The Thebans utterly destroy most of the Laconian country within three months

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Epaminondas Origin: Theban, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Epaminondas Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Lacedaemonian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: losses
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Agesilaus 32.8Plutarch Agesilaus 32.8 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Lakedaemonia (Laconia)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign
Motivation :	political other
Long-Term Consequence :	retreat
Original Text :	ἀναχωρῆσαι δὲ τοὺς Θηβαίους ἐκ τῆς Λακωνικῆς οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι λέγουσι χειμώνων γενομένων καὶ τῶν Ἀρκάδων ἀρξαμένων ἀπιέναι καὶ διαρρεῖν ἀτάκτως, οἱ δὲ τρεῖς μῆνας ἐμμεμενηκότας ὅλους καὶ τὰ πλεῖστα τῆς χώρας διαπεπορθηκότας:
Translation :	As for the reason why the Thebans withdrew from Laconia, most writers say that it was because winter storms came on and the Arcadians began to melt away and disband; others, because they had remained there three entire months and thoroughly ravaged most of the country;
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 :	motive: Because Epaminondas can't get Agesilaus II. to fight with him, he continues to devastate the country.
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