Many Spartans are wounded or killed during the siege of Sparta.

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Related Conflict :	Siege of Sparta
Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: injury Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 29.5Plutarch Pyrrhus 29.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Sparte / Lakedaimon (Sparta)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	272 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign siege
Motivation :	tactical/strategical
Long-Term Consequence :	retreat
Original Text :	ἐκ δὲ τούτου καὶ τὴν ἄλλην μάχην ἔπαυεν, οἰόμενος ἐνδώσειν τι τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους σχεδὸν ἁπάντων κατατετρωμένων αὐτοῖς, πεπτωκότων δὲ πολλῶν, ἡ δ':
Translation :	After this, Pyrrhus brought the fighting to a stop at other points also, thinking that the Spartans would make some concessions, now that almost all of them were wounded and many had fallen.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Remark :	long-term consequence: Pyrrhus stops the battle.
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