"The Sacred Band [of #Thebes], we are told, was first formed by #Gorgidas, of 300 chosen men, to whom the city furnished exercise and maintenance and who encamped in the Kadmeia. But some say that this band was composed of lovers and beloved."

Plutarch, The Parallel Lives

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