The Spartan infantry division is cut into pieces by Iphicrates

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Related Conflict :	Corinthian War
Perpetrator (Person) :	Iphicrates Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Iphicrates, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 22.2Plutarch Agesilaus 22.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Korinthos (Corinth)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign battle
Motivation :	tactical/strategical
Long-Term Consequence :	campaign
Original Text :	οὔπω γὰρ ἀπηλλαγμένων τῶν Θηβαίων ἧκόν τινες ἀπαγγέλλοντες αὐτῷ τήν μόραν ὑπό Ἰφικράτους κατακεκόφθαι.
Translation :	for the Thebans had not yet departed when messengers came to him with tidings that the Spartan division had been cut to pieces by Iphicrates.
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: Agesilaus II starts a campaign to help the Spartan infantry division (Plut. Ages. 22.3). "But when he learned that it was all over with them, he came back again to the Heraeum (Plut. Ages. 22.3)".
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