Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 4.17.11

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[11] The length of the siege is proved by these lines of the poet Rhianus, regarding the Lacedaemonians:

“In the folds of the white mountain were they encamped, for two and twenty winters and green herbs.

Rhianus, unknown location.

He reckons winters and summers, by ‘green herbs’ meaning the green wheat or the time just before harvest.

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.) — 4.17.11 focus

[11] τὸν δὲ χρόνον τῆς πολιορκίας γενέσθαι τοσοῦτον δηλοῖ καὶ τάδε ἔπη Ῥιανοῦ πεποιημένα ἐς τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους·

οὔρεος ἀργεννοῖο περὶ πτύχας ἐστρατόωντο

χείματά τε ποίας τε δύω καὶ εἴκοσι πάσας·

Rhianus, unknown location. χειμῶνας γὰρ καὶ θέρη κατέλεξε, πόας εἰπὼν τὸν χλωρὸν σῖτον ἢ ὀλίγον πρὸ ἀμητοῦ.

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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.) — 4.17.11 focus

[11] The length of the siege is proved by these lines of the poet Rhianus, regarding the Lacedaemonians:

In the folds of the white mountain were they encamped, for two and twenty winters and green herbs.

Rhianus, unknown location. He reckons winters and summers, by “green herbs” meaning the green corn or the time just before harvest.

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ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy

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