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Greek Flags Through The Centuries
With It Or On It
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Spartan Mothers were very proud of their origin and were celebrated for their pithy sayings, such as the proverbial "Ή τάν ή επί τάς" {I tan i epi tas}, that is "With it or on it", meaning that their soldier son should bring his shield back home when he returned from campaign or be brought on it dead; since leaving it behind and running away was equivalent to the worst kind of humiliation.
01-20-2005