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Just before the battle of Thermopylae, a SpartanPosted by Court Jester
soldier came and reported, that the Persians were
so numerous, that their clouds of arrows darkened the
sun. 'So much the better,' said Leonidas,' for we
shall fight in the shade.'
From The Flowers of Wit by Henry Kett
