The young Alcibiades bites an opponent during wrestling.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Alcibiades Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: youth
Victim (Person) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: youth, Activity: other, Direct Consequence: injury
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Alcibiades 2.2Plutarch Alcibiades 2.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Athenai (Athens)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Context :	civilian
Motivation :	self-defence
Application :	other
Weapon :	bare hands/no weapons
Original Text :	ἐν μὲν γὰρ τῷ παλαίειν πιεζούμενος, ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ πεσεῖν ἀναγαγὼν πρὸς τὸ στόμα τὰ ἅμματα τοῦ πιεζοῦντος, οἷος ἦν διαφαγεῖν τὰς χεῖρας. ἀφέντος δὲ τὴν λαβὴν ἐκείνου καὶ εἰπόντος: ‘δάκνεις, ὦ Ἀλκιβιάδη, καθάπερ αἱ γυναῖκες,’ ‘οὐκ ἔγωγε,’ εἶπεν, ‘ἀλλ᾽ ὡς οἱ λέοντες.’
Translation :	He was once hard pressed in wrestling, and to save himself from getting a fall, set his teeth in his opponent's arms, where they clutched him, and was like to have bitten through them. His adversary, letting go his hold, cried: ‘You bite, Alcibiades, as women do!’ ‘Not I,’ said Alcibiades, ‘but as lions do.’
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Lysander and Sulla, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 80), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 2000 (first ed. 1916).
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