[Capt.Michaels]

I looked that up the first time someone posted it. Been thinking recently. Maybe I should have use some spare time, however small that time is, to learn Latin. Something to keep my mind learning and a break for what we are preparing for. Here is a website I found with what appears to add on to the meaning you posted.

http://thefiringline.com/HCI/molon_labe.htm

[EXCH54FE]

YES, I love your web site. Yes learn Latin, Greek, spanish,
Take a trip. Live, Live today for tomorrow may never come.
But when they come for your Guns, fight like Hell and NEVER give in or give up.

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

Come and take them if you can!!
MOLON LABE

[Verginius Rufus]

The phrase is Greek, not Latin.

Molon (accent on the last syllable) is a participle ("coming"), from the verb blosko meaning "to go," or "to come."

Labe (accent on the "e") is an imperative, "take!"

The ancient pronunciation of the "b" (beta) would have been like English "b," not "v" (as in the Modern Greek pronunciation of beta).

So literally, "coming, take!" but in better English "come and take them!"

[yoe]

Excellent! Thanks.