Timoleon besieges Messana.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Timoleon Origin: Corinthian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Timoleon Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Person) :	Hippo, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Reaction: flight, Direct Consequence: defeat Mamercus, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Reaction: surrender, Direct Consequence: defeat
Victim (Group) :	Army of Hippo Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Reaction: fight back, Direct Consequence: defeat Origin: Messenian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Timoleon 34.3Plutarch Timoleon 34.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Messana (Messina)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign siege
Motivation :	following orders political
Long-Term Consequence :	capture conquest death
Original Text :	ἐπελθόντος δὲ τοῦ Τιμολέοντος αὐτοῖς καὶ πολιορκοῦντος ἔκ τε γῆς καὶ θαλάττης
Translation :	But Timoleon came up against them and besieged them by land and sea
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
Remark :	longtermconsequence: Hippo and Mamercus are captured and executed. This is mentioned later in the paragraph and in 34.4.
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