Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, ed. J. O. Burtt, 109

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[109] And so over their graves a testimony to their courage can be seen, faithfully engraved for every Greek to read: to the Spartans:

Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,

That here obedient to their laws we lie.

Simonides And to your ancestors:

Athenians, guarding Greece , subdued in fight

At Marathon the gilded Persians’ might.

¹i. 42):

Dic, hospes, Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes

dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur.

Simonides

Against Leocrates. Lycurgus. ed. J. O. Burtt. London. 1954.

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Against Leocrates (Greek) (Lycurgus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).)

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Κατὰ Λεωκράτους Perseus (Lycurgus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 109 focus

[109] τοιγαροῦν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἠρίοις¹ μαρτύρια ἔστιν ἰδεῖν τῆς ἀρετῆς αὐτῶν ἀναγεγραμμένα ἀληθῆ πρὸς ἅπαντας τοὺς Ἕλληνας, ἐκείνοις μέν·

ὦ ξεῖνʼ, ἄγγειλον Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε

κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων πειθόμενοι νομίμοις,

Simonides τοῖς δʼ ὑμετέροις προγόνοις·

Ἑλλήνων προμαχοῦντες Ἀθηναῖοι Μαραθῶνι

χρυσοφόρων Μήδων ἐστόρεσαν δύναμιν.

Simonides

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Against Leocrates

1. Both epigrams are by Simonides of Ceos (c. 560-470 B.C.). The well-known version of the first given here is that of W. L. Bowles, which has been somewhat modified in the Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation(no. 212). Strabo, who quotes the original ( Strab. 9.4 .), agrees with the wording given by Lycurgus, except that for the first three words he has: ὦ ξέν’ ἀπάγγειλον. Herodotus ( Hdt. 7.228 ) has a slightly different version:

ὦ ξεῖν’ ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις, ὅτι τῇδε κείμεθα τοῖς κείων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι

Lycurgus Against Leocrates 109

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