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Acrotatus attacks Ptolemaeus' troops from behind during the siege of Sparta.

Related Conflict :Siege of Sparta
Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Acrotatus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
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    Victim (Person) :
  • Ptolemaeus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Reaction: fight back, Direct Consequence: defeat
  • Victim (Group) :
  • Origin: Cisalpine Gaul, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Reaction: fight back, Direct Consequence: defeat
  • Origin: Chaonian, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Reaction: fight back, Direct Consequence: defeat
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Pyrrhus 28.2 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Sparta (Sparta)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :3 B.C.
    Year :272 B.C.
     
    Context :siege
    war/military campaign
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
     
    Original Text :ἀνασπώντων δὲ τῶν Γαλατῶν τοὺς τροχοὺς καὶ ὑποσυρόντων τὰς ἁμάξας εἰς τὸν ποταμόν, κατιδὼν τὸν κίνδυνον ὁ νεανίας Ἀκρότατος καὶ τὴν πόλιν διαδραμὼν μετὰ τριακοσίων περιῆλθε τὸν Πτολεμαῖον, οὐ συνορώμενος ὑπ᾽: αὑτοῦ διά τινας συγκλινίας, ἕως προσέβαλε τοῖς ἐσχάτοις καὶ μεταβαλόντας ἠνάγκασε μάχεσθαι πρὸς ἑαυτόν, ὠθουμένους ὑπ᾽ ἀλλήλων εἴς τε τὴν τάφρον καὶ περὶ ταῖς ἁμάξαις πίπτοντας, ἄχρι οὗ φόνῳ πολλῷ μόλις ἀνεκόπησαν.
     
    Translation :The Gauls pulled the wheels up and were dragging the waggons down into the river; but the young Acrotatus saw the danger, and running through the city with three hundred men got round behind Ptolemy without being seen by him, owing to some depressions in the ground, and at last fell upon his rear ranks and forced them to turn about and fight with him. And now the Barbarians crowded one another into the trench and fell among the waggons, and finally, after great slaughter, were successfully driven back.
     
    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: Details about the victims are taken from 28.1.
    date: The date is taken from the New Pauly. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pyrrhus-e1015710
     
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    Created at :2013-08-08 : 03:31:20
    Last changed :2020-12-14 : 07:57:39
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00000575
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00000575