Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.7.5

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Passage 9.7.5: Sulla strips Thebes of half its land and seizes offerings from Greek sanctuaries.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

Σύλλας δὲ ἐς αὐτοὺς ἐχρῆτο ὅμως τῷ θυμῷ, καὶ ἄλλα τε ἐξεῦρεν ἐπὶ λύμῃ τῶν Θηβαίων καὶ τὴν ἡμίσειαν ἀπετέμετο αὐτῶν τῆς χώρας κατὰ πρόφασιν τοιαύτην. ἡνίκα ἤρχετο τοῦ πρὸς Μιθριδάτην πολέμου, χρημάτων ἐσπάνιζε· συνέλεξεν οὖν ἔκ τε Ὀλυμπίας ἀναθήματα καὶ τὰ ἐξ Ἐπιδαύρου καὶ τὰ ἐκ Δελφῶν, ὁπόσα ὑπελίποντο οἱ Φωκεῖς·

English Translation

Nevertheless, Sulla continued to bear a grudge against them, devising numerous other schemes to harm the Thebans; and under the following pretext he stripped them of half their territory. When he was setting out for the war against Mithridates, he was short of funds. He therefore gathered offerings from Olympia, and those from Epidaurus, as well as from Delphi, insofar as they had been spared by the Phocians.

Proper Nouns

Mithridates (Μιθριδάτης) person
Sulla (Σύλλας) person
Phocian (Φωκεύς) person
Delphi (Δελφοί) place Q75459 Pleiades
Thebes (Θῆβαι) place Q11225429
Epidaurus (Ἐπίδαυρος) place Q233576
Olympia (Ὀλυμπία) place Q38888 Pleiades
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