Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. Friedrich Spiro. Leipzig. 1903.
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Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. Friedrich Spiro. Leipzig. 1903.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.
Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως (Greek) (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.)
Scroll I. Attica
subject heading(s): epi (+ dative case) ‘in responsiveness to’
The syntax of the preposition epi (+ dative case) is analyzed in my comment at 1.14.6. In the context of 1.14.6, the dative case that goes with the preposition epi there involves the persona of a cult hero, Erikhthonios. In the present context, there is no involvement of a hero, though the dead at Marathon were in the course of time treated as cult heroes. That is why I apply here as well my experimental translation ‘in responsiveness to’.