Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.34.1

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Passage 4.34.1: The Pamisos River near Messene

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐκ δὲ Μεσσήνης ὑπὸ τοῦ Παμίσου τὸ στόμα ὁδὸς μὲν σταδίων ἐστὶν ὀγδοήκοντα, ῥεῖ δὲ ὁ Πάμισος διά τε ἀρουμένης καὶ καθαρὸς καὶ ἀναπλεῖται ναυσὶν ἐκ θαλάσσης ἐπὶ δέκα που σταδίους· ἀναθέουσι δὲ ἐς αὐτὸν καὶ οἱ θαλάσσιοι τῶν ἰχθύων περὶ ὥραν μάλιστα τοῦ ἦρος. τὸ δὲ αὐτὸ ἐς Ῥῆνόν τε καὶ ἐς τὸν Μαίανδρον ποιοῦσιν οἱ ἰχθῦς· μάλιστα δὲ ἀνὰ τὸ ῥεῦμα τὸ Ἀχελῴου νήχονται τοῦ ἐκδιδόντος κατὰ νήσους τὰς Ἐχινάδας.

English Translation

From Messene to the mouth of the Pamisos River is a journey of eighty stades. The Pamisos flows clearly through cultivated fields, and ships can sail up it from the sea for roughly ten stades. At the beginning of spring, the fish from the sea also swim upstream into it. Fish behave similarly in the Rhine and the Maeander rivers, but particularly in the current of the Acheloos, which empties into the sea by the Echinades islands.

Proper Nouns

Achelous (Ἀχελῷος) deity
Maeander (Μαίανδρος) place Q211089
Messene (Μεσσήνη) place Q1022117
Pamisos (Πάμισος) place Q3100663
Echinades (Ἐχινάδες) place Q767387
Rhine (Ῥῆνος) place
Also in: 4.34.2 8.28.2
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