Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.43.3

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Passage 8.43.3: Antoninus drives back the Mauri toward Mount Atlas.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ὁ δὲ Ἀντωνῖνος, ὅτῳ καὶ ἐς Παλλαντιεῖς ἐστιν εὐεργετήματα, πόλεμον μὲν Ῥωμαίοις ἐθελοντὴς ἐπηγάγετο οὐδένα, πολέμου δὲ ἄρξαντας Μαύρους, Λιβύων τῶν αὐτονόμων τὴν μεγίστην μοῖραν, νομάδας τε ὄντας καὶ τοσῷδε ἔτι δυσμαχωτέρους τοῦ Σκυθικοῦ γένους ὅσῳ μὴ ἐπὶ ἁμαξῶν, ἐπὶ ἵππων δὲ αὐτοί τε καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες ἠλῶντο, τούτους μὲν ἐξ ἁπάσης ἐλαύνων τῆς χώρας ἐς τὰ ἔσχατα ἠνάγκασεν ἀναφυγεῖν Λιβύης, ἐπί τε Ἄτλαντα τὸ ὄρος καὶ ἐς τοὺς πρὸς τῷ Ἄτλαντι ἀνθρώπους·

English Translation

Antoninus, who also granted benefactions to the people of Pallantium, never willingly brought war upon the Romans, yet he drove back the Mauri, who had initiated hostilities and constituted the largest portion of the autonomous Libyans. These nomadic tribes, even more troublesome in warfare than the Scythian race—for they and their women raided not from chariots but upon horseback—he expelled from all their territory and compelled to flee to the furthest boundaries of Libya, toward Mount Atlas and the communities dwelling around it.

Proper Nouns

Romans (Ῥωμαῖοι) other
Libyans (Λίβυες) person
Mauroi (Μαῦροι) person
Also in: 1.33.5
Scythians (Σκύθαι) person
Also in: 1.31.2 6.26.9
Antoninus (Ἀντωνῖνος) person
Libya (Λιβύη) place Q2370577
Pallantion (Παλλάντιον) place Q11939941
Atlas (Ἄτλας) place Q130135
Also in: 1.33.5 1.33.6
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