Pausanias Analysis

Passage 10.38.3

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Passage 10.38.3: First inhabitants wearing untanned, hairy animal-skin garments

Mythic Non-skeptical

Greek Text

λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡς οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν ἐνταῦθα ἀνθρώπων ἦσαν αὐτόχθονες, ἐσθῆτα δὲ οὐκ ἐπιστάμενοί πω ὑφαίνεσθαι σκέπην πρὸς τὸ ῥῖγος θηρίων δέρματα ἐποιοῦντο ἀδέψητα, τὸ δασὺ τῶν δερμάτων ἐς τὸ ἐκτὸς ὑπὲρ εὐπρεπείας τρέποντες· ἔμελλεν οὖν κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ταῖς βύρσαις καὶ ὁ χρώς σφισιν ἔσεσθαι δυσώδης.

English Translation

It is also said that the first inhabitants of this place were autochthonous, who, not yet knowing how to weave garments, fashioned for protection against the cold coverings made from the skins of animals, unprepared by tanning, turning the hairy side outward for appearance's sake. Consequently, their bodies must have become as malodorous as the skins themselves.

Proper Nouns

here/in this place (ἐνταῦθα) place
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