Variant translations: — Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie. — Stranger, go tell the men of Lacedaemon That we, who lie here, did as we were ordered. — Stranger, bring the message to the Spartans that here We remain, obedient to their orders. — Oh foreigner, tell the Lacedaemonians That here we lie, obeying their words. — Go, tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law we lie. — Go, tell the Spartans stranger passing by, that here, obediehttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simonides_of_Ceos