“Come and get them!”

— Leonidas I

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."

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Μολὼν λαβέ Molōn labe!]

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