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| When asked to lay down their arms, (mo-lone lah-veh) was the response King Leonidas I of Sparta gave to Xerxes I of Persia. At the Battle of Thermopylae, the 300 Spartans delayed the vastly larger Persian army for three days. To this day, their moral victory inspires people not to surrender. |
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