XI
ON THE SAME
PLATO

We are Eretrians of Euboea by blood, but we lie near Susa, alas! how
far from our own land.


XII
ON AESCHYLUS
AESCHYLUS

Aeschylus son of Euphorion the Athenian this monument hides, who died
in wheat-bearing Gela; but of his approved valour the Marathonian
grove may tell, and the deep-haired Mede who knew it.


XIII
ON AN EMPTY TOMB IN TRACHIS
EUPHORION

Not rocky Trachis covers over thy white bones, nor this stone with her
dark-blue lettering; but them the Icarian wave dashes about the
shingle of Doliche and steep Dracanon; and I, this empty earth, for
old friendship with Polymedes, am heaped among the thirsty herbage of
Dryopis.


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