| − | The Spartan women and girls were trained almost as severley as the men and boys. When a Spartan soldier went into battle his mother would hand him his sheild and say "With it or on it." She meant to come home victorious with it on his arm or come home laying on it, dead. | + | The '''Spartan women''' and girls were trained almost as severley as the men and boys. When a Spartan soldier went into [[battle]] his mother would hand him his [[sheild]] and say "With it or on it." She meant to come home victorious with it on his arm or come home laying on it, dead. |