The 300 Spartans (1962)

Marietta Flemotomos: Woman at Shield Ceremony

Quotes 

• Gorgo, Leonidas' Wife : In the absence of your dead mother, I present you this shield and say to you

  [speaking in Greek] 

  Gorgo, Leonidas' Wife : 'Return with the shield or on it'.

  Woman at Shield Ceremony : What does that mean?

  Ellas, Leonidas' Niece : Either return carrying this shield in victory or carried on the shield in death.