Current sentence-level mythic, historical, and other tags
| Passage | Sentence | Bucket | Confidence | Greek | English | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.13.1 | 1 | mythic | high | τὰ δὲ ἐντεῦθεν---ἔρρεπε γὰρ ἤδη τὸ χρεὼν ἐς ἅλωσιν τῶν Μεσσηνίων---προεσήμαινεν αὐτοῖς τὰ μέλλοντα ὁ θεός. | From this point onward—for fate was already inclining towards the fall of the Messenians—the god gave them signs of what was coming. | Refers to divine signs and the foretold fall of the Messenians, a mythic/legendary causal frame. |
| 4.13.1 | 2 | mythic | high | τό τε γὰρ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἄγαλμα, ὂν χαλκοῦν καὶ αὐτὸ καὶ τὰ ὅπλα, παρῆκε τὴν ἀσπίδα· καὶ Ἀριστοδήμου τῷ Διὶ τῷ Ἰθωμάτᾳ θύειν μέλλοντος τὰ ἱερεῖα, οἱ κριοὶ ἐπὶ τὸν βωμὸν αὐτόματοι καὶ βίᾳ τὰ κέρατα ἐνράξαντες ἀποθνήσκουσιν ὑπὸ τῆς πληγῆς. | First, the bronze statue of Artemis, along with its bronze weapons, dropped its shield; next, as Aristodemus was about to sacrifice the victims to Zeus Ithomatas, the rams, of their own accord, violently dashed their horns against the altar and died from their injuries. | Portents and divine omens involving Artemis statue and sacrificial victims belong to mythic/religious narrative. |
| 4.13.1 | 3 | historical | medium | τρίτον δὲ ἄλλο συνέβη σφίσιν· οἱ κύνες συνιόντες ἐς τὸ αὐτὸ ἀνὰ πᾶσαν νύκτα ὠρύοντο, τέλος δὲ καὶ ἀπεχώρησαν ἀθρόοι πρὸς τὸ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων στρατόπεδον. | Thirdly, another omen befell them: every night the dogs assembled together and howled incessantly, until finally they withdrew all together towards the Spartan camp. | An omen linked to a specific military episode and Spartan camp, so it belongs with historical narrative rather than myth. |
| 4.13.2 | 1 | mythic | high | ταῦτά τε δὴ τὸν Ἀριστόδημον ἐτάρασσε καὶ ὀνείρατος ὄψις ἐπιγενομένη τοιάδε. | These things were troubling Aristodemus, and afterwards a vision appeared to him in a dream of the following nature: | A dream vision belongs to mythic narrative content. |
| 4.13.2 | 2 | other | high | ἔδοξεν ἐξιέναι οἱ μέλλοντι ἐς μάχην καὶ ὡπλισμένῳ τῶν ἱερείων τὰ σπλάγχνα ἐπὶ τραπέζῃ προκεῖσθαι, τὴν δέ οἱ θυγατέρα ἐπιφανῆναι μέλαιναν ἐσθῆτα ἔχουσαν καὶ φαίνουσαν τό τε στέρνον καὶ τὴν γαστέρα ἀνατετμημένα, ἀναφανεῖσαν δὲ ἀπορρῖψαι μὲν τὰ ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης, ἀφελέσθαι δὲ αὐτοῦ τὰ ὅπλα, ἀντὶ τούτων δὲ στέφανον ἐπιθεῖναι χρυσοῦν καὶ ἱμάτιον ἐπιβαλεῖν λευκόν. | As he was preparing to go out armed into battle, he seemed to see upon a table set before him the entrails of sacrificial victims. | A battle omen/vision in a ritual context; descriptive rather than a narrated mythic or historical event. |
| 4.13.3 | 1 | other | high | ἔχοντος δὲ Ἀριστοδήμου τά τε ἄλλα ἀθύμως καὶ τὸν ὄνειρον ἡγουμένου προλέγειν οἱ τοῦ βίου τελευτήν, ὅτι οἱ Μεσσήνιοι τῶν ἐπιφανῶν τὰς ἐκφορὰς ἐποιοῦντο ἐστεφανωμένων καὶ ἱμάτια ἐπιβεβλημένων λευκά, ἀπαγγέλλει τις Ὀφιονέα τὸν μάντιν οὐχ ὁρᾶν ἔτι ἀλλʼ ἐξαίφνης γενέσθαι τυφλόν, ὥσπερ γε καὶ ἦν τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς. | As Aristodemus was already disheartened by other reasons, and interpreting the dream as foretelling his death—for the Messenians customarily carried forth their noble dead wearing garlands and clothed in white garments—someone brought word that Ophioneus, the seer, could no longer see, having suddenly become blind just as he had originally been. | Describes a dream, a seer's blindness, and funeral custom; this is narrative/antiquarian detail rather than a mythic event or post-500 BC historical event. |
