Pausanias Analysis

Passage 7.16.9

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Passage 7.16.9: Mummius punishes Greek cities: walls torn down, democracies abolished, tribute imposed.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

πόλεων δέ, ὅσαι Ῥωμαίων ἐναντία ἐπολέμησαν, τείχη μὲν ὁ Μόμμιος κατέλυε καὶ ὅπλα ἀφῃρεῖτο πρὶν ἢ καὶ συμβούλους ἀποσταλῆναι παρὰ Ῥωμαίων· ὡς δὲ ἀφίκοντο οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ βουλευσόμενοι, ἐνταῦθα δημοκρατίας μὲν κατέπαυε, καθίστα δὲ ἀπὸ τιμημάτων τὰς ἀρχάς· καὶ φόρος τε ἐτάχθη τῇ Ἑλλάδι καὶ οἱ τὰ χρήματα ἔχοντες ἐκωλύοντο ἐν τῇ ὑπερορίᾳ κτᾶσθαι· συνέδριά τε κατὰ ἔθνος τὰ ἑκάστων, Ἀχαιῶν καὶ τὸ ἐν Φωκεῦσιν ἢ Βοιωτοῖς ἢ ἑτέρωθί που τῆς Ἑλλάδος, κατελέλυτο ὁμοίως πάντα.

English Translation

As for the cities which took up arms and fought against the Romans, Mummius pulled down their walls and took away their weapons even before the commissioners sent by the Romans had arrived. When those advisers joined him to conduct their deliberations, he abolished democracies and established magistracies based upon property qualifications. Tribute was imposed upon Greece, and those who held property were forbidden to acquire possessions abroad. The assemblies according to each people's nationality—the Achaean assembly, as well as those held among the Phocians or Boeotians, or anywhere else in Greece—all these were equally abolished.

Proper Nouns

Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) person
Mommius (Μόμμιος) person
Phocians (Φωκεῖς) person
Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί) person
Romans (Ῥωμαῖοι) person
Hellas (Ἑλλάς) place Q7798
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