Pausanias Analysis

Passage 3.22.3

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Passage 3.22.3: Ruined fortress-walls of Trinasus by three small islands.

Historical Skeptical

Greek Text

ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ Γυθίου στάδια προελθόντι ὡς τριάκοντα ἔστιν ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ Τρινασοῦ καλουμένης τείχη, φρουρίου ποτὲ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν καὶ οὐ πόλεως. γενέσθαι δέ οἱ δοκῶ τὸ ὄνομα ἀπὸ τῶν νησίδων, αἳ ταύτῃ πρόκεινται τῆς ἠπείρου τρεῖς ἀριθμόν. προελθόντι δὲ ἀπὸ Τρινασοῦ στάδια ὡς ὀγδοήκοντα τοῦ Ἕλους τὰ ἐρείπια ὑπόλοιπα ἦν, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τριάκοντα

English Translation

On the left, about thirty stades beyond Gythium, upon the mainland, there exist walls of a site called Trinasus, which I believe were once those of a fortress rather than a city. I think it gets this name from the three small islands situated offshore at that place. About eighty stades from Trinasus were the surviving ruins of Helos, and thirty stades further along after these ruins...

Proper Nouns

Gytheion (Γύθειον) place Q56398303
Trinasos (Τρίνασος) place Q60792067
Helos (Ἕλος) place Q56670610
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