Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.13.12

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Passage 9.13.12: Lacedaemonian losses: over 1,000 killed; Thebans 47

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

ὡς δὲ τῶν συμμάχων οἱ μὲν οὐδὲ ἀρχὴν ἀνῃροῦντο ἅτε οὐ τεθνεῶτός σφισιν οὐδενός, τῶν δὲ ὀλίγον ἐφαίνετο εἶναι τὸ διεφθαρμένον, οὕτω Λακεδαιμόνιοί τε ἔθαπτον τοὺς αὑτῶν καὶ ἤδη Σπαρτιάτας ἐξελήλεγκτο εἶναι τοὺς κειμένους. ἀπέθανον δὲ Θηβαίων τε καὶ ὅσοι παρέμειναν Βοιωτῶν ἑπτὰ καὶ τεσσαράκοντα ἄνδρες, Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ αὐτῶν πλείους ἢ χίλιοι.

English Translation

Since some of their allies entirely denied having casualties, claiming that none of their men had fallen, and others appeared to have suffered only slight losses, the Lacedaemonians buried their own dead, and it had by this time become clear that those lying there were Spartans. Of the Thebans and those of the Boeotians who had remained with them, forty-seven men perished, while of the Lacedaemonians themselves more than a thousand were killed.

Proper Nouns

Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) person
Thebans (Θηβαῖοι) person
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Spartiates (Σπαρτιάται) person
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