| 4.13.3 | 2 | mythic | high | συνιᾶσι δὴ καὶ τοῦ χρησμοῦ τότε, ὡς τοὺς ἀναδύντας δύο ἐκ τοῦ λόχου καὶ ἐς τὸ χρεὼν αὖθις ἐλθόντας τοῦ Ὀφιονέως τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς εἶπεν ἡ Πυθία. | Only then did they understand clearly the oracle too, that the eyes of Ophioneus mentioned by the Pythia were indeed the two men who had returned alive from the ambush and had gone once more to their prescribed fate. | The sentence interprets a Pythian oracle by identifying the men as Ophioneus's eyes, which belongs to mythic narrative and its effect on understanding the landscape/story. |
| 4.13.4 | 1 | historical | high | ἐνταῦθα Ἀριστόδημος τά τε οἰκεῖα ἀναλογιζόμενος, ὡς οὐδὲν ὠφέλιμον γένοιτο φονεὺς θυγατρός, καὶ τῇ πατρίδι οὐχ ὁρῶν ἔτι ὑποῦσαν σωτηρίας ἐλπίδα, ἐπικατέσφαξεν ἑαυτὸν τῆς παιδὸς τῷ τάφῳ, τὰ μὲν ἐς ἀνθρώπου λογισμὸν ἥκοντα Μεσσηνίους σώσας, τῆς τύχης δὲ ἐς τὸ μηδὲν ἀγαγούσης τά τε ἔργα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ βουλεύματα. | At this point Aristodemus, reflecting upon his own situation, saw that he had gained nothing beneficial by slaying his daughter, and perceiving no longer any hope of salvation remaining for his country, he killed himself upon his child's tomb—he who in respect of human reasoning had saved the Messenians, yet whose achievements and plans Fortune reduced utterly to nothing. | Aristodemus is a historical figure from the Messenian wars; the sentence narrates his suicide and the fall of his plans, not mythic material. |
| 4.13.4 | 2 | historical | high | ἀπέθανε δὲ βασιλεύσας ἔτη τε ἓξ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἑβδόμου μῆνας ἐπιλαβὼν οὐ πολλούς. | He died having ruled as king for six years and a few months into the seventh. | A king’s reign length and death are historical-regnal information, not mythic or descriptive geography. |
| 4.13.5 | 1 | mythic | high | τοῖς δὲ Μεσσηνίοις ἀπεγνωκέναι τὰ πράγματα παρίστατο, ὥστε καὶ ὥρμησαν ἱκεσίαν ἐς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀποστέλλειν· οὕτω σφόδρα κατέπληξεν αὐτοὺς ἡ τοῦ Ἀριστοδήμου τελευτή. | The Messenians saw their situation as utterly hopeless, to such an extent that they even considered sending an embassy of supplication to the Lacedaemonians—so deeply had Aristodemus’ death shaken their morale. | Aristodemus and the Messenians belong to the legendary Messenian war narrative and its effects. |
| 4.13.5 | 2 | other | high | καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ὁ θυμὸς ἐπέσχεν αὐτοὺς μὴ ποιῆσαι. | Nevertheless, pride withheld them from doing this. | A general statement about pride preventing an action; no mythic event or historical event. |
