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Sparta History
Source: Laconian professionals
(originally from: These were the Greeks" by H.D.Amos and A.G.P. Lang)
There is a story about a Spartan boy who, in order to conceal a fox which he had stolen, hid it beneath his cloak and allowed the fox to gnaw him rather than let the theft be revealed. He died of the wounds. If he had been discovered, the disgrace would not have been in the stealing, but in allowing it to be detected. The boy's actin illustrates the main purpose of the Spartan educational system, which was to produce men capable of showing such bravery as soldiers.
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