Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.23.4

← 4.23.3 4.23.5 →

Passage 4.23.4: Capture of Eira ends the Second Messenian War.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἑάλω δὲ ἡ Εἶρα καὶ ὁ πόλεμος ὁ δεύτερος Λακεδαιμονίων καὶ Μεσσηνίων τέλος ἔσχεν Ἀθηναίοις ἄρχοντος Αὐτοσθένους, ἔτει πρώτῳ τῆς ὀγδόης τε καὶ εἰκοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν ἐνίκα Χίονις Λάκων.

English Translation

Eira was taken, and the second war between the Lacedaemonians and the Messenians came to an end in the year when Autosthenes was archon at Athens, in the first year of the twenty-eighth Olympiad, in which Chionis the Spartan was victor.

Proper Nouns

Olympiad (Ὀλυμπιάς) other
Lacon (Λάκων) person
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Messenians (Μεσσήνιοι) person
Chionis (Χίονις) person
Also in: 3.14.3 4.23.10
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Eira (Εἶρα) place Q16575287
← 4.23.3 4.23.5 →