This entry belongs to the lexicon of Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer, free on Kindle Unlimited.
"Come and take them!"
Known only from this scrollFamous response attributed to Leonidas when the Persians demanded the Spartans surrender their weapons.
Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the reason the 300 died. Leonidas used the magic of the gods to bind Kalaxes beneath Taygetus, and the price was his life and his men's. Sixty-two years later a seven-year-old of the agoge falls into the dragon's crypt and inherits the unpaid balance.
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