Abantidas kills Cleinias.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Abantidas Origin: Greek, Age: adult
Victim (Person) :	Cleinias Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intrasocial interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Aratus 2.2Plutarch Aratus 2.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Sikyon (Sicyon)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	264 B.C.
Context :	regicide
Motivation :	political
Weapon :	unknown
Long-Term Consequence :	exile
Original Text :	ἤδη δέ τινα τῆς πολιτείας κατάστασιν ἔχειν δοκούσης Τιμοκλείδας μὲν ἀπέθανεν, Ἀβαντίδας δὲ ὁ Πασέου τυραννίδα πράττων ἑαυτῷ τὸν Κλεινίαν ἀπέκτεινε καὶ τῶν φίλων καὶ οἰκείων τοὺς μὲν ἐξέβαλε, τοὺς δὲ ἀνεῖλεν.
Translation :	But no sooner did the government appear to be somewhat settled than Timocleides died, and Abantidas the son of Paseas, attempting to make himself tyrant, slew Cleinias, and, of the friends and kinsmen of Cleinias, banished some and killed others.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1926. 11.
Remark :	long-term consequence: Aratus and many others flee as consequence of Abantidas seizing power.
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