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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLATAEA: THE ATHENIAN MONUMENT, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poet's Biography
First Line: If valour's best be gallantly to die
Last Line: Laboured, and here in ageless honour lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi
First Line: If valour's best be gallantly to die
Last Line: Laboured, and here in ageless honour lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Monuments; Plataea, Greece; Laspi
IF Valour's best be gallantly to die,
Fortune to us of all men grants it now.
We to set Freedom's crown on Hellas' brow
Laboured, and here in ageless honour lie.
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