A soldier of Alaric attempts to rape a Roman woman, both injuring each other in the struggle, but he stops due to her willingness to die.

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Related Conflict :	Sack of Rome (410)
Perpetrator (Person) :	Origin: Visigothic, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: help, Direct Consequence: injury
Victim (Person) :	Origin: Roman, Age: adult, Activity: other, Reaction: fight back, Direct Consequence: injury
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Salminius Hermias Sozomenus, Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία/Historia ecclesiastica 9.10.2-4Salminius Hermias Sozomenus Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία/Historia ecclesiastica 9.10.2-4 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Roma (Rome)
Time Periode :	Roman Empire
Century :	A.D. 5
Year :	A.D. 410
Context :	sack
Motivation :	emotional religious
Application :	stabbing
Weapon :	bare hands/no weapons sword
Original Text :	Ταύτην δὲ εὖ μάλα καλὴν ἰδών τις νέος τῶν Ἀλαρίχου στρατιωτῶν, ἡττήθη τοῦ κάλλους, καὶ εἰς συνουσίαν εἷλκεν. Ἀνθέλκουσαν δὲ καὶ βιαζομένην μηδὲν ἀσελγὲς παθεῖν, γυμνώσας τὸ ξίφος, ἠπείλησεν ἀναιρεῖν: καὶ μετὰ φειδοὺς, οἷά γε ἐρωτικῶς διακείμενος, ἐξ ἐπιπολῆς ἔπληξε τὸν τράχηλον. Πολλῷ δὲ περιρρεομένη τῷ αἵματι, τὸν αὐχένα τῷ ξίφει ὑπέσχεν: αἱρετώτερον ἐν σωφροσύνῃ λογισαμένη ἀποθανεῖν, ἢ ζῆν ἑτέρου πειρασθεῖσαν ἀνδρὸς μετὰ τὸν νόμῳ συνοικήσαντα. Ἐπεὶ δὲ πάλιν ὁ βάρβαρος καὶ φοβερώτερον ἐπιὼν οὐδὲν πλέον ἤνυε, θαυμάσας αὐτῆς τὴν σωφροσύνην, ἤγαγεν εἰς τὸ Πέτρου ἀποστολεῖον: καὶ παραδοὺς τοῖς φύλαξι τῆς ἐκκλησίας, καὶ χρυσοὺς ἓξ εἰς ἀποτροφὴν αὐτῆς, ἐκέλευσε τῷ ἀνδρὶ φυλάττειν.
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Edition :	Sozomeni Ecclesiastica Historia Volumes 1-2, ed. Robert Hussey, E Typographeo Academico, Oxford 1860.
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