Death & Dying
Book VII, 73: On Themistocles
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
In place of a simple tomb put Hellas, and on her put ships significant of the destroyed barbaric fleets, and round the frieze of the tomb paint the Persian host and Xerxes—thus bury Themistocles. And Salamis shall stand thereon, a pillar telling of my deeds. Why lay you so great a man in a little space?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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