Pyrrhus loses a naval battle against the Carthaginians.

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Related Conflict :	Pyrrhic War
Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Carthaginian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: defeat
Victim (Group) :	Fleet of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 24.1Plutarch Pyrrhus 24.1 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Fretum Siculum (Strait of Messina)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece Roman Republic
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	275 B.C.
Context :	naval battle war/military campaign
Motivation :	tactical/strategical political
Long-Term Consequence :	retreat
Original Text :	τῶν δὲ βαρβάρων συστάντων ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν ἀποπλέοντα, Καρχηδονίοις μὲν ἐν τῷ πορθμῷ ναυμαχήσας ἀπέβαλε τῶν νεῶν πολλάς, ταῖς δ̓ ἄλλαις κατέφυγε πρὸς τὴν Ἰταλίαν
Translation :	But the Barbarians combined against him as he was setting sail. With the Carthaginians he fought a sea-fight in the strait and lost many of his ships, but escaped with the rest to Italy
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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