The army of Agesilaus II plunders in disorder in the plain of Sardis

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Agesilaus II Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Lydian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 10.2Plutarch Agesilaus 10.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Sardis (Sart)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign plunder
Motivation :	following orders
Long-Term Consequence :	death
Original Text :	καὶ τῇ ἵππῳ διεξελαύνων διέφθειρε πολλοὺς τῶν ἀτάκτως τὸ πεδίον πορθούντων.
Translation :	and riding through the plain with his cavalry, he cut off many straggling plunderers there.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives V: Agesilaus and Pompey, Pelopidas and Marcellus, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 87), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1961 (first ed. 1917).
Remark :	long-term consequence: Tissaphernes comes with aid to the plain of Sardis and kills many of the straggling plunderers (Plut. Ages. 10.2).
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