Pyrrhus' army kills many of Pantauchus' men during the flight.

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Army of Pantauchus Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
Third Party (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 7.5Plutarch Pyrrhus 7.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Aetolia (Aitolia)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	290 B.C.
Context :	battle war/military campaign
Motivation :	following orders tactical/strategical
Original Text :	οἱ δὲ Ἠ πειρῶται τῇ νίκῃ τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπαρθέντες καὶ θαυμάσαντες τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐβιάσαντο καὶ διέκοψαν τὴν φάλαγγα τῶν Μακεδόνων, καὶ φεύγοντας διώκοντες ἀπέκτεινὰν τε πολλοὺς καὶ πεντακισχιλίους ζῶντας εἷλον.
Translation :	Then the Epeirots, exalted by tile victory of their king and admiring his valour, overwhelmed and cut to pieces tile phalanx of the Macedonians, pursued them as they fled, slew many of them, and took five thousand of them alive.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Remark :	date: This battle takes place "a little while" (10.1) before Pyrrhus' expedition into Macedonia, so 290/89 BC.
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