While in the comic Leonidas planning a twisted scheme to take the life of Xerxes in a final attack face to face, history tells us it was perhaps a bit less epic.
When morning came and cleared the situation, the Persians, seeing the number of the Greeks was small, looked with contempt, but not engage the enemy directly since they were afraid of their value, but which were surrounded by the sides and back and, throwing arrows and javelins everywhere, all shot. So ended his days soldiers who kept Leonid the passage of Thermopylae .
(The translation is by Juan José Esbarranch, and is from the book The Battle of Thermopylae .)
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