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  • Either with it or upon it.

    -Anonymous
    Traditionally saidby a Spartan mother while handing her son his shield when he went to war; he should either return with it (ie as a victor) or on it (ie dead). Plutarch Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, 241f.

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