4 of us, and 2000 of them. Piss-poor odds. For them.
Eric S. NylundTags: covenant halo master-chief spartans
What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatrically for a moment. .'The king sleeps in that shithole over there' he replies. 'We sleep in this shithole over here.
Steven PressfieldTags: spartans
O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we
Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.
Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]
Tags: epitaph honor spartans 300 thermopylae
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
Alexander the GreatTags: trust liberation greece slaves barbarians spartans hellenic macedonians
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