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The sacred and ancient festival.
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Sparta wages no warat the time of the Carneia.
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Sparta will burn!
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Her men will die at arms...
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...and her women and childrenwill be slaves or worse.
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Now, we will block the Persian coastal assault...
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...by rebuilding the great Phocian Wall.
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And from there, we will funnel them intothe mountain pass we call the Thermopylae.
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Now, in that narrow corridor,their numbers will count for nothing.
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And wave after wave of Persian attack will smash against Spartan shields.
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Xerxes' losses will be so great,his men so demoralized...
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...he will have no choicebut to abandon his campaign.