Pausanias Analysis

Passage 8.5.13

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Passage 8.5.13: Aristocrates stoned by Arcadians for betraying the Messenians.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τούτου δὲ υἱὸς ἐγένετο Ἱκέτας, Ἱκέτα δὲ Ἀριστοκράτης ἄλλος ὁμώνυμός τε τῷ προγόνῳ καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῦ βίου τὴν αὐτὴν ἔσχεν ἐκείνῳ τελευτήν· κατελίθωσαν γὰρ καὶ τοῦτον οἱ Ἀρκάδες, φωράσαντες δῶρα ἐκ Λακεδαίμονος εἰληφότα καὶ Μεσσηνίοις τὸ ἐπὶ τῇ Μεγάλῃ τάφρῳ πταῖσμα προδοσίαν τοῦ Ἀριστοκράτους οὖσαν. αὕτη δὲ ἡ ἀδικία καὶ τῷ γένει τῷ ἀπὸ Κυψέλου παντὶ παρέσχεν αἰτίαν παυσθῆναι τῆς ἀρχῆς.

English Translation

The son of this man was Hicetas, and the son of Hicetas was another Aristocrates, who shared his ancestor's name and, indeed, met with the same fate in the course of his life: for the Arcadians stoned him to death also, once they discovered that he had accepted bribes from Sparta, and that the disaster of the Messenians at the Great Trench was due to Aristocrates' treachery. This act of treachery provided grounds for depriving the whole family descended from Cypselus of their rule.

Proper Nouns

Messenians (Μεσσήνιοι) people
Arcadians (Ἀρκάδες) people
Kypselos (Κύψελος) person
Aristocrates (Ἀριστοκράτης) person
Hicetas (Ἱκέτας) person
Also in: 4.17.2
Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων) place Q5690 Pleiades
Great Ditch (Μεγάλη Τάφρος) place Q17646698
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