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Molon Labe?

SilentKnightSilentKnight Member Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
Ive seen the latin phrase "Molon Labe" ALOT lately. What does it mean??????
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  • powdersmokepowdersmoke Member Posts: 3,241
    edited November -1
    King Leonidas, when offered safe passage for he and his men if they would lay down their arms answered "Molon Labe" Which translates "Come and get them."

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    "Molon Labe!" Spartan General-King Leonidas
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  • The DunedanThe Dunedan Member Posts: 632 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When the Persians, under Xerxes I, invaded Greece in 480, about 300 Spartans and 750 Thespians met them at a small pass, north of Athens, called Thermopylai. Roughly 1,000 men opposed Xerxes' army, which is believed to have numbered over 100,000 fighting soldiers, and an equivalent number of support personnel.
    The pass was only about 40 meters wide, and the Greeks, under Leonidas, king of Sparta, held the Persians for 3 days. On the morning of the 3rd day, Leonidas dismissed the Thespians, leaving the Spartans to hold the pass alone so that the Thespians could reinforce a Theban garrison a few miles away.
    It took the Persian army over 6 hours to annihilate the Spartan reargaurd, and in the end, over 20,000 Persians had been slain by only 1,000 Greeks, with several thousand meeting their end at the hands of only 300 Spartan heavy infantry.
    Xerxes was forced to bury his huge numbers of dead, to hide the casualties so that his other soldiers would not be disheartened, and when the Persian army encountered other Greeks a few hours later, they had to be reassured at great length that these were not, in fact, Spartans.

    The phrase "molon labe" comes from the morning of that 3rd day. Xerxes, admiring the Spartans valor, offered Leonidas' men peace and honor if they would surrender and lay down their arms. Leonidas' two words were all he got in reaponse; "Come and take them!"

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  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    We will darken the skies with arrows!
    Good, then we fight in the shade!

    The Persians never would have defeated the Spartans in the pass except that the small group of Thespians sent to watch the goat herder's path above and around the pass, which Leonidas knew the Persians would eventually find, fled for their lives and neglected to warn the Spartans of the flanking manuever. They had intended to fall back to the point where the path met the main trail to continue the fight, but were overcome by sheer numbers trying to defend on two sides.

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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    "small group of lesbians...fled for their lives"

    That figures. [:D][:D][:D]

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  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    [:D][:D][:D]

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