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so you got to do it.
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The losing side must come to the winning side
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and they must ask permission to
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pick up their dead and bury them.
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Typically, that is granted and they can then do it,
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but they are of course humbling themselves by making the request
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and coming down under the orders of the winners
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and taking their dead away and being buried.
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So it's very, very clear who won and who lost and that's--
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I think it's a very important point because Greek hoplite warfare,
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which is the characteristic warfare of the Greeks
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from the eighth century on into the fourth,