STRAITS OF THERMOPYL^. 307 
antient authors, there can be no doubt that this ^^j^j' 
was the place of burial alluded to by Herodotus'^, ^ - y ' 
where those heroes were interred who fell in the 
action of TiiERMOPYL.^; and that the Tumulus 
itself is the Polyandhium mentioned by Slraho, poiyan- 
whereon were placed the five stel^ ; one of [bTcreejti 
which contained that thrilling Epitaph^ still xtERML*' 
speaking to the hearts of all who love their ^^^^■ 
country. 
ftHENAnArrEIAONAAKEAAIMONIOISOTITHIAE 
KEIME0ATOI2KEINnNnEI0OMENOINOMIMOI2 
It may be thus rendered into English metre, 
without altering the sense of the original : — 
TO LACED.^MON'S SONS, O STRANGER, TELL, 
THAT HERE, OBEDIENT TO THEIR LAWS, WE FELL! 
The same appellation of Polyandrium, as 
applied to a sepulchre, occurs in Pausanias, with 
(2) Qa<ph7ffi Se ffipi avrou ravrri rrivso £<rs<r»v, xx) Toitt ■T^iri^oy nXiurv- 
rairt, h. t. X. Herodoti Polymuia, lib. vii. cap. 228. p. 455. eA. Gronoviu 
L.Bat. 1715. 
(3) This epitaph is here given from Strabo, (lib. ix. p. 622. ed. Oxon. 
It was composed by Simonides of Ceos. It occurs, with some varia- 
tion, in Herodotus, {ibid.) The words there are : 
n. |er»', uyyiiXn \axih«if/,!fjioi; on riiSi 
KiiU'.Cx, To'i «£/>4)y fTtfAaji ■niloiiivti, 
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