Pausanias Analysis

Passage 7.16.1

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Passage 7.16.1: Mummius assembles the Roman army at the Isthmus.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Μόμμιος δὲ Ὀρέστην ἅμα ἀγόμενος, τὸν πρότερον ἐπὶ τῇ Λακεδαιμονίων διαφορᾷ καὶ Ἀχαιῶν ἐλθόντα, ἀφίκετο μὲν περὶ ὄρθρον ἐς τὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων στράτευμα, ἀποπέμψας δὲ ἐς Μακεδονίαν Μέτελλον καὶ ὅσον εἵπετο ἐκείνῳ, ἀνέμενεν αὐτὸς ἐν τῷ ἰσθμῷ τὴν πᾶσαν ἀθροισθῆναι παρασκευήν. ἀφίκετο δὲ ἱππικὸν μὲν πεντακόσιοί τε καὶ τρισχίλιοι, τοῦ πεζοῦ δὲ ἀριθμὸς ἐγένετο ἐς μυριάδας δύο προσόντων καὶ τούτοις τρισχιλίων· ἐπῆλθον δὲ καὶ τοξόται Κρῆτες καὶ ἐκ Περγάμου τῆς ὑπὲρ Καΐκου Φιλοποίμην στρατιώτας ἄγων παρὰ Ἀττάλου.

English Translation

Mummius, having taken with him Orestes, who had earlier come during the dispute involving the Lacedaemonians and the Achaeans, reached the camp of the Romans around dawn. Having sent forward Metellus and the forces accompanying him into Macedonia, he himself waited at the Isthmus, until his whole army had assembled. The cavalry numbered three thousand five hundred, and the infantry amounted to twenty-three thousand men; there also arrived Cretan archers and Philopoemen, who led soldiers sent by Attalus from Pergamum beyond the Caicus.

Proper Nouns

Cretans (Κρῆτες) person
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Metellus (Μέτελλος) person
Mommius (Μόμμιος) person
Philopoemen (Φιλοποίμην) person
Attalus (Ἀτταλος) person
Also in: 8.7.7
Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί) person
Orestes (Ὀρέστης) person
Romans (Ῥωμαῖοι) person
Caicus (Καΐκος) place Q1737602
Macedonia (Μακεδονία) place Q83958
Pergamum (Πέργαμος) place Q18986
Isthmus (Ἰσθμός) place Q215200
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