Pyrrhus throws his enemies off the walls of the Eryx fortress.

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Related Conflict :	Pyrrhic War
Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Phoenician, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: fight back
Third Party (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 22.6Plutarch Pyrrhus 22.6 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Eryx (Erice)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece Roman Republic
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	278 B.C.
Context :	single combat war/military campaign
Motivation :	ambition
Application :	throwing down
Weapon :	bare hands/no weapons
Long-Term Consequence :	victory
Original Text :	ἀντιστάντων δὲ πολλῶν ἀμυνόμενος τοὺς μὲν ἐξέωσε τοῦ τείχους ἐπ᾽ ἀμφότερα καὶ κατέβαλε, πλείστους δὲ περὶ αὑτὸν τῷ ξίφει χρώμενος ἐσώρευσε νεκρούς,
Translation :	Many were the foes against whom he strove; some of them he pushed from the wall on either side and hurled them to the ground, but most he laid dead in heaps about him with the strokes of his sword.
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 :	victim: Plutarch calls the defendors of the fortress "Phoenician" in 22.4. We would call them Carthaginian today. motive: Since Pyrrhus deliberately stormed the wall first, he acted out of ambition. This is mentioned in 22.5. long-term consequence: Pyrrhus takes the fortress. This is mentioned later in the paragraph.
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