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 == 'Unquestioning in the performance of their duty,"" == 

 ""Unquestioning in the performance of their duty, Spartan mothers did not give in to sentiment even when faced with a child's death. ""I bore him so that he might die for Sparta,"" one woman said of her son, ""and that is what has happened, as I wished."""" (Plutarch,""Sayings of Spartan Women"") 

 Aren't the quotes in Plutarch's 'Sayings of Spartan Women' generally considered to be a load of crap?"