Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. Friedrich Spiro, 1.13.3

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Πύρρος ἀπὸ θρασέων ἐκρέμασεν Γαλατᾶν,

πάντα τὸν Ἀντιγόνου καθελὼν στρατόν. οὐ μέγα θαῦμα·

αἰχματαὶ καὶ νῦν καὶ πάρος Αἰακίδαι.

τούτους μὲν δὴ ἐνταῦθα, τῷ δὲ ἐν Δωδώνῃ Διὶ Μακεδόνων ἀνέθηκεν αὐτῶν τὰς ἀσπίδας. ἐπιγέγραπται δὲ καὶ ταύταις·

αἵδε ποτʼ Ἀσίδα γαῖαν ἐπόρθησαν πολύχρυσον,

αἵδε καὶ Ἕλλασι ν δουλοσύναν ἔπορον.

νῦν δὲ Διὸς ναῶ ποτὶ κίονας ὀρφανὰ κεῖται

τᾶς μεγαλαυχήτω σκῦλα Μακεδονίας.

Πύρρῳ δὲ Μακεδόνας ἐς ἅπαν μὴ καταστρέψασθαι παρʼ ὀλίγον ὅμως ἥκοντι ἐγένετο Κλεώνυμος αἴτιος,

Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. Friedrich Spiro. Leipzig. 1903.

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

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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.) — 1.13.3 focus

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taken from the bold Gauls as a gift to Itonian

Athena, when he had destroyed all the host

of Antigonus. 'Tis no great marvel. The

Aeacidae are warriors now, even as they were

of old.

These shields then are here, but the bucklers of the Macedonians themselves he dedicated to Dodonian Zeus. They too have an inscription:—

These once ravaged golden Asia , and brought

slavery upon the Greeks. Now ownerless

they lie by the pillars of the temple of Zeus,

spoils of boastful Macedonia .

Pyrrhus came very near to reducing Macedonia entirely, but,

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.) — 1.13.3 focus

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hang up, Pyrrhos did, taking them from the bold Gauls [Galatai],
having destroyed the entire army of Antigonos. No big wonder [ thauma],
since the Aiakidai are masters of the spear, even now as also in the past.

These shields then are here, but the shields of the Macedonians themselves he dedicated to Dodonian Zeus. They too have an inscription:

These [shields] once ravaged the golden land of Asia,
and they brought slavery upon the Greeks [ Hellēnes].
Now ownerless they lie by the columns of the temple [ nāos] of Zeus,
spoils from boastful Macedonia.

Pyrrhos came very near to reducing Macedonia entirely, but,

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