Zopyrus cuts Pyrrhus' head off.

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Related Conflict :	Battle of Argos
Perpetrator (Person) :	Zopyrus, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 34.3Plutarch Pyrrhus 34.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Argos (Argos)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	272 B.C.
Context :	battle war/military campaign
Motivation :	ambition following orders
Application :	decapitating
Weapon :	sword
Original Text :	Ζώπυρος δέ τις τῶν παρὰ Ἀντιγόνῳ στρατευομένων καὶ δύο ἢ τρεῖς ἕτεροι προσδραμόντες καὶ κατανοήσαντες εἴς τινα θυρῶνα παρείλκυσαν αὐτὸν ἀρχό μενον ἐκ τῆς πληγῆς ἀναφέρεσθαι, σπασαμένου δὲ τοῦ Ζωπύρου μάχαιραν Ἰλλυρικὴν ὡς τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτεμοῦντος ἐνέβλεψε δεινόν, ὥστε τὸν Ζώπυρον περίφοβον γενόμενον, καὶ τὰ μὲν τρέμοντα ταῖς χερσί, τὰ δὲ ἐπιχειροῦντα, θορύβου δὲ καὶ ταραχῆς μεστὸν ὄντα, μὴ κατ᾽ ὀρθόν, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὸ στόμα καὶ τὸ γένειον ἀποτέμνοντα βραδέως καὶ μόλις ἀποσπάσαι τὴν κεφαλήν,
Translation :	And when Zopyrus drew an Illyrian short-sword with which to cut off his head, Pyrrhus gave him a terrible look, so that Zopyrus was frightened; his hands trembled, and yet he essayed the deed; but being full of alarm and confusion his blow did not fall true, but along the mouth and chin, so that it was only slowly and with difficulty that he severed the head.
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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