Lacedaemon : Laconia in Peloponnesus, of which Sparta was the capital.
... Athenians to reach up from far away. Every one of them perished. The epitaph by Simonides is a short address by the dead to their countrymen of Lacedaemon, which is another name for Sparta: F. L. Lucas has englished it very well — Tell them at Lacedaemon, passerby, That here obedient to their laws we lie. Heroic unadorned pathos wrought into a masterpiece of understatement in thought-form ...
... the Orient. Yet are we fixed in our truth like hills in heaven, Atrides; Greece and her safety and good our passions strive to remember. Not of this stamp was thy brother's speech; such words Lacedaemon Hearing may praise in her kings; we speak not in Thebes what is shameful. Shamefuller thoughts have never escaped from lips that were high-born. We will not send forth earth's greatest to die ...
... may begin with Simonides whose epitaph for the Spartan dead at Thermopylae is immortal for its sensitive understatement: Tell them at Lacedaemon, passer-by, That here obedient to their laws we lie. (Lucas) Dante brings many lines of a vivid delicacy, like these from the passage ...
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