Aratus captures the Acrocorinth with the aid of Erginus.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Aratus of Sicyon Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general Erginus Origin: Syrian, Age: adult, Activity: camp follower
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Aratus Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Macedonian garrison at the Acrocorinth Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Aratus 33.2Plutarch Aratus 33.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Akrokorinthos (Acrocorinth)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	243 B.C.
Context :	military
Motivation :	political tactical/strategical
Long-Term Consequence :	conquest
Original Text :	αὐτὸς δὲ ἀρνούμενος ἐν τοῖς ὑπομνήμασιν οἷς ἀπολέλοιπεν Ἐργῖνον αἰτιᾶται, μεθ᾽οὗ τὰ περὶ τὸν Ἀκροκόρινθον ἔπραξεν.
Translation :	He himself, however, in the Commentaries which he left, lays the blame for this attempt upon Erginus, with whose aid he had effected the capture of Acrocorinthus.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1926. 11.
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