Agesilaus II puts the Pharsalians to flight

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Agesilaus II Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :	Cavalry of Agesilaus II, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: flight, Direct Consequence: defeat
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 16.5Plutarch Agesilaus 16.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Narthacium (Xerovouni Avaritsis)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	394 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign battle
Motivation :	self-defence
Original Text :	τῶν δὲ Φαρσαλίων προσκειμένων αὑτῷ καὶ κακούντων τὸ στράτευμα, πεντακοσίοις ἱππεῦσιν ἐμβαλεῖν κελεύσας σὺν αὑτῷ καὶ τρεψάμενος ἔστησε τρόπαιον ὑπὸ τῷ Ναρθακίῳ.
Translation :	However, when the Pharsalians annoyed him and harassed his army, he ordered five hundred horsemen which he led in person to attack them, routed them, and set up a trophy at the foot of mount Narthacium.
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 :	victim: The victims are Pharsalian.
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