Pausanias Analysis

Passage 3.4.9

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Passage 3.4.9: Regency for Pleistarchus and the noble rescue of a Coan woman.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Παυσανίας δὲ ὁ Κλεομβρότου βασιλεὺς μὲν οὐκ ἐγένετο· ἐπιτροπεύων γὰρ Πλείσταρχον τὸν Λεωνίδου καταλειφθέντα ἔτι παῖδα ἐς Πλάταιάν τε Λακεδαιμονίους ἤγαγε καὶ ὕστερον ναυσὶν ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον. Παυσανίου δὲ τὸ ἔργον τὸ ἐς τὴν Κῴαν γυναῖκα ἐν ἐπαίνῳ τίθεμαι μάλιστα, ἥντινα ἀνδρὸς οὐκ ἀδόξου παρὰ Κῴοις θυγατέρα οὖσαν Ἡγητορίδου τοῦ Ἀνταγόρου Φαρανδάτης ὁ Τεάσπιδος, ἀνὴρ Πέρσης, παλλακὴν εἶχεν ἄκουσαν·

English Translation

Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, did not become king; rather, he acted as regent for Pleistarchus, the son of Leonidas, who had been left still a child. He led the Lacedaemonians to Plataea and later sailed with them in ships to the Hellespont. Among the acts of Pausanias, I particularly commend the noble deed concerning the woman of Cos: she was a daughter of Hegetorides, son of Antagoras, a man not without distinction among the Coans, and she had been taken forcibly as a concubine by Pharandates, son of Teaspis, a Persian.

Proper Nouns

Persian (Πέρσης) other
Cleombrotus (Κλεόμβροτος) person
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Leonidas (Λεωνίδας) person
Pausanias (Παυσανίας) person
Pleistarchos (Πλείσταρχος) person
Also in: 1.15.1 3.5.1
Teaspis (Τεάσπις) person
Pharandates (Φαρανδάτης) person
Antagoras (Ἀνταγόρας) person
Also in: 1.2.3
Hegetorides (Ἡγητορίδης) person
Koan (woman of Cos) (Κῴα) place
Cos (Κῶς) place Q187027 Pleiades
Plataea (Πλάταια) place Q742538
Hellespont (Ἑλλήσποντος) place Q1250462
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