Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 1.5.5

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[5] These are the Athenian eponymous-heroes [ epōnumoi] who belong to the ancients [ arkhaioi]. And of later date than these they have subdivisions [ phūlai] named after the following: Attalos the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian, and within my own time* ‘King’ [ basileus]Hadrian , who was most observant in giving honor [ tīmē] to divinity [ tò theion] and who contributed very much to the happiness [ eudaimoniā] of those whom he ruled [ arkhein]. He never voluntarily entered upon a war, but he reduced the Hebrews [ Hebraioi] who lived beyond Syria; they had rebelled. As for the sanctuaries [ hiera] of the gods that in some cases he built from the beginning, in others adorned [ epi-kosmeîn] them with offerings [ anathēmata] and furnishings, and the gifts [ dōreai] he gave to cities that are Greek [ Hellēnides], and sometimes even to barbarians who asked him, all these acts are inscribed in his honor in the sanctuary [ hieron] at Athens that is common [ koinon] to all the gods.

Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy. . .

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 1.5.5 focus

[5]
οἵδε μέν εἰσιν Ἀθηναίοις ἐπώνυμοι τῶν ἀρχαίων· ὕστερον δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶνδε φυλὰς ἔχουσιν, Ἀττάλου τοῦ Μυσοῦ καὶ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Αἰγυπτίου καὶ κατʼ ἐμὲ ἤδη βασιλέως Ἀδριανοῦ τῆς τε ἐς τὸ θεῖον τιμῆς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐλθόντος καὶ τῶν ἀρχομένων ἐς εὐδαιμονίαν τὰ μέγιστα ἑκάστοις παρασχομένου. καὶ ἐς μὲν πόλεμον οὐδένα ἑκούσιος κατέστη, Ἑβραίους δὲ τοὺς ὑπὲρ Σύρων ἐχειρώσατο ἀποστάντας· ὁπόσα δὲ θεῶν ἱερὰ τὰ μὲν ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐξ ἀρχῆς, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἐπεκόσμησεν ἀναθήμασι καὶ κατασκευαῖς ἢ δωρεὰς πόλεσιν ἔδωκεν Ἑλληνίσι, τὰς δὲ καὶ τῶν βαρβάρων τοῖς δεηθεῖσιν, ἔστιν οἱ πάντα γεγραμμένα Ἀθήνῃσιν ἐν τῷ κοινῷ τῶν θεῶν ἱερῷ.

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Description of Greece Perseus (Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.) — 1.5.5 focus

[5]
These are the Athenian eponymoi who belong to the ancients. And of later date than these they have tribes named after the following, Attalus¹ the Mysian and Ptolemy the Egyptian,² and within my own time the emperor Hadrian³, who was extremely religious in the respect he paid to the deity and contributed very much to the happiness of his various subjects. He never voluntarily entered upon a war, but he reduced the Hebrews beyond Syria, who had rebelled.⁴ As for the sanctuaries of the gods that in some cases he built from the beginning, in others adorned with offerings and furniture, and the bounties he gave to Greek cities, and sometimes even to foreigners who asked him, all these acts are inscribed in his honor in the sanctuary at Athens common to all the gods.

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