[SoldierMedic]

I was taught that the babies were left on a hillside. Still, it’s all interesting.

[stuartcr]

And dragged off by animals. It wouldn’t be a surprise that none of the bones were found. I imagine a hungry wolf would pretty much eat everything when it came to a newborn, probably chew up the bones and all.

[Ramius]

From my handy latin phrasebook:

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

"In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags."

Just tryin' ta be helpful.

[GoLightly]

I was taught that the babies were left on a hillside.

Probably easier to fire up the troops to go to battle against "guys who kill their own babies", cuz then you're not just going to war to defend yourself & your people, but you're also going to crush evil people.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

And not just in Sparta.

You could call the practice “completed birth abortion”.

[nonsporting]

I was taught that the babies were left on a hillside. Still, it’s all interesting.

"Exposure" was a common form of late term abortion (full-birth abortion) for both the Greeks and Romans.

I would imagine the "bones" have been ingested and passed by animals.