Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.26.1

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Passage 4.26.1: Naupactus and Messenian slingers aid Athens at Sphacteria

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τούτου τόν τε ἄλλον χρόνον ἐνέκειτό σφισι τὸ ἐς Λακεδαιμονίους μῖσος καὶ τὴν ἔχθραν ἐς αὐτοὺς μάλιστα ἐπεδείξαντο ἐπὶ τοῦ γενομένου Πελοποννησίοις πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πολέμου· τήν τε γὰρ Ναύπακτον ὁρμητήριον ἐπὶ τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ παρείχοντο καὶ τοὺς ἐν τῇ Σφακτηρίᾳ Σπαρτιατῶν ἀποληφθέντας Μεσσηνίων σφενδονῆται τῶν ἐκ Ναυπάκτου συνεξεῖλον.

English Translation

From this time onward their hatred against the Lacedaemonians persisted, and they demonstrated their hostility most strongly during the war which broke out between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; for they offered Naupactus as a base to operate against the Peloponnese, and Messenian slingers from Naupactus assisted in cutting off the Spartans who had been trapped on the island of Sphacteria.

Proper Nouns

Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Messenians (Μεσσήνιοι) person
Peloponnesians (Πελοποννήσιοι) person
Spartan (Σπαρτιάτης) person
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Naupactus (Ναύπακτος) place Q56398924
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος) place Q78967
Sphacteria (Σφακτηρία) place Q1303524
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