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6. Ἀθηναίων δέ—the inscription placed over the monument of these men in the Ceramicus is in the Brit. Mus.: Hicks, Manual, p. 59. The last of the three stanzas is:
Ἄνδρας μὲν πόλις η:´δε ποθεῖ καὶ δῆμος Ἐρεχθέως, πρόσθε Ποτειδαίας οἳ θάνον ἐν προμάχοις
παῖδες Ἀθηναίων. ψυχὰς δ᾽ ἀντίρροπα θέντες ἠλλάξαντ᾽ ἀρετήν—καὶ πατρίδ᾽ εὐκλέϊσαν.
αὐτῶν—Thuc. had not heard the numbers of the allies who fell.
Commentary on Thucydides Book 1. E. C. Marchant. 1905. London. MacMillan and Company, Ltd.
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