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Pyrrhus plunders Laconia.

Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Origin: Lacedaemonian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: losses
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Pyrrhus 30.1 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Lakedaemonia (Laconia)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :3 B.C.
    Year :272 B.C.
     
    Context :plunder
    war/military campaign
    Motivation :economical
    tactical/strategical
    political
     
    Original Text :τὸν δὲ Πύρρον ἔσχε μέν τις ἀλκὴ καὶ φιλοτιμία μᾶλλον διὰ τοὺς προσγεγονότας κρατῆσαι τῆς πόλεως: ὡς δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπέραινε, πληγὰς λαβὼν ἀπέστη καὶ τὴν χώραν ἐπόρθει διανοούμενος αὐτόθι χειμάσαι.
     
    Translation :Pyrrhus, too, was more than ever possessed by a fierce ambition to become master of the city, now that reinforcements had come to it; but since he could accomplish nothing, and met with fresh losses, he went away, and fell to ravaging the country, purposing to spend the winter there.
     
    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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    Created at :2013-08-11 : 02:20:31
    Last changed :2020-12-14 : 08:45:11
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