Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.32.9

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Passage 9.32.9: Lysander's massacre at Aegospotami and imposition of Spartan harmosts

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

τάδε μὲν Λυσάνδρῳ τὰ ἐς δόξαν ὑπάρχοντα ἦν, ἄλλα δὲ τοσάδε ὀνείδη. Φιλοκλέα γὰρ Ἀθηναῖον ἐν Αἰγὸς ποταμοῖς καὶ αὐτὸν στρατηγοῦντα καὶ Ἀθηναίων τῶν ἄλλων ὅσον τετρακισχιλίους αἰχμαλώτους ὄντας ἀπέκτεινεν ὁ Λύσανδρος καί σφισιν οὐδὲ ἀποθανοῦσιν ἐπήνεγκε γῆν, ὃ καὶ Μήδων τοῖς ἀποβᾶσιν ἐς Μαραθῶνα ὑπῆρξε παρὰ Ἀθηναίων καὶ αὐτῶν Λακεδαιμονίων τοῖς πεσοῦσιν ἐν Θερμοπύλαις ἐκ βασιλέως Ξέρξου. μείζονα δὲ ἔτι Λακεδαιμονίοις ὀνείδη γενέσθαι παρεσκεύασεν ὁ Λύσανδρος ἐπί τε δεκαδαρχίαις ἃς κατέστησε ταῖς πόλεσι καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς Λάκωσιν ἁρμοσταῖς.

English Translation

Such were the deeds that brought glory to Lysander, but there were also deeds equally numerous which brought him reproach. At Aegospotami Lysander put to death Philocles the Athenian general, along with approximately four thousand other Athenians whom he had taken prisoner; and not even earth for burial was given to them after death, a concession that the Athenians had granted even to the Persians who landed at Marathon, and one likewise granted by the Persian king Xerxes to the Spartans who had fallen at Thermopylae. Lysander caused even greater disgrace to the Lacedaemonians by establishing the rule of ten men ("decadarchies") in the cities and by stationing Spartan governors ("harmosts") to control them.

Proper Nouns

decararchies (δεκαδαρχίαι) other
Laconians (Λάκωνες) person
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Lysander (Λύσανδρος) person
Medes (Μῆδοι) person
Xerxes (Ξέρξης) person
Philocles (Φιλοκλῆς) person
Athenians (Ἀθηναῖοι) person
Athenian (Ἀθηναῖος) person
Aegospotami (Αἶγος Ποταμοί) place Q404513
Thermopylae (Θερμοπύλαι) place Q194450 Pleiades
Marathon (Μαραθών) place Q212150 Pleiades
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