Alcibiades is killed in front of his house.

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary
Victim (Person) :	Alcibiades Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Reaction: fight back, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Alcibiades 39.3Plutarch Alcibiades 39.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Melissa (Melissa)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	404 B.C.
Context :	civilian
Motivation :	following orders
Application :	shooting
Weapon :	javelin
Original Text :	αἰσθόμενος δ᾽ ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδης τῶν μὲν ἱματίων τὰ πλεῖστα καὶ τῶν στρωμάτων συναγαγὼν ἐπέρριψε τῷ πυρί, τῇ δ᾽ ἀριστερᾷ χειρὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χλαμύδα περιελίξας, τῇ δεξιᾷ σπασάμενος τὸ ἐγχειρίδιον ἐξέπεσεν ἀπαθὴς ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸς πρὶν ἢ διαφλέγεσθαι τὰ ἱμάτια, καὶ τοὺς βαρβάρους ὀφθεὶς διεσκέδασεν. οὐδεὶς γὰρ ὑπέμεινεν αὐτὸν οὐδ᾽ εἰς χεῖρας συνῆλθεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀποστάντες ἔβαλλον ἀκοντίοις καὶ τοξεύμασιν.
Translation :	When Alcibiades was aware of this, he gathered together most of the garments and bedding in the house and cast them on the fire. Then, wrapping his cloak about his left arm, and drawing his sword with his right, he dashed out, unscathed by the fire, before the garments were in flames, and scattered the Barbarians, who ran at the mere sight of him. Not a man stood ground against him, or came to close quarters with him, but all held aloof and shot him with javelins and arrows.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Lysander and Sulla, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 80), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 2000 (first ed. 1916).
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