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What was the military training of healthy boys in Sparta?

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If he was fit he was taken from his mother at the age of seven to begin rigorous military training. He became a soldier at 20 a citizen at 30 and continued as a soldier until 60. Thus his entire life was spent under rigorous discipline.

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