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Killing new-borns in ancient greece and rome
Killing Newborns In ancient greece And Rome They try to justify murder Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25 warn us: There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. In his life of Lycurgus , the Greek historian Plutarch (48-122 ) records that in Sparta in ancient greece , the Spartan elders examined all newborn babies and ordered that any who were not well-built and sturdy were to be killed by leaving them in the bush at the foot of Mount Taygetus: 1 Offspring was not reared at the will of the father, but was taken and carried by him to a place called Lesche, where the elders of the tribes officially examined the infant, and if it was well-built and sturdy, they ordered the father to rear it, and assigned it one of the nine thousand lots of land; but if it was ill-born and deformed, they sent it to the so-called Apothetae.
Killing Newborns In Ancient Greece And Rome They try to justify murder Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25 warn us: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” In his “Life of Lycurgus”, the Greek historian Plutarch (48-122 A.D.)
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