Gun blogger Top of the Chain got himself inked for his birthday.
I think it looks awesome!
For those of you not familiar to the phrase "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ", it means "Come and take them!". The Spartans were said to have said it in reply to the Persian order to surrender their weapons.
Happy Birthday buddy, I hope you have a good one.
It looks like some things have been lost in translation. here is the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe
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the Italians and the Germans in world war II
the comunists in Ucraine at 1917-8 etc
When our foes have greater forces than us and they ask us to surrender , it is a tradition to respond this way . This phrase is a symbol of sucrifice . (and many times we did win)
I think you have something simmilar
Death before surrender .
0 0Actualy it is a common frase in greek defensive war tradition .
Exactly the same or diferent frases with the same meaning .
We used it many times through our history against the persians , the arabs , the romans , the turks
(put this one first)
0 0I remember reading one of the armed services (either uscg or usmc) new tattoo policy and that phrase is banned.
0 0Very cool. I’ve seen window decals with the same thing.
0 0Thank you ever so much.
0 0Jeremiah, what would the whole phrase be?
0 0Here’s my birthday Molon Labe tattoo from earlier this year:
http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2009/04/come-and-take-them.html
0 0Chris, awesome 
0 0It actually is just two imperative words reading “come take” he’s missing two words: kai and autous.
0 0Jeremiah, you are correct. I meant the English meaning of the phrase, not the literal translation.
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Actualy it is a common frase in greek defensive war tradition .
Exactly the same or diferent frases with the same meaning .
We used it many times through our history against the persians , the arabs , the romans , the turks
(put this one first)
(folow up coment)
the Italians and the Germans in world war II
the comunists in Ucraine at 1917-8 etc
When our foes have greater forces than us and they ask us to surrender , it is a tradition to respond this way . This phrase is a symbol of sucrifice . (and many times we did win)
I think you have something simmilar
Death before surrender .
It looks like some things have been lost in translation. here is the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe
I remember reading one of the armed services (either uscg or usmc) new tattoo policy and that phrase is banned.
Very cool. I’ve seen window decals with the same thing.
Here’s my birthday Molon Labe tattoo from earlier this year:
http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2009/04/come-and-take-them.html
Chris, awesome
Jeremiah, what would the whole phrase be?
Thank you ever so much.
It actually is just two imperative words reading “come take” he’s missing two words: kai and autous.
Jeremiah, you are correct. I meant the English meaning of the phrase, not the literal translation.