Hoc loci Leonidas, nobilis Spartanus, occurrit, cuius proposito opere exitu nihil fortius: nam cum trecentis civibus apud Thermopylas toti Asiae obiectus gravem illum et mari et terrae Xerxen nec hominibus tantum terribilem sed Neptuno quoque compedes et caelo tenebras minitantem, pertinacia virtutis ad ultimam desperationem redegit.
At this point Leonidas, the famous Spartan, comes to mind. Nothing could be braver than his resolve, his act, his death. With three hundred compatriots he had to face all Asia at Thermopylae and by determined valour he reduced Xerxes, that bully of sea and land, not only terrible to men but threatening even Neptune with chains and the sky with darkness, to ultimate desperation.
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