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 The Greek forces, led by the Spartan King Leonidas I, found themselves outnumbered by more than a thousand to one. They were dead men and they knew it. They had come not for victory, but to buy time for the rest of Greece to raise their armies and to extract as heavy a toll as they could against the invaders. They succeeded. When commanded by the Persian King Xerxes to lay down their arms, Leonidas responded with a typically laconic Spartan reply:"Μολὼν λάβε!" — "Come and take them!" |
