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they lived a rather wretched life in Sparta after that situation.
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Similarly, if people were thought
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not to be the children of two Spartans,
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Spartan father, a Spartan mother
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then they were not Spartiates,
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they held an inferior place in that society
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and in a society so riddled with issues of honor and respect,
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you can imagine that was a very big deal.
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Keep that in the back of your mind
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because as we move on in the course
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and as we get into the fifth century especially,
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we will be running into Spartans who fit these categories,