Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.35.7

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Passage 4.35.7: Illyrian raid on Methone, abducting many men and women

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἐς δὲ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἀφικομένων ἐκ τῆς πόλεως πλειόνων παρέχουσι καὶ τοῖσδε κερδᾶναι· τέλος δὲ γυναῖκες καὶ ἄνδρες κατίασιν ἐπὶ τὰ πλοῖα οἶνόν τε ἀποδόσθαι καὶ ἐκ τῶν βαρβάρων ἀντιληψόμενοι. ἔνθα νῦν ἀποτολμήσαντες οἱ Ἰλλυριοὶ καὶ ἄνδρας πολλοὺς καὶ ἔτι πλείονας τῶν γυναικῶν ἁρπάζουσιν· ἐσθέμενοι δὲ ἐς τὰς ναῦς ἔπλεον τὴν ἐπὶ Ἰονίου, Μοθωναίων ἐρημώσαντες τὸ ἄστυ.

English Translation

On the following day, when a greater number arrived from the city, they also offered them opportunities to trade. Finally, women and men alike went down to the ships to sell wine and to procure goods from the barbarians in exchange. At this juncture the Illyrians, emboldened, seized many men and even more women, and, loading them into their vessels, sailed away towards the Ionian sea after having desolated the city of the Methonaeans.

Proper Nouns

Methonaeans (Μοθωναῖοι) person
Illyrians (Ἰλλυριοί) person
Ionian (Sea) (Ἰόνιον) place Q37495 Pleiades
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