Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.35.1

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Passage 8.35.1: Road from Megalopolis toward Messene via Carnasium and Phaedria.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

αὕτη μὲν ἐπὶ Μεσσήνην, ἑτέρα δὲ ὁδὸς ἐκ Μεγάλης πόλεως ἐπὶ Καρνάσιον ἄγει τὸ Μεσσηνίων· καὶ ταύτῃ πρῶτα μέν σε ὁ Ἀλφειὸς ἐκδέξεται, καθότι καὶ Μαλοῦς καὶ ὁ Σκῦρος ἐς αὐτὸν κατέρχονται προανακοινωσάμενοι τὸ ῥεῦμα. αὐτόθεν δὲ ἔχων τὸν Μαλοῦντα ἐν δεξιᾷ μετὰ σταδίους ὡς τριάκοντα διαβήσῃ τε αὐτὸν καὶ ἀναβήσῃ διʼ ὁδοῦ προσαντεστέρας ἐς χωρίον καλούμενον Φαιδρίαν.

English Translation

This road leads toward Messene; a different route from Megalopolis leads to Carnasium, a place belonging to the Messenians. Taking this road, the Alpheius River first meets you, since the Malous and the Scyrus flow down into it, joining their streams beforehand. From this point, keeping the Malous on your right for about thirty stadia, you cross it and ascend by a steeper road toward a place called Phaedria.

Proper Nouns

Malous (Μαλοῦς) other
Messenians (Μεσσήνιοι) other
Skyros (Σκῦρος) other
Karnasium (Καρνάσιον) place Q28000806
Also in: 4.2.2 4.33.5
Megalopolis (Μεγάλη Πόλις) place Q36024972
Messene (Μεσσήνη) place Q1022117
Phaidria (Φαιδρία) place Q60791913
Alpheios (Ἀλφειός) place Q941745
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