Leonidas I Quotes

King of Sparta from c. 489 BC to 480 BC

Leonidas (Λεωνίδας) (c. 489 BC – 480 BC) was a king of Sparta, the seventeenth of the Agiad line.

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Native Name: Λεωνίδας

Alternative Names: Leonidas the Brave • Leonidas • Leónidás

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In response to a demand from Xerxes I of Persia that the Spartan army lay down their arms, at the Battle of Thermopylae, as recorded in Plutarch Apophthegmata Laconica, 225c.11 of the Moralia.
Variant: "Come and take them."

Μολὼν λαβέ [Molōn labe!]