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Spartacus did not fight under the banner of any nation. He did not sport fine uniforms. He did not fight for the gods. His tactics were heterodox. His army defied traditional structure. He fought, but not for mere brawling. He wished to be free. This, then, is a warrior: one who takes up arms by choice for an ideal, deeply embraced, suppressed or threatened by violence.

This is the what of the warrior.

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We bow down before no man.

—Spartan heralds to Xerxes at Susa, HERODOTUS, Histories, 7.136

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time or war where every man is enemy to every man, the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.