Pausanias Analysis

Passage 6.23.6

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Passage 6.23.6: Statue of Sarapion, an Alexandrian boxer and benefactor who supplied grain to Elis.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τῆς ἐσόδου δὲ ἑκατέρωθεν τῆς ἐς τὴν Μαλθὼ παιδὸς ἕστηκεν εἰκὼν πύκτου· καὶ αὐτὸν ἔφασκεν ὁ νομοφύλαξ Ἠλείων γένος μὲν Ἀλεξανδρέα εἶναι τῆς ὑπὲρ Φάρου τῆς νήσου, Σαραπίωνα δὲ ὄνομα, ἀφικόμενον δὲ ἐς Ἦλιν σπανίζουσι σίτου σφίσι τροφὰς δοῦναι. τούτῳ μὲν αὐτόθι ἀντὶ τούτου γεγόνασιν αἱ τιμαί· χρόνος δὲ στεφάνου τε τοῦ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ εὐεργεσίας αὐτῷ τῆς ἐς Ἠλείους Ὀλυμπιὰς ἑβδόμη πρὸς ταῖς δέκα τε καὶ διακοσίαις.

English Translation

On either side of the entrance leading into the Maltho stands a statue of a boxer. The Elean curator of laws stated that this man was Alexandrian in descent, from the island situated beyond Pharos, named Sarapion, who, having come to Elis when the people were suffering a shortage of grain, provided provisions for them. In return, he was honored in that place. The time of his Olympic crown and his benefaction toward the Eleans was during the two hundred and seventeenth Olympiad.

Proper Nouns

Olympiad (Ὀλυμπιάς) other
Maltho (Μαλθὼ) person
Sarapion (Σαραπίων) person
Also in: 5.21.18
Alexandrian (Ἀλεξανδρεύς) person
Eleans (Ἠλεῖοι) person
Pharos (Φάρος) place Q2696558
Also in: 5.7.4
Elis (Ἦλις) place Q217667
Olympia (Ὀλυμπία) place Q38888 Pleiades
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