...broken, and they had only their swords left, the enemy began to press in between them-. Leonidas was one of the first that fell, and around his body the battle...Simonides, who also celebrated the glory of the heroes of Thermopylae in a noble ode, of which the following fragment is still extant : — " Of those who at...

...another to the memory of the Spartans alone, with an inscription which has been thus translated : ' Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie.' A third monument, with a lion, was erected in honour of Leonidas, on the spot where the last stand...

...honour of Leonidas. Another monument, erected near the spot, contained the memorable inscription : u Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie." While Leonidas had been fighting at Thermopylae, the Greek fleet had also been engaged with the Persians...

...worse than Sythian cold ? Yet out of that city the barbarian flees hither. 5. For Elegiac couplet. Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. THE COLLEGE, INVERNESS. JULY, 1879. 1. Conjugate promo, liabeo, dico, monco, facio, ulciscor, cupio,...

...over the graves of those who perished there might be written a parody of the distich of Simonides : ' Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.' One man escaped from Thermopylae; the Greeks met him with reproaches. Nowadays it appears he would...

...missiles and killed to a man. $ 1 5. On the hillock, where the Greeks made their last stand, a marble fcon was set up in honour of Leonidas. Two other monuments...of these epigrams were probably written by the poet Simonidcs, who also celebrated the glory of the heroes of Thermopylae in a noble ode, of which the...

...Vol. xxxir. p. 970. , ponnesus, it was now Sparta's turn to take the lead. This is the epigram : — " Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie." There happens to be a various reading in the second line of the Greek, which makes it doubtful whether...

...greatness of Sparta ? Was it not revealed on that epitaph over the Three Hundred at Thermopylae — " Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie ! " Wherein lay the true majesty of Rome ? Was it not on the solid bases of filial and of national...

...The most celebrated of these epigrams is, however, that on the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae : " Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie." We have also the following fragment of a hymn by Simonides upon the same subject : " Of those at famed...

...jacentes, dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur. An English translator has succeeded better : — ' Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie'. 15. OV'к ?rXi¡ — 'Did not stoop to', 'had not the heart to', cf. /nj rXjjs ,ne irpoaovvai, Eurip....