Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 9.14.3

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[3] and received the following response:

“A care to me is shady Leuktra, and so is the Alesian soil;
A care to me are the two sorrowful girls of Scedasus.
There a tearful battle is nigh, and no one will foretell it,
Until the Dorians have lost their glorious youth,
When the day of fate has come.
Then may Ceressus be captured, but at no other time.”

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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Editions (1)

Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 9.14.3 focus

[3] αὐτοῖς γίνεται μάντευμα τοιόνδε·

Λεῦκτρά τέ μοι σκιόεντα μέλει καὶ Ἀλήσιον οὖδας,

καί μοι τὼ Σκεδάσου μέλετον δυσπενθέε κούρα.

ἔνθα μάχη πολύδακρυς ἐπέρχεται· οὐδέ τις αὐτήν

φράσσεται ἀνθρώπων, πρὶν κούριον ἀγλαὸν ἥβην

Δωριέες ὀλέσωσʼ, ὅταν αἴσιμον ἦμαρ ἐπέλθῃ.

τουτάκι δʼ ἔστι Κερησσὸς ἁλώσιμος, ἄλλοτε δʼ οὐχί.

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.) — 9.14.3 focus

[3] and received the following response:—

A care to me is shady Leuctra, and so is the Alesian soil;

A care to me are the two sorrowful girls of Scedasus.

There a tearful battle is nigh, and no one will foretell it,

Until the Dorians have lost their glorious youth,

When the day of fate has come.

Then may Ceressus be captured, but at no other time.

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

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