“This is the tomb of Megistias renowned, whom the Median foemen,

Where Sperchios doth flow, slew when they forded the stream;

Soothsayer he, who then knowing clearly the fates that were coming,

Did not endure in the fray Sparta’s good leaders to leave.”

“This is the tomb of Megistias renowned, whom the Median foemen, Where Sperchios doth flow, slew when they forded the stream; Soothsayer he, who then knowing clearly the fates that were coming, Did not endure in the fray Sparta’s good leaders to leave.”