Death & Dying
Book VII, 436
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. II, 1917)
Death & Dying
Some stranger passing gravely by the tomb might say, “Here a thousand Spartans arrested by their valour the advance of eighty myriads of Persians, and died without turning their backs. That is Dorian discipline.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Hegemon. “Book VII, 436.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hegemon/0/.
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Hegemon. “Book VII, 436.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hegemon/0/.