When someone sought to know why he forbade assaults on walled places, he said, ‘So that valiant men may not suffer death at the hands of a woman or a child or some such person.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Comparison of Lysander and Sulla, 477 D. As a matter of fact, the Spartans were quite without ability to attack a walled town, as is clear from Herodotus, ix. 70, and Thucydides, i. 102.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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