Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 3.17.7

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[7] By the side of the altar of the Lady of the Bronze House stand two statues of Pausanias, the general at Plataea. His history, as it is known, I will not relate. The accurate accounts of my predecessors suffice; I shall content myself with adding to them what I heard from a man of Byzantium. Pausanias was detected in his treachery, and was the only suppliant of the Lady of the Bronze House who failed to win security, solely because he had been unable to wipe away a defilement of bloodshed.

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.) — 3.17.7 focus

[7]
παρὰ δὲ τῆς Χαλκιοίκου τὸν βωμὸν ἑστήκασι δύο εἰκόνες Παυσανίου τοῦ περὶ Πλάταιαν ἡγησαμένου. τὰ δὲ ἐς αὐτὸν ὁποῖα ἐγένετο εἰδόσιν οὐ διηγήσομαι· τὰ γὰρ τοῖς πρότερον συγγραφέντα ἐπʼ ἀκριβὲς ἀποχρῶντα ἦν· ἐπεξελθεῖν δέ σφισιν ἀρκέσομαι. ἤκουσα δὲ ἀνδρὸς Βυζαντίου Παυσανίαν φωραθῆναί τε ἐφʼ οἷς ἐβουλεύετο καὶ μόνον τῶν ἱκετευσάντων τὴν Χαλκίοικον ἁμαρτεῖν ἀδείας κατʼ ἄλλο μὲν οὐδέν, φόνου δὲ ἄγος ἐκνίψασθαι μὴ δυνηθέντα.

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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.) — 3.17.7 focus

[7]
By the side of the altar of the Lady of the Bronze House stand two statues of Pausanias, the general at Plataea . His history, as it is known, I will not relate. The accurate accounts of my predecessors suffice; I shall content myself with adding to them what I heard from a man of Byzantium . Pausanias was detected in his treachery, and was the only suppliant of the Lady of the Bronze House who failed to win security, solely because he had been unable to wipe away a defilement of bloodshed.

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