"When Leonidas was in charge of guarding the narrow mountain pass at Thermopylae with just 7,000 allied Greeks in order to delay the invading Persian army, Xerxes offered to spare his men if they gave up their arms. Leonidas replied, "Come and take them" (Greek: Μολών λαβέ, Molon labe). It was adopted as the motto of the Greek 1st Army Corps."