Demosthenes and Nicias take their lifes, after being informed about the decision of the Syracusan assembly to execute them.

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Related Conflict :	Peloponnesian War
Perpetrator (Person) :	Nicias Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Direct Consequence: death Demosthenes (strategos) Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Victim (Person) :	Nicias Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death Demosthenes (strategos) Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Third Party (Person) :	Hermocrates Origin: Syracusan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Reaction: help Syracusan prisonguard of Nicias and Demosthenes Origin: Syracusan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: help
Level :	intrapersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Nicias 28,4Plutarch Nicias 28,4 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Syracuse (Siracusa)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	413 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	tactical/strategical
Long-Term Consequence :	death
Original Text :	ἀλλ᾽ Ἑρμοκράτους πέμψαντος, ἔτι τῆς ἐκκλησίας συνεστώσης, καὶ δι᾽ ἑνὸς τῶν φυλάκων παρέντων αὐτοὺς δι᾽ αὑτῶν ἀποθανεῖν
Translation :	Hermocrates sent word to them of the decision of the assembly while it was yet in session, and with the connivance of one of their guards they took their own lives
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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