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Why does leonidas have so much confidence in spartan women? what message he is sending to xerxes?

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Before invading, Xerxes implored the Spartan king Leonidas to surrender his arms. Leonidas famously replied, “Come and take them” (“Molon labe”). Xerxes intended to do just that and thus moved toward Thermopylae.
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