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On the Athenian Dead at Platæa: Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.)

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IF to die nobly is the chief part of excellence, to us out of all men Fortune gave this lot; for hastening to set a crown of freedom on Greece, we lie possessed of praise that grows not old.

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