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.


VII
ON A SLAIN WARRIOR
ANACREON

Valiant in war was Timocritus, whose monument this is; but Ares spares