| 4.13.5 | 3 | historical | high | συλλεγέντες δὲ ἐς ἐκκλησίαν βασιλέα μὲν οὐδένα, Δᾶμιν δὲ στρατηγὸν αὐτοκράτορα εἵλοντο. | Gathering in assembly, they chose no king, but instead appointed Damis as general with absolute authority. | Refers to an assembly choosing a commander with absolute authority, a civic-political event rather than mythic material. |
| 4.13.5 | 4 | historical | high | ὁ δὲ Κλέοννίν τε αὑτῷ καὶ Φυλέα ἑλόμενος συνάρχοντας παρεσκευάζετο ὡς καὶ ἐκ τῶν παρόντων συνάψων ἐς μάχην· ἐπηνάγκαζε γὰρ ἥ τε πολιορκία καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα ὁ λιμὸς καὶ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ δέος, μὴ καὶ προδιαφθαρῶσιν ὑπὸ ἐνδείας. | He selected Cleonnis and Phyleus as his fellow commanders and prepared to fight a battle with the forces they still had at hand; for the siege itself compelled them, and especially hunger, and the fear it caused, lest they perish prematurely from starvation. | A siege, commanders, and starvation are historical/war narrative details, not mythic material. |
| 4.13.6 | 1 | historical | high | ἀρετῇ μὲν δὴ καὶ τολμήμασιν οὐδὲ τότε ἀπεδέησε τὰ τῶν Μεσσηνίων· ἀπέθανον δὲ οἵ τε στρατηγοί σφισιν ἅπαντες καὶ τῶν ἄλλων οἱ λόγου μάλιστα ἄξιοι. | Indeed, even at that time the Messenians were not lacking in valor and daring deeds; yet all their commanders and those most worthy of mention among the others perished. | Describes the fate of the Messenians in a historical conflict, not a mythic event. |
| 4.13.6 | 2 | historical | high | τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τούτου μῆνας μέν που πέντε μάλιστα ἀντέσχον, περὶ δὲ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν λήγοντα ἐξέλιπον τὴν Ἰθώμην, πολεμήσαντες ἔτη τὰ πάντα εἴκοσι, καθὰ καὶ Τυρταίῳ πεποιημένα ἐστίν· | After this event, they still resisted for approximately five months, but towards the conclusion of the year they abandoned Ithome, having fought throughout a total of twenty years, as Tyrtaeus also composed in his verses: | Refers to the end of a war and the abandonment of Ithome, with a citation to Tyrtaeus; this is historical material after roughly 500 BC's threshold in Pausanias tagging. |
| 4.13.6 | 3 | historical | medium | εἰκοστῷ δʼ οἱ μὲν κατὰ πίονα ἔργα λιπόντες φεῦγον Ἰθωμαίων ἐκ μεγάλων ὀρέων. | "But in the twentieth year they fled, abandoning their rich fields, Away from the lofty mountains of Ithome." | Refers to flight and abandonment of fields in the twentieth year, an event-like historical/war context rather than myth. |
| 4.13.7 | 1 | historical | high | ὁ δὲ πόλεμος ἔλαβεν οὗτος τέλος ἔτει πρώτῳ τῆς τετάρτης καὶ δεκάτης Ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν Δάσμων Κορίνθιος ἐνίκα στάδιον, Ἀθήνῃσι Μεδοντιδῶν τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔτι ἐχόντων τὴν δεκέτιν καὶ ἔτους Ἱππομένει τετάρτου τῆς ἀρχῆς ἠνυσμένου. | This war came to an end in the first year of the fourteenth Olympiad, in which Dasmon of Corinth won the foot race, while at Athens the Medontidae were still holding their decennial magistracy, in the fourth year of Hippomenes' term of office. | Dates a war by Olympiad and magistracies, indicating a historical chronological notice. |