And to your ancestors:“Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
That here obedient to their laws we lie.
”Simonides
i. 42):“Athenians, guarding Greece, subdued in fight
At Marathon the gilded Persians' might.
”
“Dic, hospes, Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes
dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur.
”Simonides