Pausanias Analysis

Passage 7.13.5

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Passage 7.13.5: Damocritus fined as traitor and Diaeus pauses war awaiting Roman mediators.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Δαμοκρίτῳ μὲν οὖν ἀπαγαγόντι ὀπίσω τὴν στρατιὰν ἐπιβάλλουσιν οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ ζημίαν πεντήκοντα ἅτε ἀνδρὶ προδότῃ τάλαντα, καὶ---οὐ γὰρ εἶχεν ἐκτῖσαι--- φεύγων ᾤχετο ἐκ Πελοποννήσου· Δίαιος δὲ Ἀχαιῶν μετὰ Δαμόκριτον στρατηγεῖν ᾑρημένος ἀποστείλαντι αὖθις Μετέλλῳ πρέσβεις ὡμολόγησε μηδένα ἐπάξειν Λακεδαιμονίοις πόλεμον, ἀλλὰ ἔστʼ ἂν ἥκωσιν ἐκ Ῥώμης, ἀναμενεῖν τοὺς διαλλακτάς.

English Translation

After Damocritus thus brought the army back again, the Achaeans imposed on him a penalty of fifty talents, convicting him as a traitor. Since he could not pay, he fled and departed from the Peloponnese. Diaeus, who was chosen to command the Achaeans after Damocritus, agreed, upon Metellus again sending ambassadors, that he would not wage war against the Lacedaemonians, but would await the mediators coming from Rome.

Proper Nouns

Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) people
Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί) people
Diaios (Δίαιος) person Q2066030
Damocritus (Δαμοκρίτης) person Q15623025
Also in: 6.8.5 7.13.3
Metellus (Μετέλλος) person
Also in: 7.15.4
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος) place Q78967
Rome (Ῥώμη) place Q220 Pleiades
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