Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.36.4

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Passage 10.36.4: The Ambrossians' walls and agora

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

διάστημα δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ προτέρου τῶν κύκλων ἐπὶ τὸν δεύτερόν ἐστιν ὀργυιά· κατασκευὴ δὲ πύργων ἢ ἐπάλξεων ἢ εἴ τι ἄλλο ἐς εὐπρέπειαν τείχους, παρεῖται τὰ πάντα σφίσιν ἅτε τειχίζουσιν ἐπὶ μόνῳ τῷ αὐτίκα ἀμύνεσθαι. ἔστι δὲ ἀγορά τε Ἀμβροσσεῦσιν οὐ μεγάλη καὶ ἀνδριάντων ἐν αὐτῇ λίθου πεποιημένων κατεάγασιν οἱ πολλοί.

English Translation

The interval from the outer of these circuits to the inner one equals one fathom; as for the building of towers or battlements or any other decorative feature of the wall, they omitted all of these, since their fortification had only immediate defense as its purpose. The Ambrossians have an agora, which is not large, and in it stand statues fashioned from stone, most of which are now broken.

Proper Nouns

Ambrosseis (Ἀμβροσσεῖς) place
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