Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 4.14.5

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[5] As to the wanton punishments which they inflicted on the Messenians, this is what is said in Tyrtaeus’ poems:

“Like asses worn by their great burdens, bringing of dire necessity to their masters the half of all the fruits the wheat-land bears.”

Tyrtaeus, unknown location.

That they were compelled to share their mourning, he shows by the following:

“Wailing for their masters, they and their wives alike, whensoever the baneful doom of death came upon any.”

Tyrtaeus, unknown location.

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

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English (Jones and Ormerod; retranslated Gregory Nagy, CHS, 2018) (OCR draft) (English) (CHS Pausanias Reader retranslation by Gregory Nagy, based on Jones and Ormerod, with marked Greek terms, notes, quotations, and bibliographic attributions preserved.)

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 4.14.5 focus

[5] ἐς τιμωρίας δὲ ἃς ὕβριζον ἐς τοὺς Μεσσηνίους, Τυρταίῳ πεποιημένα ἐστὶν

ὥσπερ ὄνοι μεγάλοις ἄχθεσι τειρόμενοι,

δεσποσύνοισι φέροντες ἀναγκαίης ὑπὸ λυγρῆς

ἥμισυ πᾶν ὅσσων καρπὸν ἄρουρα φέρει.

Tyrtaeus, unknown location. ὅτι δὲ καὶ συμπενθεῖν ἔκειτο αὐτοῖς ἀνάγκη, δεδήλωκεν ἐν τῷδε·

δεσπότας οἰμώζοντες, ὁμῶς ἄλοχοί τε καὶ αὐτοί,

εὖτέ τινʼ οὐλομένη μοῖρα κίχοι θανάτου.

Tyrtaeus, unknown location.

Translations (1)

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.) — 4.14.5 focus

[5] As to the wanton punishments which they inflicted on the Messenians, this is what is said in Tyrtaeus' poems:

Like asses worn by their great burdens, bringing of dire necessity to their masters the half of all the fruits the corn-land bears.

Tyrtaeus, unknown location. That they were compelled to share their mourning, he shows by the following:

Wailing for their masters, they and their wives alike, whensoever the baneful doom of death came upon any.

Tyrtaeus, unknown location.

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