Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.
ペルシア人の矢が太陽を覆い隠すと聞いて「それは良い、日陰で戦える」と答えた。
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The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae
The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae (480 BCE), buying Greece the time it needed to organize against the Persian invasion. Leonidas transformed a tactical defeat into a strategic victory and a moral monument — proving that the manner of fighting matters as much as the outcome.
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