have not died, since from on high their excellence raises them gloriously out of the house of Hades.

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