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This quote comes after the Spartans’ defeat of Antirhion. The object of that battle was to persuade the Antirhionians to become Sparta’s allies against the anticipated Persian invasion. With this in mind, King Leonidas makes a speech after the battle in which he compares the Persian Xerxes’s kingship to that of the Spartans. Kleomenes, whom he names at the beginning, was Leonidas’s predecessor as King of Sparta and in fact was both Leonidas’s half-brother and father-in-law (Queen Gorgo’s father), as well. To Leonidas, the most important things about Kleomenes and himself are that they don’t shrink from getting bloody alongside…