The army of Pyrrhus and the Romans fight the Battle of Heraclea.

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Related Conflict :	Battle of Heraclea 280BC, Pyrrhic War
Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Person) :	Publius Valerius Laevinus Origin: Roman, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Victim (Group) :	Army of Publius Valerius Laevinus Origin: Roman, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 17.1Plutarch Pyrrhus 17.1 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Herakleia (Heraclea)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece Roman Republic
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	280 B.C.
Context :	battle war/military campaign
Motivation :	political
Original Text :	δεξαμένων δὲ ἐκείνων καὶ συμβαλόντων χρόνον τε πολὺν εἱστήκει τὰ τῆς μάχης ἄκριτα, καὶ τροπὰς ἑπτὰ λέγεται φευγόντων ἀνάπαλιν καὶ διωκόντων γενέσθαι,
Translation :	But they received and engaged him, and for a long time the issue of the battle remained undecided; it is said that there were seven turns of fortune, as each side either fled back or pursued.
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: The date is taken from the New Pauly. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pyrrhus-e1015710
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