re: #353 BatGuano

What does Μολὼν λάβε have to do with John Wilkes Booth? Come and take them? Take what?

Take our weapons.

It’s a bunch of keyboard warriors pretending they’re 1) classics scholars, and 2) tough guys.

It’s the answer the Spartans sent back at thermopylae when the persians asked for their weapons. “Come and take them”.

All these assholes learned it because of the movie 300— and by the way, Μολὼν λάβε is now being used as a signature and rallying cry for some of the real right wing extremists at the moment, very frightening people (Stormfront and worse)