Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.27.9

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Passage 4.27.9: The Messenians recover their homeland in Messenia after 287 years.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

κατῆλθον δὲ ἐς Πελοπόννησον οἱ Μεσσήνιοι καὶ ἀνεσώσαντο τὴν αὑτῶν ἑπτὰ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ διακοσίοις ἔτεσιν ὕστερον μετὰ Εἴρας ἅλωσιν, Δυσκινήτου μὲν Ἀθήνῃσιν ἄρχοντος, τρίτῳ δὲ ἔτει τῆς δευτέρας καὶ ἑκατοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν Δάμων Θούριος τὸ δεύτερον ἐνίκα. οὐκ ὀλίγος μὲν οὖν ὁ χρόνος καὶ Πλαταιεῦσιν ἐγένετο, ἐφʼ ὅσον καὶ ἐκεῖνοι τὴν αὑτῶν ἔφευγον, καὶ Δηλίοις, ἡνίκα ᾤκησαν Ἀδραμύττιον ἐκβληθέντες ἐκ τῆς σφετέρας ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων καὶ Ὀρχομενίων ·

English Translation

The Messenians returned to the Peloponnese and recovered their own land two hundred and eighty-seven years after the capture of Eira, in the archonship of Dyscinetus at Athens and in the third year of the hundred and second Olympiad, in which Damon of Thurii won his second victory. Indeed, the time during which the Plataeans also remained exiled from their land was no small one. Likewise with the Delians, when they settled Adramyttium after being expelled from their homeland by the Athenians and the Orchomenians.

Proper Nouns

Olympiad (Ὀλυμπιάς) other
Damon the Thourian (Δάμων Θούριος) person
Delians (Δηλίοι) person
Dyskinetos (Δυσκίνητος) person Q91013027
Messenians (Μεσσήνιοι) person
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Orchomenians (Ὀρχομένιοι) person
Ira (Εἴρα) place Q16575287
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος) place Q78967
Plataea (Πλάταιαι) place Q742538
Adramyttium (Ἀδραμύττιον) place Q3605584
Athens (Ἀθῆναι) place Q844930
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