Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being intheformof God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 2:5^11.

Go, stranger, and tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-Simonides of Ceos
c.480   BC  Epitaph for the Spartan army dead after the Battle of Thermopylae. Quoted in Herodotus Histories, bk.7, ch.228.