Fifty men of Agesilaus II kill many Thebans standing closely in front of him

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Related Conflict :	Battle of Coronea 394BC
Perpetrator (Group) :	Fifty soldiers of Agesilaus II Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Theban, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
Third Party (Person) :	Agesilaus II Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 18.3Plutarch Agesilaus 18.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Koroneia (Coronea)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	394 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign battle
Motivation :	ambition
Original Text :	ἀγωνιζόμενοι γὰρ ἐκθύμως καὶ προκινδυνεύοντες ἄτρωτον μὲν αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐδυνήθησαν φυλάξαι, πολλὰς δὲ διὰ τῶν ὅπλων δεξάμενον εἰς τὸ σῶμα πληγὰς δόρασι καὶ ξίφεσι μόλις ἀνήρπασαν ζῶντα, καὶ συμφράξαντες πρὸ αὐτοῦ πολλοὺς μὲν ἀνῄρουν, πολλοὶ δὲ ἔπιπτον.
Translation :	For they fought with the utmost fury and exposed their lives in his behalf, and though they were not able to keep him from being wounded, but many blows of spears and swords pierced his armour and reached his person, they did succeed in dragging him off alive, and standing in close array in front of him, they slew many foes, while many of their own number fell.
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).
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