"O sons of the Greeks, go on! Free your fatherland, and free your children, your wives, and the shrines of your paternal gods, and the tombs of your ancestors! Now the struggle is for all!"
— Greco-Persian Wars

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Aeschylus, The Persians, quoted in Aeschylus, Persians and Other Plays, translated by Christopher Collard (2008), pp. 13-14