Pyrrhus takes the fortress Eryx.

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Related Conflict :	Pyrrhic War
Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Phoenician, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Reaction: fight back, Direct Consequence: defeat
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 22.6Plutarch Pyrrhus 22.6 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Eryx (Erice)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece Roman Republic
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	278 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	ambition tactical/strategical political
Original Text :	ἁλούσης δὲ τῆς πόλεως ἔθυσέ τε τῷ θεῷ μεγαλοπρεπῶς καὶ θέας ἀγώνων παντοδαπῶν παρέσχε.
Translation :	After the capture of the city, he sacrificed to the god in magnificent fashion and furnished spectacles of all sorts of contests.
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).
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