Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις

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Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις, ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.

Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae (480 BC), attributed to Simonides; text from the Palatine Anthology (VII, 249), via the Greek Wikisource transcription.

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