So not only did they kick the living hell out of everyone they fought, but they were smart asses while doing it?
Monday, June 11, 2012
In reading Sparta at War: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns 550-362 BC I came across this interesting passage: "and Spartans devotion to Laconic speech - their peculiar form of eloquence, substituting pithy responses to lengthy discussions - produced . . . "
So not only did they kick the living hell out of everyone they fought, but they were smart asses while doing it?
So not only did they kick the living hell out of everyone they fought, but they were smart asses while doing it?
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