Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1897 — A Classic Find. [ARTICLE]

A Classic Find.

On the marble steps of a peasant’s house on the Island of Salamis have been found two lines of the epitaph composed by the poet Simonides foi the Corinthian soldiers who fell In the sea fight, carved in Corinthian characters. It Is hoped that the burial place of the Corinthians may soon be found.