This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I h… - Steven Pressfield

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This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield.

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Steven Pressfield (born September 1943) is an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays.

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