Molon Labe
μολὼν λαβέ, pronounced moˈLON laˈVE, and sometimes written in the modern age as ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ or Molon Labe is a truly classical and laconic expression of defiance reportedly spoken by Sparta’s King Leonidas I in response to to Xerxes I of Persia’s demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae. It means simply, “Come and take them!”
Molon Labe – ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – μολὼν λαβέ – Come And Take Them
No matter the orthography, the sentiment is clear and is as true, right, and applicable in the America of 2013 as it was in the Greece of 480 BC. 2493 years don’t change anything of meaning.
The same “offer” is being made to Americans today. Our lives in exchange for our ability to defend both those lives and the liberties that make those lives the lives of free men and women. And the same response must be given to our modern day Xerxes, Obama and to his coterie of Liberal and Progressive gun-grabbers.
Come And Take Them…If You Can
We, the People, the true-born sons and daughters of America, have not rendered offerings of earth and water to our domestic enemies and we are not subject to- or subservient to them.
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January 27th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
How do you get this here electical machine to type in Greek???
January 27th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
What do you mean?
January 28th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
In the above article there there are Greek words. Somehow,if one knows how to do it, we can type in Greek……or probably in any language. And why would DHS order 7000 “AR15s” with selector switches…they ain’t AR15s. Anyone with a little bit of imagination can see something baaaaaad this way comes…..
January 28th, 2013 at 3:30 pm
i just switched fonts, Granny, that’s all on my PC’s end. I did, however have to change my blog database’s character set from UTF-8 to utf8_general_ci to keep WordPress from screwing it up.
January 28th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Yep..no doubt about it…its all Greek to me. Now if you want to harness a couple of Belgian Brownings to 3 gang plow………
January 28th, 2013 at 6:48 pm
January 29th, 2013 at 7:43 am
Yep..but we must plow first then smooth out the furrows with the harrow.Holy cow..a dirt dobber blog…were you 4H or FFA????
January 29th, 2013 at 7:49 am
I don’t favor plowing first if I can get away without doing it. I worked on too many soil surveys and saw the soil compaction effects of repeated plowing.
As to 4H or FFA – Neither, I got into farming do to my grandfather having been a farmer and still do rather extensive gardening despite living in Brooklyn. I just use different techniques.
January 29th, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Been away from the fields for a looong time….do myou know they got some kind of new technique called contour plowing????
January 29th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
January 30th, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Yep…a looooong time. I bet your going to tell me farmers have to pasturize their OWN milk now days……..
January 30th, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Nope. I don’t know nearly enough about the dairy industry to comment upon it that way. Now, if we want to talk beef cattle – especially White Faced Angus – that’s a different story.
January 31st, 2013 at 9:14 am
I don’t think anyone ever heard of a Black Angus ..definitely no White Face type. Some farmers were starting to raise herefords but I don’t think they caught on too well…this was upstate NY
January 31st, 2013 at 10:10 am
Angus, both Black and Red, got pretty popular in the US beef industry and they’re real good in wetter climates and bottom land. The White faced ones, also called brockles and baldies, are the result of X-breeding Angus with Herefords, Simmental, or similar breeds.
April 5th, 2013 at 5:17 pm
Come and get them. There is a parallel between today’s situation and the situation in ancient sparta. The main difference is that the Leonidas and his 300 were fighting for land, family etc. Μολὼν λαβέ, was used not necessarily used about the weapons. Those guys were sacrificing their lives. No one would be willing to do such thing today about this issue.
May 2nd, 2013 at 12:31 pm
Hello,
I really like your Molon Labe graphic with the Greek Helmet and the American Flag in it. Do you have a high resolution version? I want to use it for my background on my computer.
May 2nd, 2013 at 5:04 pm
Thank you but, sadly, I don’t have a larger or higher resolution version of the image.
May 14th, 2013 at 2:02 am
Molon labe has been repeated by many later generals and politicians in order to express an army’s or nation’s determination not to surrender. The motto ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ is on the emblem of the Greek First Army Corps,and is also the motto of United States Special Operations Command Central.The expression “Come and take it” was a slogan in the Texas Revolution. I really like your graphic with the Greek Helmet and American flag in it. Thanks for sharing.