Agesilaus II arrests about fifteen men and kills them in the night.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Agesilaus II Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Lacedaemonian, Age: adult, Activity: mixed
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Lacedaemonian, Age: adult, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 32.5Plutarch Agesilaus 32.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Sparte / Lakedaimon (Sparta)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	civilian revolt
Motivation :	political
Original Text :	βουλόμενος δὲ τὴν παροῦσαν ἀθυμίαν καὶ κατήφειαν ἀφελεῖν τῶν νέων ἐνέβαλεν εἰς Ἀρκαδίαν, καὶ μάχην μὲν ἰσχυρῶς ἐφυλάξατο συνάψαι τοῖς ἐναντίοις, ἑλὼν δὲ πολίχνην τινὰ τῶν Μαντινέων καὶ τὴν χώραν ἐπιδραμών, ἐλαφροτέραν ἐποίησε ταῖς ἐλπίσι καὶ ἡδίω τὴν πόλιν, ὡς οὐ παντάπασιν ἀπεγνωσμένην.
Translation :	Then Agesilaüs at once summoned other troops and took possession of the Issorium, after which he arrested about fifteen of the conspirators who had been gathered there, and put them to death in the night.
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 :	perpetrator: The group of perpetrators consists of soldiers and executioners.
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