 By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand: By this directed to thy native shore The merchant shall convey his freighted store; And when our fleets are summon'd to the fight, Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in...  Comicorum graecorum fragmenta - Seite 2351840 - 275 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Warren Fabens - 1853 - 264 Seiten
...veins, and great men have desired that their last sleep might be within the sound of its surgings. “By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand.” Can it be possible that there is concealed within its depths, a life, massive, solemn, eternal, yet... | |
 | William Smith - 1854 - 676 Seiten
...of Athens. Hence we find in an ancient epigram, supposed to have been inscribed upon his tomb :— " By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument,...convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets are summoned to the right, Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight." Themistocles is one of those characters... | |
 | William Smith - 1855 - 708 Seiten
...Athens. Hence we find in an ancient epigram, supposed to have been inscribed upon his tomb : — " By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument,...convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets are summoned to the fight, Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight." Themistocles is one of those characters... | |
 | William Peter - 1856 - 590 Seiten
...and, as you may prove, A statue ; but his statues speak and move. ON THE TOMB OF THEMISTOCLES. Вт the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument,...convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets are summoned to the fight, Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight. CALLISTRATUS. [Aboot 430 В. С.]... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 Seiten
...invasion, died BC 465, aged about 65. There are upon his tomb a few lines by Plato, thus translated :— "By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument,...convey his freighted store ; And when our fleets are summoned to the fight, Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight." Cumberland's Observer. HANNIBAL,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 598 Seiten
...region known) The men of Persia can attest, Taught by thyself at Marathon. OS THE TOMB OF THEJIISTOCLES. By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stund. By this directed to thy native shore, Tho merchant shall convey liis freighted store; And when... | |
 | Cornelius Conway Felton - 1867 - 582 Seiten
...where that great event took place. An ancient inscription commemorated the illustrious Athenian : — " By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand ; By this direction, to thy native shore The merchant shall convey his freighted store; And when our fleets are... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 Seiten
...greatness of Athens. See " The Tale of the Great Persian War," by Rev. GW Cox. EPITAPHS FROM THE So also BY the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument,...fight, Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight. ' Dioscorides, Jac. Bk. vii. Ep. 434. EIGHT sons Demasneta at Sparta's call Sent forth to fight; one... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 898 Seiten
...lation than I can give : — ' By the tea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument, Themìstocles, vt c_ / l pxZc v ҂ S # \e tm m q i ta' M \[ ( VX/ c «tore ; And when our fleets are summoned to the fight Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight.'... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 Seiten
...region known) The men of Persia can attest, Taught by thyself at Marathon. ON THE TOMB OF THEMISTOCLES. By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, Thy monument,...Themistocles, shall stand. By this directed to thy native shor x e, The merchant shall convey his freighted store; And when our fleets are summoned to the fight,... | |
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