Pausanias Analysis

Passage 3.8.6

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Passage 3.8.6: Spartan occupation of Decelea and the plan by Agis and Lysander to destroy Athens

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐνέβαλλε δὲ καὶ ἐς τὴν Ἀττικὴν συνεχῶς ὁ Ἆγις στρατιᾷ καὶ ἐπετείχισε φρούριον Ἀθηναίοις τὸ ἐν Δεκελείᾳ· καταλυθέντος δὲ ἐν Αἰγὸς ποταμοῖς τοῦ Ἀθηναίων ναυτικοῦ Λύσανδρος ὁ Ἀριστοκρίτου καὶ Ἆγις ὅρκους μὲν θεῶν ὑπερέβησαν, οὓς ὤμοσαν Ἀθηναίοις ἐν κοινῷ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, κατὰ σφᾶς δὲ αὐτοὶ καὶ οὐ μετὰ Σπαρτιατῶν τοῦ κοινοῦ τὸ βούλευμα ἐς τοὺς συμμάχους ἐξήνεγκαν ἐκκόψαι προρρίζους τὰς Ἀθήνας.

English Translation

Agis was also continually invading Attica with his army and established a fortress against the Athenians at Decelea. When the Athenian fleet had been destroyed at Aegospotami, Lysander, son of Aristocritus, and Agis violated the oaths sworn before the gods by the Lacedaemonians collectively to the Athenians; and acting on their own initiative, without consulting the common Spartan assembly, they put forward to their allies the decision to destroy Athens utterly from its foundations.

Proper Nouns

god (θεός) deity
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Lysander (Λύσανδρος) person
Spartiates (Σπαρτιᾶται) person
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Aristocritus (Ἀριστοκρίτης) person
Agis (Ἆγις) person
Aegospotami (Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί) place Q404513
Also in: 4.17.3 6.3.15
Decelea (Δεκέλεια) place Q1006561
Athens (Ἀθῆναι) place Q844930
Attica (Ἀττική) place Q122443
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