Alcibiades captures priests and priestesses.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Alcibiades Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Persian, Age: adult, Activity: religious figure, Direct Consequence: capture
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Alcibiades 29.3Plutarch Alcibiades 29.3 Paste CTS-Link
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	410 B.C.
Context :	plunder
Motivation :	unknown
Original Text :	τῇ δ᾽ ὑστεραίᾳ στήσας τρόπαιον ἐλεηλάτει τὴν Φαρναβάζου χώραν οὐδενὸς ἀμύνεσθαι τολμῶντος. ἱερεῖς μέντοι καὶ ἱερείας ἔλαβε μέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀφῆκεν ἄνευ λύτρων.
Translation :	On the following day Alcibiades set up a trophy of victory and plundered the territory of Pharnabazus, no one venturing to defend it. He even captured some priests and priestesses, but let them go without ransom.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Lysander and Sulla, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 80), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 2000 (first ed. 1916).
Remark :	topology: In the text, only "territory of Pharnabazus" is stated as location.
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