Cleonymus is killed fighting the Thebans

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Related Conflict :	Battle of Leuctra
Perpetrator (Person) :	Epaminondas Origin: Theban, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Epaminondas Origin: Theban, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Person) :	Cleonymus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
Third Party (Person) :	Cleombrotus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Third Party (Group) :	Army of Cleombrotus Origin: Lacedaemonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 28.6Plutarch Agesilaus 28.6 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Leuktra (Leuctra)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	371 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign battle
Motivation :	self-defence
Original Text :	ἐν οἷς καὶ Κλεώνυμόν φασι τὸν Σφοδρίου τὸν καλὸν τρὶς πεσόντα πρὸ τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τοσαυτάκις ἐξαναστάντα καὶ μαχόμενον τοῖς Θηβαίοις ἀποθανεῖν.
Translation :	Among these, they say, was Cleonymus, the beautiful son of Sphodrias, who was thrice struck down in front of his king, as many times rose again to his feet, and died there, fighting the Thebans.
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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