Simonides of Ceos Quotes
556 BC–469 BC Greece
Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 BC – 469 BC) was a Greek lyric poet.
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Also known as: Simonides, Simonides of Keos
Random Simonides of Ceos quote
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Not even the gods fight against necessity.
Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife;
A bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.
We count it death to falter, not to die.
Ō xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tē(i)de
keimetha tois keinōn rhēmasi peithomenoi.
Me goatfoot Pan of Arcady—the Median fear,
The Athenian's friend, Miltiades placed here.
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
Here lies Megistias, who died
When the Medes crossed Spercheius' tide.
A great seer, yet he scorned to save
Himself, and shared the Spartans' grave.
[Word-for-word translation]
O stranger, announce to the Lacadaemonians [Spartans] that here
We lie, to their words [or laws] obedient.