`  == Spartan Army page. ==  The shield was the heaviest you're right. The fact stands though that it was dishonorable for a spartan to drop his shield or not come back with. The sentence, before the one that I have changed twice, contradicts the sentence after it. The mothers of Spartan Soldiers said ``With it, or on it.`` The ``Spartan Hoplite`` page also contradicts the Spartan Army page. Throwing a Spartan's shield away was not acceptable. In the end, a Spartan would not get rid of his shield until he had dropped everything else; which includes his Breastplate and other self-protection objects. The reason I say this is because a Spartans shield not only protected that individual Spartan, but all the Spartans around him. I am going to change it back to being the ``last`` thing that would be dropped.    Taylor Brown`