Cockiness to the point of crazy-brave has been a Hellene characteristic down the ages (the Greeks were Hellenes before they were Greeks).
Remember Leonidas and his 300 Spartans? When the warring Persians sent a herald with surrender terms, to tell the Spartans they lay down their weapons, the answer was , “Come and get them,” .
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