VIII ON THE SLAIN IN A BATTLE IN THESSALY AESCHYLUS These men also, the steadfast among spears, dark Fate destroyed as they defended their native land rich in sheep; but they being dead their glory is alive, who woefully clad their limbs in the dust of Ossa. IX ON THE ATHENIAN DEAD AT THE BATTLE OF CHALCIS SIMONIDES We fell under the fold of Dirphys, and a memorial is reared over us by our country near the Euripus, not unjustly; for we lost lovely youth facing the rough cloud of war. X ON THE ERETRIAN EXILES IN PERSIA PLATO We who of old left the booming surge of the Aegean lie here in the mid-plain of Ecbatana: fare thou well, renowned Eretria once our country, farewell Athens nigh to Euboea, farewell dear sea. XI ON THE SAME PLATO We are Eretrians of Euboea by blood, but we lie near Susa, alas! how far from our own land. XII ON AESCHYLUS AESCHYLUS Aeschylus son of Euphorion the Athenian this monument hides, who died in wheat-bearing Gela; but of his approved valour the Marathonian grove may tell, and the deep-haired Mede who knew it. XIII ON AN EMPTY TOMB IN TRACHIS EUPHORION Not rocky Trachis covers over thy white bones, nor this stone with her dark-blue lettering; but them the Icarian wave dashes about the shingle of Doliche and steep Dracanon; and I, this empty earth, for old friendship with Polymedes, am heaped among the thirsty herbage of Dryopis. XIV ON THE GRAVE OF AN ATHENIAN AT MEROË AUTHOR UNKNOWN Straight is the descent to Hades, whether thou wert to go from Athens or takest thy journey from Meroë; let it not vex thee to have died so far away from home; from all lands the wind that blows to Hades is but one. XV ON THE GRAVE OF AN ATHENIAN WOMAN AT CYZICUS ERYCIUS I am an Athenian woman; for that was my city; but from Athens the wasting war-god of the Italians plundered me long ago and made a Roman citizen; and now that I am dead, seagirt Cyzicus wraps my bones. Fare thou well, O land that nurturedst me, and thou that thereafter didst hold me, and thou that at last hast taken me to thy breast. XVI ON A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR PLATO I am the tomb of one shipwrecked; and that opposite me, of a husbandman; for a common Hades lies beneath sea and earth.