"Dic, hospes Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes, Dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur."
-- Cicero's translation of Simonides
Further translation, the way I was taught:
"Traveller, tell in Sparta that you saw us here where we rest, abiding by the sacred laws of the homeland."
ô xein', aggeilon Lakedaimoniois hoti têide keimetha tois keinôn rhêmasi peithomenoi
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