:34:30
Thespians, advance! Attack!
:34:43
- Have you heard?
- Agathon has just told me.
:34:48
We have been betrayed.
:34:52
Take your ships out of the straits at once.
This is our last morning at Thermopylae.
:34:57
I must move the fleet.
But the ships can still take you out of this.
:35:02
No. We shall stay here.
:35:05
What about your wounded?
:35:10
Spartan wounded go home only with victory.
:35:13
In defeat they die with the rest.
:35:18
I would share this day with you, Leonidas.
:35:21
But I must be with the fleet
when it fights again at Salamis.
:35:28
I know you don't put much trust
in omens, Themistocles.
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But last night,
Megistias received a most wondrous vision.
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Megistias, tell him your vision.
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I saw ships burning between two shores.
Many of them.
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With Persian markings on their sails.
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There was Xerxes sitting upon a throne,
his face in gloom,
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listening to the cries of burning men.
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And behind him,
the goddess Athena, all in white,
:35:59
a golden spear in her hand.