Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.14.4

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Passage 9.14.4: Epaminondas founds Megalopolis and reunites the Mantineans.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τότε δὲ ὁ Ἐπαμινώνδας ὡς τοὺς Θεσπιεῖς καταφεύγοντας ἐς τὸν Κερησσὸν ἐξεῖλε, πρὸς τὰ ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ παραυτίκα ἔσπευδεν ἅτε καὶ τῶν Ἀρκάδων προθύμως μεταπεμπομένων. ἐλθὼν δὲ Ἀργείους μὲν προσελάβετο ἑκουσίους συμμάχους, Μαντινέας δὲ κατὰ κώμας ὑπὸ Ἀγησιπόλιδος διῳκισμένους ἐς τὴν ἀρχαίαν συνήγαγεν αὖθις πόλιν· τὰ δὲ πολίσματα τὰ Ἀρκάδων ὁπόσα εἶχεν ἀσθενῶς καταλῦσαι πείσας τοὺς Ἀρκάδας, πατρίδα ἐν κοινῷ σφισιν ᾤκισεν, ἣ Μεγάλη καὶ ἐς ἡμᾶς ἔτι καλεῖται πόλις.

English Translation

Then Epaminondas, after removing the Thespians who had fled to Ceresus, immediately turned his attention toward affairs in the Peloponnese, as the Arcadians also were eagerly summoning him. When he arrived, the Argives willingly joined him as allies, and he reunited the Mantineans, who had been dispersed by Agesipolis into separate villages, back into their original city. Likewise, he persuaded the Arcadians to abandon the villages that were weakly held, settling them together into a common homeland, a city that even in our own time continues to be called Megalopolis.

Proper Nouns

Thespians (Θεσπιεῖς) person
Mantineans (Μαντινέαι) person
Agesipolis (Ἀγησίπολις) person
Argives (Ἀργεῖοι) person
Arcadians (Ἀρκάδες) person
Epaminondas (Ἐπαμινώνδας) person
Keryssos (Κερησσός) place
Also in: 9.14.2 9.14.3
Megalopolis (Μεγάλη Πόλις) place Q36024972
Peloponnese (Πελοπόννησος) place Q78967
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