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.
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Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.--Dienekes at Thermopylae
O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here weAre laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed. ξε_', γγέλλειν _ακεδαιμονίοι_ __ __εκεμεθ, _ο_ κείν_ν ῥμα_ _ειθ_μενοι.[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]