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| 15 | 229 | They cannot View more quotes about pass">pass under the horizontal spear, a weapon of their enemy, without lowering their heads and bending their backs. |
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| 15 | 226 | "Did you march them beneath a yoke?" I asked. |
| 15 | 227 | This is usually formed of three spears, two upright and the third bound horizontally across the first two. |
| 15 | 228 | The prisoners are then usually marched in a long line, two abreast, between the uprights. |
| 15 | 229 | They cannot pass under the horizontal spear, a weapon of their enemy, without lowering their heads and bending their backs. |
| 15 | 230 | Some warriors choose to die rather than do this. |
| 15 | 231 | A similar yoke is sometimes used for the captive women of a city, but it is set much lower, usually such that they must pass under it on their belly. |
| 15 | 232 | After all, they are not men; they are women. |