Hicetas besieges the acropolis of Syracuse.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Hicetas Origin: Syracusan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Hicetas Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary
Victim (Person) :	Eucleides Origin: Corinthian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general Telemachus Origin: Corinthian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary Origin: Corinthian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Timoleon 16.3Plutarch Timoleon 16.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Syracuse (Siracusa)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign siege
Motivation :	following orders political
Original Text :	ὁ δ᾽ Ἱκέτης τήν μὲν ἀκρόπολιν τῶν Συρακουσῶν ἐπολιόρκει καὶ σῖτον ἐκώλυεν εἰσπλεῖν τοῖς Κορινθίοις
Translation :	But Hicetas kept the acropolis of Syracuse under siege and prevented the importation of food for the Corinthians there
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
Remark :	victim: Eucleides' and Telemachus' presence in the acropolis is mentioned in 13.2. Although they took a few hundred soldiers from Corinth with them, most of the defenders were mercenaries, who were handed over to them by Dionysius II.
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