228. The men were buried where they fell; and for these, as well as for those who were slain before being sent away 1197 by Leonidas, there is an inscription which runs thus:

“Here once, facing in fight three hundred myriads of foemen,

Thousands four did contend, men of the Peloponnese.”

“Here once, facing in fight three hundred myriads of foemen, Thousands four did contend, men of the Peloponnese.”

This is the inscription for the whole body; and for the Spartans separately there is this: