Pausanias, Description of Greece, W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator), 10.37.4

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[4]
The length of the road from Delphi to Cirrha , the port of Delphi , is sixty stades. Descending to the plain you come to a race-course, where at the Pythian games the horses compete. I have told in my account of Elis ¹ the story of the Taraxippus at Olympia , and it is likely that the race-course of Apollo too may possibly harm here and there a driver, for heaven in every activity of man bestows either better fortune or worse. But the race-course itself is not of a nature to startle the horses, either by reason of a hero or on any other account.

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.) — 10.37.4 focus

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ἐς δὲ Κίρραν τὸ ἐπίνειον Δελφῶν ὁδὸς μὲν σταδίων ἑξήκοντά ἐστιν ἐκ Δελφῶν· καταβάντι δὲ ἐς τὸ πεδίον ἱππόδρομός τέ ἐστι καὶ ἀγῶνα Πύθια ἄγουσιν ἐνταῦθα τὸν ἱππικόν. τὰ μὲν δὴ ἐς τὸν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ Ταράξιππον ἐδήλωσέ μοι τὰ ἐς Ἠλείους τοῦ λόγου, ὁ δὲ ἱππόδρομος ἔοικε τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τάχα μέν που καὶ αὐτὸς τῶν ἱππευόντων τινὰ ἀνιᾶσαι, ἅτε ἀνθρώποις τοῦ δαίμονος ὁμοίως ἐπὶ ἔργῳ παντὶ καὶ ἀμείνω καὶ τὰ χείρω νέμοντος· οὐ μέντοι καὶ αὐτὸς ταραχὴν τοῖς ἵπποις ὁ ἱππόδρομος οὔτε κατὰ αἰτίαν ἥρωος οὔτε ἐπʼ ἄλλῃ πέφυκεν ἐργάζεσθαι προφάσει.

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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.) — 10.37.4 focus

[4] The length of the road from Delphi to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, is sixty stadium-lengths. Descending to the plain you come to a race-course, where at the Pythian Games the horses compete. I have told in my account of Elis the story of the Taraxippos at Olympia, and it is likely that the race-course of Apollo too may possibly harm here and there a driver, for the superhuman force [ daimōn] in every activity of man bestows either better fortune or worse. But the race-course itself is not of a nature to startle the horses, either by reason of a hero or on any other account.

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Description of Greece

1. Paus. 6.20.15

Pausanias Description of Greece 10.37.4

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