As some of you may know, my job here involves working with the Special Operations Forces. The have an interesting motto, the Greek phrase Molōn labe! which means "Come and take them!". This was reportedly the defiant response of King Leonidas I of Sparta to Xerxes I of Persia at the onset of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC). Xerxes, whose forces vastly outnumbered the Spartans and their allies, offered to spare the lives of Leonidas and his few thousand warriors if they would only surrender and lay down their weapons. It corresponds roughly to the modern equivalent English phrase “over my dead body” or "bring it on". Got to love these SOF guys!
I might have to watch “300” again to see if Gerard Butler actually says that line in the movie.
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