Editing Epitaph (section)

=== Soldiers ===
{{poemquote|text=Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by
that here, obedient to their law, we lie.
|source=[[Simonides of Ceos|Simonides]]'s [[epigram]] honoring the 300 at [[Battle of Thermopylae|Thermopylae]]}}

{{poemquote|text=Here sleeps at peace a Hampshire Grenadier
Who caught his early death by drinking cold small beer.
Soldiers, be wise at his untimely fall,
And when you're hot, drink strong or none at all.
|source=[[Thomas Thetcher]] tombstone epitaph in [[Winchester Cathedral]]}}

{{poemquote|text=To save your world you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
|source=Epitaph for the [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier|Unknown Soldier]], written by [[W. H. Auden]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/epitaphs/34.htm |title=Famous Epitaph on Unknown Soldier tomb stone |publisher=Famousquotes.me.uk |access-date=2012-03-18}}</ref>}}

{{poemquote|text=When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today
|source=[[Battle of Kohima#Memorial|The Kohima Epitaph]] by [[John Maxwell Edmonds]]}}

{{poemquote|text=There is borne an empty hearse
covered over for such as appear not.
Heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.
|source=[[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier|Unknown Soldier]]'s epitaph, [[Athens]]; passages taken from [[Pericles' Funeral Oration]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury|volume=VIII|author-last=Thucydides|author-link=Thucydides|others=[[Thomas Hobbes]] (translator)|editor-first=William|editor-last=Molesworth|publisher=John Bohn|place=London|date=1843|page=188|chapter=History of the Peloponnesian War 2.34.3| 
chapter-url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0247%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D34}} Available online at the [[Perseus Project]].</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Peloponnesian War|author-last=Thucydides|author-link=Thucydides|translator=Richard Crawley|translator-link=Richard Crawley|publisher=J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton|place=London, New York|date=1910|chapter=2.43.3| 
chapter-url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0200%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D43}} Available online at the [[Perseus Project]].</ref>}}