Death & Dying
On the Lacedaemonian Dead at Plataea (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Death & Dying
These men having set a crown of imperishable glory on their own land were folded in the dark cloud of death; yet being dead they have not died, since from on high their excellence raises them gloriously out of the house of Hades.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Ceos, Simonides of. “On the Lacedaemonian Dead at Plataea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/simonides/65/.
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Ceos, Simonides of. “On the Lacedaemonian Dead at Plataea (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/simonides/65/.
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