Two dead warriors

Not very seasonal, I know. Two epitaphs for men killed in battle, the first from Attica in the sixth century, the second from Eretria in the fourth.

IV

Pause here and grieve beside a dead man’s tomb,
Croesus’, whom long ago the war-god slew
As he was in the forefront of the fight.

VIII

The world will never lack a monument
To tell your quality, Lysandrides:
You call a witness we must all believe,
Ares, who made you king of all the field;
Conquered by Fate, in death you gifted fame
To Andros, island garlanded by sea.