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When the boy was born

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like old Spartans
he was inspected.

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If he had been small
or puny or sickly or misshapen

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he would've been discarded.

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From the time he could stand, he was
baptized in the fire of combat.

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Taught never to retreat,
never to surrender,

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taught that death on the battlefield
in service to Sparta

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is the greatest glory he could
achieve in his life.

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At age seven, as
is customary in Sparta.

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the boy was taken from his mother
and plunged in a world of violence.

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Manufactured by 300 years,
a Spartan warrior society

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to create the finest soldiers
the world has ever known.

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The agoge is its goal.

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It forces the boy to fight,
starves him.

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It forces him to steal.

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And, if necessary,
to kill.

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By rod and lash,
the boy was punished.

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Taught to show no pain,
no mercy.

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Hunts to be tested,
tossed into the wild.

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Let to pit his wits and will
against nature's fury.

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It was his initiation.
His time in the wild.

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For he would return
to his people as Spartan

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or not a ...