Then we shall fight in the shade.
O xein', angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tede keimetha tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi.
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Leonidas I
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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