Pausanias Analysis - Current Sentence Tags 9.6

Chapter 9.6

Passage	Sentence	Bucket	Confidence	Greek	English	Rationale
9.6.1	1	historical	medium	τῶν δέ σφισιν ἐν ἀγῶσι πολέμου γενομένων εὐτυχημάτων, καὶ ὡς ἑτέρως, τοσάδε φανερώτατα ὄντα εὕρισκον.	Among the successes occurring for them in contests of war, as well as events of the opposite kind, I find the following to have been most conspicuous:	Refers to war contests and their outcomes in a historical context, not mythic narrative.
9.6.1	2	historical	high	ἐκρατήθησαν ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων μάχῃ Πλαταιεῦσιν ἀμυνάντων, ὅτε σφᾶς ἐπέλαβεν ὑπὲρ τῶν ὅρων πολεμῆσαι τῆς χώρας· προσέπταισαν δὲ καὶ δεύτερον Ἀθηναίοις ἀντιταξάμενοι περὶ Πλάταιαν, ἡνίκα δοκοῦσιν ἑλέσθαι τὰ βασιλέως Ξέρξου πρὸ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν.	They were defeated by the Athenians in a battle, in which the Plataeans joined to defend themselves, when they attempted to wage war over disputed boundaries of the land; and they suffered another reverse, again opposed by the Athenians near Plataea, precisely at the time when they thought themselves about to seize the side of King Xerxes against the interests of Greece.	Refers to battles involving Athens, Plataea, and Xerxes, i.e. post-500 BC historical events.
9.6.2	1	historical	high	τῆς δὲ αἰτίας ταύτης δημοσίᾳ σφίσιν οὐ μέτεστιν, ὅτι ἐν ταῖς Θήβαις ὀλιγαρχία καὶ οὐχὶ ἡ πάτριος πολιτεία τηνικαῦτα ἴσχυεν·	They are publicly free from this blame, because at that time an oligarchy, rather than the ancestral form of government, held power in Thebes.	Refers to a political condition at Thebes in historical time, contrasting oligarchy with ancestral constitution.
9.6.2	2	historical	high	εἰ γοῦν Πεισιστράτου τυραννοῦντος ἔτι ἢ τῶν παίδων Ἀθήνῃσιν ἀφίκετο ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ὁ βάρβαρος, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅπως οὐ καὶ Ἀθηναίους κατέλαβεν ἂν ἔγκλημα μηδισμοῦ.	Indeed, if the barbarians had invaded Greece when Peisistratus or his sons were still ruling as tyrants in Athens, the Athenians, too, would surely have been accused of siding with the Medes.	Refers to Peisistratus and the Persian Wars-era accusation of Medism, a historical counterfactual about events after 500 BC.
9.6.3	1	historical	high	ὕστερον μέντοι καὶ Θηβαίοις νίκη κατʼ Ἀθηναίων ἐπὶ Δηλίῳ τῷ Ταναγραίων ἐγένετο, καὶ Ἱπποκράτης τε ὁ Ἀρίφρονος, ὃς στρατηγὸς ἦν Ἀθηναίοις, καὶ τῆς ἄλλης στρατιᾶς τὸ πολὺ ἔπεσε.	Later, however, the Thebans also gained a victory over the Athenians at Delium in the territory of Tanagra; here Hippocrates, son of Ariphron, who was the general of the Athenians, fell, along with the greater part of the army.	Describes the Battle of Delium, a real historical event of the Peloponnesian War.
9.6.3	2	historical	high	Λακεδαιμονίοις δὲ παραυτίκα μὲν ἀπελθόντος τοῦ Μήδου καὶ ἄχρι τοῦ Πελοποννησίων πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πολέμου τὰ ἐκ Θηβῶν εἶχεν ἐπιτηδείως·	For the Lacedaemonians, immediately after the departure of the Persian and until the war between the Peloponnesians and Athenians, relations with Thebes were favorable.	Refers to post-Persian-Wars relations and the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, a historical timeframe.
9.6.3	3	historical	high	διαπολεμηθέντος δὲ τοῦ πολέμου καὶ Ἀθηναίοις καταλυθέντος τοῦ ναυτικοῦ, μετʼ οὐ πολὺ Θηβαῖοι μετὰ Κορινθίων ἐς τὸν πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους πόλεμον προήχθησαν.	But once this war had been fought out and the naval power of Athens destroyed, the Thebans, not long after, entered into war against the Lacedaemonians alongside the Corinthians.	Refers to the Peloponnesian War era and the later Theban-Corinthian conflict after Athens' naval power was destroyed.
