agoge in a sentence

1. When male Spartans began military training at age seven, they would enter the Agoge system.

2. From the other half, the Spartiate was expected to pay his mess (syssitia) fees, and the agoge fees for his children.

3. The Agoge was designed to encourage discipline and physical toughness and to emphasize the importance of the Spartan state.

4. Descendants of non-Spartan citizens were not able to follow the agoge and Spartans who could not afford to pay the expenses of the agoge could lose their citizenship.