A Quote by – Simonides of Ceos

Topic of this Quote:

Author Name:

Simonides of Ceos

Born As:

Simonides of Ceos

Other Names:

Born:

556

Died:

468 
Herodotus - Histories.

Epitaph on the Cenotaph of Thermopylae, recorded by Herodotus.

Note: There is a long unsolved dispute around the interpretation of the word rhemasi, such as laws, words or orders.

Variant translations:

Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here obedient to their laws we lie.

Stranger, go tell the men of Lacedaemon
That we, who lie here, did as we were ordered.

Stranger, bring the message to the Spartans that here
We remain, obedient to their orders.

Oh foreigner, tell the Lacedaemonians
That here we lie, obeying those words.                          
O xein!, angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti teide
keimetha tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi.