Death & Dying
Book IX, 293
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Xerxes, looking on the great frame of self-slain Leonidas, clothed it in a purple cloak. Then Sparta’s great hero called from the dead: “I accept not the reward due to traitors. My shield is the best ornament of my tomb. Away with the Persian frippery, and I shall go even to Hades as a Spartan.”
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Thessalonica, Philippus of. “Book IX, 293.” Translated by W. R. Paton. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/philippus-thessalonica/49/.
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