Pausanias Analysis

Passage 7.10.5

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Passage 7.10.5: Athenian submission to Macedon after the battle of Lamia

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

βεβαιοῖ δέ μοι καὶ τόδε τὸν λόγον· Ἀθηναῖοι γὰρ μετὰ τὸ ἀτύχημα τὸ ἐν Βοιωτοῖς οὐκ ἐγένοντο Φιλίππου κατήκοοι, ἁλόντων μέν σφισι δισχιλίων, ὡς ἐκρατήθησαν, παρὰ τὸ ἔργον, χιλίων δὲ φονευθέντων· ἐν Λαμίᾳ δὲ περὶ διακοσίους πεσόντων καὶ οὐ πλέον τι, Μακεδόσιν ἐδουλώθησαν. οὕτω μὲν οὔποτε τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐπέλειπον οἱ ἐπὶ προδοσίᾳ νοσήσαντες· Ἀχαιοὺς δὲ ἀνὴρ Ἀχαιὸς Καλλικράτης τηνικαῦτα ἐς ἅπαν ἐποίει Ῥωμαίοις ὑποχειρίους. ἀρχὴ δέ σφισιν ἐγίνετο κακῶν Περσεὺς καὶ ἡ Μακεδόνων ἀρχὴ καταλυθεῖσα ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων.

English Translation

This fact also supports my assertion: for after the disaster that occurred in Boeotia, the Athenians did not submit themselves to Philip, although two thousand of their men were captured alive as they were defeated in battle, and one thousand slain. Yet later, though losing merely about two hundred men at Lamia, and no more, they became enslaved to Macedon. Thus, those who succumbed to treachery never failed to harm Greece. Likewise, among the Achaeans, an Achaean named Callicrates made them entirely subject to Rome at that time. But their calamities began through Perseus and the downfall of the Macedonian kingdom at Roman hands.

Proper Nouns

Kallikrates (Καλλικράτης) person
Macedonians (Μακεδόνες) person
Perseus (Περσεύς) person
Philip (Φίλιππος) person
Athenian (Ἀθηναῖος) person
Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί) person
Achaean (Ἀχαιός) person
Romans (Ῥωμαῖοι) person
Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) place Q187570
Lamia (Λαμία) place Q192980 Pleiades
Also in: 1.8.2 7.10.4
Hellas (Ἑλλάς) place Q7798
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