Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.36.4

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Passage 8.36.4: Spring Nymphasia and the boundary of Megalopolis, Orchomenus, and Caphyae.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Μεθυδρίου δὲ ὡς τριάκοντα ἀπέχει σταδίους Νυμφασία πηγή· τοσοῦτοι δὲ ἀπὸ Νυμφασίας ἕτεροι πρὸς τοὺς Μεγαλοπολιτῶν εἰσι καὶ Ὀρχομενίων τε κοινοὺς καὶ Καφυατῶν ὅρους.

English Translation

From Methydrium at a distance of about thirty stades is a spring called Nymphasia; from Nymphasia it is likewise about another thirty stades to the boundaries shared jointly by the Megalopolitans, Orchomenians, and Caphyatans.

Proper Nouns

Caphyae (Κάφυαι) place Q2365548
Megalopolis (Μεγαλόπολις) place Q36024972
Also in: 8.27.15
Methydrion (Μεθύδριον) place Q60790161
Nymphasia (Νυμφασία) place Q3562955
Orchomenus (Ὀρχομενός) place Q13574822
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