Leonidas słynne cytaty
Molon labe. (grecki)
odpowiedź Leonidasa, gdy Kserkses I nakazał mu złożyć (oddać) broń przed bitwą pod Termopilami.
„Będziemy walczyć w cieniu, a nie w słońcu.”
odpowiedź dana perskiemu posłańcowi, który groził, że armia perska ma wystarczającą liczbę łuczników, by zasłonić strzałami niebo
Źródło: Nigel Cawthorne, Dowódcy i generałowie. Prawdziwe historie, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa, 2014, s. 9
etymologia imienia "Leonidas"
Źródło: Nigel Cawthorne, Dowódcy i generałowie. Prawdziwe historie, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa, 2014, s. 9
Leonidas: Cytaty po angielsku
“Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade.”
It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, "Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade."
Herodotus, in Histories; the remarks of Dienekes have sometimes become attributed to Leonidas.
Misattributed
“Go, stranger, and to Lacedaemon tell
That here, obeying her behests, we fell.”
The words of this famous epigram on the Greek monument at the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, written by Simonides of Ceos, have sometimes been presented as if they were literally words of Leonidas.
Misattributed
“Marry a good man, and bear good children.”
In response to his wife's question of what she should do if he died in battle, as he left for Thermopylae; as quoted in the "Sayings of the Spartan Women" http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Sayings_of_Spartan_Women*.html in the Moralia
Variant translation: Marry a good man, and have good children.
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."
