Pyrrhus plunders in Italy.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Italic, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: losses
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 17.5Plutarch Pyrrhus 17.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Italia (Italy)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	280 B.C.
Context :	plunder war/military campaign
Motivation :	economical tactical/strategical political
Original Text :	καὶ χώραν πολλὴν διεπόρθησε, καὶ προῆλθεν ὅσον μὴ πλέον σταδίων τριακοσίων ἀποσχεῖν τῆς Ῥώμης.
Translation :	he also wasted much territory, and advanced until he was within three hundred furlongs' distance from Rome.
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. This happened directly after his victory at Heraclea. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pyrrhus-e1015710
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