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but at different times in Spartan history you see
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there are people who have managed to lose their kleros
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and when you don't have a kleros
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you don't have the necessary wherewithal
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to make your contribution to the syssition, the mess
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at which you all dine, and when that happens
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you have dropped out of the Spartan citizen body.
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You are no longer a Spartiate, you are something lesser
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and that is a very tough kind of thing
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for a man to have to live in as a Spartan.
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So poverty could keep you out of the system,
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and if for any reason, you had not gone through the agoge