Pausanias Analysis

Passage 4.5.4

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Passage 4.5.4: Spartan involvement in Delphi's sanctuary and alliance with tyrant Apollodorus

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ἀποφαίνουσι δὲ καὶ ἡνίκα οἱ Φωκέων δυνάσται τὸ ἱερὸν τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖς κατειλήφασιν, ἰδίᾳ τε κατὰ ἄνδρα τοὺς βασιλεύοντας ἐν Σπάρτῃ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τοὺς ἐπʼ ἀξιώματος καὶ κοινῇ τῶν τε ἐφόρων τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τὴν γερουσίαν μετασχόντας τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ. πρό τε δὴ πάντων, ὡς οὐδὲν ἂν τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους κέρδους ἕνεκα ὀκνήσαντας, τὴν συμμαχίαν ὀνειδίζουσί σφισι τὴν πρὸς Ἀπολλόδωρον τὸν ἐν Κασσανδρείᾳ τυραννήσαντα.

English Translation

And they demonstrate also how, when the leaders of the Phocians had seized the sanctuary at Delphi, those who ruled in Sparta, individually each king by himself, as well as the rest of the notable men, and collectively the ephorate and the senate, had shared in things sacred to the god. And above all, as evidence that the Lacedaemonians would shrink from nothing for the sake of gain, they reproach them for their alliance with Apollodorus, who was tyrant in Cassandreia.

Proper Nouns

Lacedaemonian (Λακεδαιμόνιος) person
Apollodorus (Ἀπολλόδωρος) person
Delphi (Δελφοί) place Q75459 Pleiades
Cassandreia (Κασσάνδρεια) place Q81248
Also in: 5.23.3
Sparta (Σπάρτη) place Q5690 Pleiades
Phocis (Φωκεύς) place Q2637650
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