Religion
Book VI, 84
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)
This bossed fragment of his shield, which, when fighting gloriously, he held on his left arm, did Nicagoras dedicate to Zeus; but all the rest of it the darts and stones as thick as hail and the edge of the sword cut away. Yet though thus hacked all round in his martial hand it was preserved by Nicagoras and preserved Nicagoras. Looking on this shield one shall read the perfect observance of the Spartan law, “Meet undaunted the battle shock.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Silentiary, Paul the. “Book VI, 84.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paulus-silentiarius/49/.
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