Simonides

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides - Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae
Go tell the Spartans,
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie.
Simonides - from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras
Not even the gods fight against necessity.

- Simonides