What language?
For
theclimber and others--
As I say, I don't know anything about the Greek language, and cannot even testify that MOLON LABE is Greek. But, please go back to top of this topic, first message in the string, at
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=47140&pagenumber=1
and you'll find a great re-telling of the story by
dZ. The way I understand it, our heroes were representatives of the Greek city state of Spartam and one presumes that their official language was some sort of old-timey Greek. Lest anyone attribute some swell foop of deductive reasoning to me, I will note that I read a lot of discussion on another topic about the proper
GREEK alphabet (some more Greek stuff, right there, huh?) and proper font for printing up MOLON LABE.
I personally prefer the Gonzales battle flag, from early in the Texas Revolution, plain white with illustration of The Lone Star, the small cannon in dispute, and the immortal slogan,
COME AND TAKE IT! Now, I understand that this is a little localized for all the RKBA activists, and perhaps a
leeetle antagonistic, and not nearly so classically oriented for the scholarly amongst us.
It is only about 165 years too late to ask, but I'll always wonder if the Gonzales slogan might not have sprung from the MOLON LABE legend. A surprising number of the early Texas Colonists were extremely well educated in the classics.
I am deadly serious about my committment to the RKBA and Second Amendment struggle, but, sometimes, a small amount of levity is in order. In which vein, I must admit, this MOLON LABE stuff is - - -
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(you know durn well what's coming)
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(Wait for it!)
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ALL GREEK TO ME !
Best to all,
Johnny
COME AND TAKE 'EM!
