11-14-2007, 09:53 PM
Quote:I believe that the only time elephants ever appeared in the region of Sparta was when Pyrrhus ...
This is true, though it was in support of the would-be Spartan usurper and adventurer Cleonymus. Perhaps the most effective employment of elephants was that of a Spartan who may well have been one of the young men left to face Pyrrus by flower of the Spartan army which had deployed in Crete- Xanthippus.
Do you cover him and Bagradas extensively in your book?
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
