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On the Dead in a Battle in Boetia

VI
ON THE DEAD IN A BATTLE IN BOEOTIA
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O Time, all-surveying deity of the manifold things wrought among mortals, carry to all men the message of our fate, that striving to save the holy soil of Greece we die on the renowned Boeotian plains.



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