Molòn lábe!
"It is not just that the human spirit reacts directly and beyond all argument to a story of sacrifice and courage, as a wine glass must vibrate to the sound of a violin. It is also because, way back and at the hundredth remove, that company stood right in the line of history. A little of Leonidas lies in the fact that I can go where I like and write what I like. He contributed to set us free."
-William Golding
'Go, stranger, and to the Spartans tell
That here, obedient to their word, we fell.'
-William Golding
'Go, stranger, and to the Spartans tell
That here, obedient to their word, we fell.'