Man of War - "Come back with your shield - or on it" (Plutarch, Mor.241) was supposed to be the parting cry of mothers to their sons. Mothers whose sons died in
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Plutarch Quote: “A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, “As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shie...”
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