"[Word-for-word translation] O stranger, announce to the Lacadaemonians [Spartans] that here We lie, to their words [or laws] obedient."
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Simonides of Ceos
Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 BC – 469 BC) was a Greek lyric poet.
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