 This was for the Lacedaemonians. The seer had the following: The great Megistias' tomb you here may view, Whom slew the Medes, fresh from Spercheius' fords. Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords.  A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands - Sida 37efter Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1891 - 298 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Herodotus - 1860 - 586 sidor
...Lacedaemonians. The seer had the following : — " The great Megistias' tomb you here may view, Whom slew the Medes, fresh from Spercheius' fords. Well...foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords." These inscriptions, and the pillars likewise, were all set up by the Amphictyons, except that in honour... | |
 | Herodotus - 1860 - 588 sidor
...The seer had the following : — " The great Megislias' tomb you here may view, Whom slew the Modes, fresh from Spercheius' fords. Well the wise seer the...foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords." These inscriptions, and the pillars likewise, were all set up by the Amphictyons, except that in honour... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1864 - 482 sidor
...little hillock of the last resistance was placed the figure of a stone lion, in memory of Leonidas, so fitly named the lion-like, and Simonides, at his own...Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scom'd he to forsake his Spartan lords." The names of the 300 were likewise engraven on a pillar at... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 620 sidor
...Simonides, with a separate pillar and epitaph — "The great Megistias' tomb you here may view, Whom slew the Medes, fresh from Spercheius' fords ; Well...foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords." On the hillock where the last stand was made, a marble lion was erected to the memory of Leonidas ;... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 590 sidor
...epitaph — "The great Megistias' tomb you here may view, Whom slew the Medes, fresh from Spereheius' fords ; Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords. " On the hillock where the last stand was made, a marble lion was erected to the memory of Leonidas... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1865 - 612 sidor
...separate pillar and epitaph — " The great Megistias' tomb you here may view, Whom slew the Mcdes, fresh from Spercheius' fords ; Well the wise seer...foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords." On the hillock where the last stand was made, a marble lion was erected to the memory of Leonidas ;... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1867 - 140 sidor
...little hillock of the last resistance was placed the figure of a stone lion, in memory of Leonidas, so fitly named the lion-like, and Simonides, at his own...Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scorn'd he to forsake his Spartan lords." The names of the 300 were likewise engraven on a pillar at... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1873 - 596 sidor
...epitaph — "The great Megistias' tomb yon here may view, Whom slew the Modes, fresh from Spercheins' fords ; Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords." On the hillock where the last stand was made, a marble lion was erected to the memory of Leonidas ;... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 588 sidor
...following: — " The great Megistias' tomb yon here may view, Whom slew the Medea, fresh from Spercheins' fords. Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsake his Spartan lords." These inscriptions, and the pillars likewise, were all set up hy the Amphictyons, except that in honour... | |
 | Herodotus - 1880 - 602 sidor
...following:— " The great Megistias' tomb yon here may view, Whom slew the Medes, fresh from Speroheina' fords. Well the wise seer the coming death foreknew, Yet scorned he to forsako his Spartan lords." These inscriptions, and the pillars likewise, were all set np by the Amphictyons,... | |
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