Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.11.3

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Passage 10.11.3: Lipareans' naval victory and Cnidian colonists led by Pentathlos.

Historical Skeptical

Greek Text

ἀνέθεσαν δὲ καὶ ἀνδριάντας Λιπαραῖοι ναυμαχίᾳ κρατήσαντες Τυρρηνῶν. οἱ δὲ Λιπαραῖοι οὗτοι Κνιδίων μὲν ἦσαν ἄποικοι, τῆς δὲ ἀποικίας ἡγεμόνα γενέσθαι φασὶν ἄνδρα Κνίδιον· ὄνομα δὲ εἶναί οἱ Πένταθλον Ἀντίοχος ὁ Ξενοφάνους Συρακούσιος ἐν τῇ Σικελιώτιδι συγγραφῇ φησι. λέγει δὲ καὶ ὡς ἐπὶ Παχύνῳ τῇ ἄκρᾳ τῇ ἐν Σικελίᾳ κτίσαντες πόλιν αὐτοὶ μὲν ἐκπίπτουσιν ὑπὸ Ἐλύμων καὶ Φοινίκων πολέμῳ πιεσθέντες, τὰς νήσους δὲ ἔσχον ἐρήμους ἔτι ἢ ἀναστήσαντες τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας, ἃς καὶ κατὰ τὰ τὰ ἔπη τὰ Ὁμήρεια Αἰόλου καὶ ἐς ἡμᾶς ἔτι ὀνομάζουσι.

English Translation

The Lipareans also dedicated statues after winning a naval battle against the Tyrrhenians. These Lipareans were colonists from Cnidus, and they say that a Cnidian man became the leader of the colony. According to Antiochus, son of Xenophanes, a Syracusan, in his History of Sicily, this man’s name was Pentathlos. Antiochus also says that after founding a city upon Cape Pachynus in Sicily, the colonists were driven out by the Elymians and Phoenicians following their defeat in war. Thus, they occupied the islands that were still uninhabited or expelled their previous inhabitants; these islands are called, even up to our own time, the islands of Aeolus according to the Homeric poems.

Proper Nouns

Aeolus (Αἴολος) deity Q172549
Cnidians (Κνίδιοι) person
Also in: 2.1.5 10.11.5
Cnidian (Κνίδιος) person
Also in: 10.9.9
Liparians (Λιπαραῖοι) person
Also in: 10.16.7
Xenophanes (Ξενοφάνης) person
Pentathlos (Πένταθλος) person
Syracusan (Συρακούσιος) person
Also in: 5.8.8 6.9.5
Tyrrhenians (Τυρρηνοί) person
Phoenicians (Φοίνικες) person
Antiochus (Ἀντίοχος) person
Elymians (Ἔλύμοι) person
Homer (Ὅμηρος) person
Pachynus (Παχύνη) place Q1034750
Sicily (Σικελία) place Q1460
Siceliote (Sicily) (Σικελιώτις) place Q85083276
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