Public Service Annoucnement "Then we will fight in the shade"

[jack]

Public service announcement:

* Whether you like the line or not, "Then we will fight in the shade!" was not made up by Zack Snyder.
* Nor was it made up by Frank Miller.
* It could have been made up by Herodotus. (According to wikipedia, according to Herodotus, according to rumour, Dienekes said it.)

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yep, para 226. A similarly laconic response is attributed to the Spartans when Philip (?or was it Alexander) asked if he should come as friend or foe: "neither"; though I've also seen that attribute to the Molossians, so it could have been one of those things that ancient historians thought too good to pass up.

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

Everything but the Herodotus reference is sort of going over my head - I wouldn't have considered that it was anyone but Diekenes who said it first :)