The Athenians capture messengers of Philip II.

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Army of Philip II Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: envoy, Direct Consequence: capture
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Demetrius 22.1Plutarch Demetrius 22.1 Paste CTS-Link
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	tactical/strategical
Long-Term Consequence :	sending of envoys
Original Text :	καὶ τὴν Ἀθηναίων οὐκ ἐμιμήσαντο φιλανθρωπίαν, οἳ Φιλίππου πολεμοῦντος αὐτοῖς γραμματοφόρους ἑλόντες τὰς μὲν ἄλλας ἀνέγνωσαν ἐπιστολάς, μόνην δὲ τὴν Ὀλυμπιάδος οὐκ ἔλυσαν, ἀλλ̓, ὥσπερ ἦν κατασεσημασμένη, πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἀπέστειλαν.
Translation :	In this they did not imitate the considerate kindness of the Athenians, who, having captured Philip's letter-carriers when he was making war upon them, read all the other letters, indeed, but one of them, which was from Olympias, they would not open; instead, they sent it back to the king with its seal unbroken.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
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