...here fought with three millions of the foe." Another couplet, intended for the Spartans, ran thus: " Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie." In the meantime, the Greek fleet under Eurybiades had had a terrible battle with the Persian armament...

...become not certainly greater, but more complex and subtle. The Spartan sentiment at Thermopylae 1 — ' Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie,' is the same for the English citizen when the crucial test calls for it, though he was hardly aware...

...endurance, American skill, continually pitted against American manhood, courage, endurance and skill. "Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie." — Simonedes, translated by Sterling. are the words upon the monument at Thermopylae, where 300 were...

...Cicero : Die hospes Spartae nos te hie vidisse jacentes Dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur ; and by Bowles : Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. The epitaph was thus adapted by Edmund Garrett for English use : Tell England, you that pass our monument,...

...Cicero : Dic hospes Spartae nos te hic vidisse jacentes Dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur , and by Bowles : Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we He. The epitaph was thus adapted by Edmund Garrett for English use : Tell England, you that pass our...

...the epigram of Simonides in the Greek Anthology (vii. 249) on the fallen heroes (English version by Bowles) : — " Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie."222 Lord Neaves223 writes: "This Spartan obedience, which Simonides long ago celebrated, is that...

...The simple epitaph inscribed over their place of burial in the pass is their best commendation : " Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to her laws, we lie." Thermopylae To-day. — You may travel to Thermopylae by the high road from Livadhia...

...hundred myriads stand. This is the inscription common to all ; the Spartans have one for themselves : Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by. That here obedient to their words we lie. That is for the Lacedaemonians, and this for the seer: Here fought and fell Megistias,...

...are of remarkable beauty and power. Familiar is the couplet on the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae: Go, tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie. — BOWLES. Cicero's translation (Tusc. Disp. 1. 101) is of interest: Die, hospes, Spartae, nos te...

...Leonidas and his men : xe[(j.e0a TOI<; xsivtov pY)[ which have been thus, somewhat freely, translated : Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. The parody is entitled ' War Graves,' and it throws some light upon the opinions of the new generation...