Simonides Σιμωνίδης
poet · Keos, Greece · 556?–468? BC
A poet born on Keos who travelled from city to city making victory songs and epitaphs. He is famous for his short epitaphs for those who died in the Persian Wars.
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480 BC · Handed down as the inscription on the grave of the Spartans who died at Thermopylae
Stranger, tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their words.
ὦ ξεῖνʼ, ἄγγειλον Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.Greek Anthology 7.249
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