Seventy thousand invaders devastate Laconia by fire and plunder it

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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 31.2Plutarch Agesilaus 31.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Lakedaemonia (Laconia)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	370 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign plunder
Motivation :	economical political
Long-Term Consequence :	other
Original Text :	πρότερον δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐτόλμησεν ἀλλὰ ἀδῄωτον καὶ ἄθικτον οὖσαν ἐμβαλόντες ἐπυρπόλουν καὶ διήρπαζον ἄχρι τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ τῆς πόλεως, μηδενὸς ἐπεξιόντος.
Translation :	before this, none had ventured there. But now they burst into an unravaged and inviolate land, and burned and plundered as far as the river and the city, and no one came out against them.
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 :	long-term consequence: Agesilaus II. deploys soliders to guard the city (Plut. Ages. 31.3).
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