Pausanias Description of Greece 1.20.7

[7] Sulla did not relent in his anger against the Athenians, and so a few who managed to escape to Delphi inquired there whether the time had now come when it was fated for even Athens to become a deserted place. The Pythia said-in-an-oracular-pronouncement [ khrē-] the-things-having-to-do-with the ‘wine-skin’ [ askos]. Afterwards, Sulla was afflicted with that disease [ nosos], which I learn also afflicted Pherecydes of Syros. Although Sulla treated the Athenian people in a way that was so savage as to be unseemly for a Roman, I do not think that this was the cause [ aitiā] of his misfortune [ sumphorā]. What caused it, rather, was I think the cosmic-anger [ mēnīma] of the Lord-of-Suppliants [ Hikesios], for he [= Sulla] had dragged Aristion from the sanctuary [ hieron] of Athena, where he had sought asylum, and killed him. Thus was Athens afflicted by the war with Rome, but it blossomed [ antheîn] again when Hadrian was-‘King’ [ basileuein].