9.6.4	1	historical	high	κρατηθέντες δὲ μάχῃ περὶ Κόρινθόν τε καὶ ἐν Κορωνείᾳ, νικῶσιν αὖθις ἐν Λεύκτροις ἐπιφανεστάτην νίκην ὁπόσας γενομένας Ἕλλησιν ἴσμεν κατὰ Ἑλλήνων·	After suffering defeat in battle near Corinth and at Coroneia, they subsequently won at Leuctra, gaining the most remarkable victory we know of among Greeks fighting against Greeks.	Refers to the Battle of Leuctra and other named battles, which are historical military მოვლენements.
9.6.4	2	historical	high	καὶ δεκαδαρχίας τε, ἃς Λακεδαιμόνιοι κατέστησαν ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν, ἔπαυσαν καὶ ἁρμοστὰς τοὺς Σπαρτιάτας ἐκβάλλουσιν.	They put an end to the decarchies that the Lacedaemonians had set up in the cities, and they expelled the Spartan harmosts.	Refers to the expulsion of Spartan harmosts and ending of decarchies, a post-500 BC political event.
9.6.4	3	historical	high	ὕστερον δὲ καὶ τὸν Φωκικὸν πόλεμον, ὀνομαζόμενον δὲ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων ἱερόν, συνεχῶς δέκα ἔτεσιν ἐπολέμησαν.	Later, they also carried on war against the Phokians—a conflict the Greeks have named the Sacred War—for ten continuous years.	Refers to the Phocian/Sacred War, a historical conflict after 500 BC.
9.6.5	1	historical	high	εἴρηται δέ μοι καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἀτθίδι συγγραφῇ τὸ ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ σφάλμα συμφορὰν γενέσθαι τοῖς πᾶσιν Ἕλλησι· Θηβαίους δὲ καὶ ἐς πλέον κατέλαβεν, οἷς γε καὶ ἐσήχθη ἐς τὴν πόλιν φρουρά.	I have already stated in my account of Attica that the defeat at Chaeronea proved disastrous for all of Greece; yet it brought even greater disaster on the Thebans, upon whom a garrison was introduced into their city.	Refers to the Battle of Chaeronea and the Macedonian garrison, both historical events after 500 BC.
9.6.5	2	historical	high	Φιλίππου δὲ ἀποθανόντος καὶ ἐς Ἀλέξανδρον ἡκούσης τῆς Μακεδόνων ἀρχῆς, Θηβαίοις ἐπῆλθεν ἐξελεῖν τὴν φρουράν·	After Philip's death, and when the Macedonian rule had passed to Alexander, the Thebans attempted to drive out the garrison.	Refers to Philip II's death, Alexander's succession, and the Thebans' action against a Macedonian garrison: a historical event after 500 BC.
9.6.5	3	historical	high	ποιήσασι δὲ ταῦτα προεσήμαινεν αὐτίκα ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἐπιόντα ὄλεθρον, καί σφισιν ἐν Δήμητρος ἱερῷ Θεσμοφόρου σημεῖα ἐγένετο ἐναντία ἢ πρὸ τοῦ ἔργου τοῦ ἐν Λεύκτροις·	But when they undertook this action, the god immediately foretold their approaching destruction; indeed, portents appeared to them in the sanctuary of Demeter Thesmophoros, opposite in meaning to those signs that had preceded their victory at Leuctra.	Refers to omens foretelling the destruction at Leuctra, a historical event and its religious portents.
9.6.6	1	historical	medium	τότε μὲν γὰρ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τὰς θύρας ὑφάσματι ἀράχναι λευκῷ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Μακεδόνων ἔφοδον μέλανι ἐξύφηναν.	For at that time, spiders spun white webs upon the doors of the temple, but at the invasion of Alexander and the Macedonians, they wove them black.	References Alexander's invasion and its effect on the temple, an event after 500 BC.
9.6.6	2	historical	high	λέγεται δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναίοις ὗσαι τέφραν ὁ θεὸς ἐνιαυτῷ πρότερον πρὶν ἢ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν ἐπαχθέντα ὑπὸ Σύλλα τὰ μεγάλα σφίσιν ἐνεγκεῖν παθήματα.	It is also said that one year before the war inflicted by Sulla, which brought great suffering upon the Athenians, the god caused ashes to rain down upon them.	Refers to the war inflicted by Sulla, a post-500 BC historical event, and the ashes are dated one year before it.