Pausanias Analysis
Chapter 4.16
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Chapter 4.16
4.16.1: Seers Hecas and Theoclus offer pre-battle sacrifices for the Lacedaemonians and Messenians.
4.16.2: Anaxander leads the Spartans against the Messenians under Phintas and Androcles.
4.16.3: Aristomenes and his eighty Messenians defeat Anaxander's Spartan force.
4.16.4: Aristomenes routs the Spartan battle-line
4.16.5: Aristomenes loses his shield at a wild pear-tree, letting Lacedaemonians escape.
4.16.6: Aristomenes' triumphant return to Andania.
4.16.7: Shield dedicated at the sanctuary of Trophonius at Lebadeia.
4.16.8: Raid on Pharis (Pharae): Messenians sack the city, rout Spartans; King Anaxander wounded.
4.16.9: Ambush and abduction of the maidens of Caryae
4.16.10: Aristomenes slays drunken attackers and ransoms captive maidens, keeping them virgins