Well, I guess not, they do two things;

我觉得他们可能做两件事情
they fight and they prepare to fight. That's it;

战争以及备战也就是说
they are soldiers. They do nothing else.

他们是军人他们不做其它的事情
They have no economic function whatsoever.

他们没有经济或者其它职能
Now, it wasn't always so, there is--well,

不过并非总是如此也有...
before I tell you the story as we tell it today

在我告诉你们今天所要讲述的历史前
based on modern interpretations,

基于现代诠释理念
let me tell you what the Greeks and the Spartans said about it.

我来讲讲希腊人和斯巴达人是怎么说的
They said at one point back there in those early days,

他们说在很早之前
there was a man called Lycurgus,

有一个叫做利库尔戈斯的人
who brought laws to Sparta and set up the regime of Sparta

为斯巴达带来了法律并且建立了斯巴达政权
as we will know it in the sixth and the fifth centuries.

该政权在前六世纪和前五世纪时出现