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that he was born lame; he probably would not have been
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allowed to live had he not come from the royal family,
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but he did and he grew to be an ambitious,
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aggressive Spartan King,
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who I suspect -- I mean, a cheap psychology
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when you have a handicap like that in a society which values
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physical valor and strength, and military success so highly
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as the Spartans did, you're twice as aggressive,
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and twice as ambitious as an ordinary Spartan.
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In any case, that was the way Agesilaus turned out to be.
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Another interesting thing about Agesilaus
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is that he had been the tent mate of Lysander