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To: lorrie coey who wrote (14975)	3/12/2000 10:14:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Memes have not taken over our brains: calendarlive.com

To: lorrie coey who wrote (14975)	3/12/2000 12:23:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 769670

No doubt all you say, as usual, is true. "Didn't Rome have a killing force made up of soldiers who saw male to male relations as superior to heterosexuality, [which was for breeding purposes only]?" I've never heard of this, you may refer to the "Sacred Band" of Thebes under Epaminondas -- reputed to be the best and noblest soldiers of the age and all sworn homosexual lovers. They fell at last at Cheronea. [edit] The Sacred Band of Thebes This band of men of noble blood, 300 in number, who had exchanged an oath of love and friendship, was formed by Gorgidas...The sacred band proved itself brilliantly in the battle of Mantinea, in which Epaminondas fell with Cephisodorus, and the traditions of the gallant band maintained themselves until the defeat at Cheronea, in which the flower of Greek freedom was brokem. When the victor, Kind Philip of Macedon, surveyed the field of battle and saw that all the bodies of the 300 had fatal wounds in their breasts, he could not suppress his tears and says: "woe to them who think evil of such men". [Licht 296; Plutarch, Pelopidas 18 ]. www.bway.net