Pausanias, Description of Greece, W.H.S. Jones (Translator), H.A. Ormerod (Translator), 8.52.6

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[6]
The inscription on the statue of Philopoemen at Tegea runs thus:—

The valor and glory of this man are famed throughout Greece, who worked

Many achievements by might and many by his counsels,

Philopoemen, the Arcadian spearman, whom great renown attended,

When he commanded the lances in war.

Witness are two trophies, won from the despots

Of Sparta ; the swelling flood of slavery he stayed.

Wherefore did Tegea set up in stone the great-hearted son of Craugis,

Author of blameless freedom.

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

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Current edition Perseus

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.) — 8.52.6 focus

[6]
τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμά ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῷ Φιλοποίμενι τὸ ἐν Τεγέᾳ·

τοῦδʼ ἀρετὰ καὶ δόξα καθʼ Ἑλλάδα, πολλὰ μὲν ἀλκαῖς,

πολλὰ δὲ καὶ βουλαῖς ἔργα πονησαμένου,

Ἀρκάδος αἰχμητᾶ Φιλοποίμενος, ᾧ μέγα κῦδος

ἕσπετʼ ἐνὶ πτολέμῳ δούρατος ἁγεμόνι.

μανύει δὲ τρόπαια τετυγμένα δισσὰ τυράννων

Σπάρτας· αὐξομέναν δʼ ἄρατο δουλοσύναν.

ὧν ἕνεκεν Τεγέα μεγαλόφρονα Κραύγιδος υἱόν

στᾶσεν, ἀμωμήτου κράντορʼ ἐλευθερίας.

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τοῦτο μὲν δὴ ἐνταῦθά ἐστιν ἐπίγραμμα·

Translations (1)

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.) — 8.52.6 focus

[6] The inscription on the statue of Philopoimen at Tegea runs thus:

“The valor and glory of this man are famed throughout Greece, who worked
Many achievements by might and many by his counsels,
Philopoimen, the Arcadian spearman, whom great renown attended,
When he commanded the lances in war.
Witness are two trophies, won from the despots
Of Sparta; the swelling flood of slavery he stayed.
Wherefore did Tegea set up in stone the great-hearted son of Kraugis,
Author of blameless freedom.”

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