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Philopoemen

Philopoemen of Megalopolis in Arcadia was orphaned at an early age and brought up by one of his father's friends, Cleander. He was attracted to the military life from childhood, despising the then fashionable athletics on the grounds that the training for athletics ran contrary to the training needed for soldiering.

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