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Many famous early Greek epitaphs have been attributed to the poet Simonides; the most notable is the inscription “On the Tomb of the Spartan Dead at Thermopylae”:
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Newstok, S.L. (2009). “Here lies”: Pointing to the “Graue Forme”. In: Quoting Death in Early Modern England. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594784_2
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