Pausanias, Description of Greece, W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator), 1.27.7

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[7]
One of the Troezenian legends about Theseus is the following. When Heracles visited Pittheus at Troezen , he laid aside his lion's skin to eat his dinner, and there came in to see him some Troezenian children with Theseus, then about seven years of age. The story goes that when they saw the skin the other children ran away, but Theseus slipped out not much afraid, seized an axe from the servants and straightway attacked the skin in earnest, thinking it to be a lion.

Description of Greece. Pausanias. W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1918-1935.

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Description of Greece (English) (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.)

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 1.27.7 focus

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τῶν δὲ ἐν Τροιζῆνι λόγων, οὓς ἐς Θησέα λέγουσιν, ἐστὶν ὡς Ἡρακλῆς ἐς Τροιζῆνα ἐλθὼν παρὰ Πιτθέα καταθεῖτο ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ τοῦ λέοντος τὸ δέρμα, ἐσέλθοιεν δὲ παρʼ αὐτὸν ἄλλοι τε Τροιζηνίων παῖδες καὶ Θησεὺς ἕβδομον μάλιστα γεγονὼς ἔτος· τοὺς μὲν δὴ λοιποὺς παῖδας, ὡς τὸ δέρμα εἶδον, φεύγοντάς φασιν οἴχεσθαι, Θησέα δὲ ὑπεξελθόντα οὐκ ἄγαν σὺν φόβῳ παρὰ τῶν διακόνων ἁρπάσαι πέλεκυν καὶ αὐτίκα ἐπιέναι σπουδῇ, λέοντα εἶναι τὸ δέρμα ἡγούμενον.

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English (Jones and Ormerod; retranslated Gregory Nagy, CHS, 2018) (OCR draft) Experimental (CHS Pausanias Reader retranslation by Gregory Nagy, based on Jones and Ormerod, with marked Greek terms, notes, quotations, and bibliographic attributions preserved.) — 1.27.7 focus

[7] One of the Troizenian stories [ logoi] about Theseus is the following. When Hēraklēs visited Pittheus at Troizen, he laid aside his lion’s skin to eat his dinner, and there came in to see him some Troizenian children together with Theseus, then about seven years of age. It is said that when they saw the skin the other children ran away, but Theseus slipped out not much afraid, seized an axe [ pelekus] from the attendants [ diakonoi], and straightway attacked the skin in earnest, thinking it to be a lion.

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