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Dilios
Multiple Characters
Persian King Xerxes
Queen Gorgo
Spartan King Leonidas

View Quote Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in hell!

View Quote We do what we were trained to do. What we were bred to do. What we were born to do.

View Quote [To Gorgo] It would take more than the words of a drunken adolescent girl to rob me of my desire for you.

View Quote There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories. Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned, and every Greek historian and every scribe shall have their eyes put out and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta or Leonidas will be punishable by death. The world will never know you existed at all!

View Quote They have served the dark will of Persian kings for five hundred years. Eyes as dark as night, teeth filed to fangs. Soulless. The personal guard to King Xerxes himself. The Persian warrior elite. The deadliest fighting force in all of Asia: the Immortals.

View Quote [After being threatened with the deaths of the Spartan women] Clearly you don't know our women. I might as well have marched them up here, judging by what I've seen.

View Quote Spartans! Prepare for glory!

View Quote Come, Leonidas. Let us reason together.

View Quote [To Leonidas] Instead ask yourself: "What should a free man do?"

View Quote Your lips can finish what your fingers have started. [Preceding the sex scene]

View Quote [Response to Daxos, an Arcadian, saying their choices were to retreat, surrender, or die] Well, that's an easy choice for us, Arcadian. Spartans never retreat! Spartans never surrender!

View Quote Dawn: whips crack, barbarians howl. Those at the back cry, "Forward!" Those at the front cry, "Back!"

View Quote [Xerxes is brought to Leonidas on a massive gold throne carried on the back of his servants] Let me guess. You must be ... Xerxes.

View Quote Today, no Spartan dies!

View Quote [The ground begins to shake and small rocks roll off the cliffside]
Captain: Earthquake?
Leonidas: No, Captain: battle formations.