Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. Friedrich Spiro, 9.15.6

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τῷ δὲ ἀνδριάντι τοῦ Ἐπαμινώνδου καὶ ἐλεγεῖα ἔπεστιν ἄλλα τε ἐς αὐτὸν λέγοντα καὶ ὅτι Μεσσήνης γένοιτο οἰκιστὴς καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ὑπάρξειεν ἐλευθερία διʼ αὐτοῦ. καὶ οὕτως ἔχει τὰ ἐλεγεῖα·

ἡμετέραις βουλαῖς Σπάρτη μὲν ἐκείρατο δόξαν,

Μεσσήνη δʼ ἱερὴ τέκνα χρόνῳ δέχεται·

Θήβης δʼ ὅπλοισιν Μεγάλη πόλις ἐστεφάνωται,

αὐτόνομος δʼ Ἑλλὰς πᾶσʼ ἐν ἐλευθερίῃ.

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τούτῳ μὲν τοσαῦτα ἦν ἐς δόξαν·

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.) — 9.15.6 focus

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On the statue of Epaminondas is an inscription in elegiac verse relating among other things that he founded Messene , and that through him the Greeks won freedom. The elegiac verses are these:—

By my counsels was Sparta shorn of her glory,

And holy Messene received at last her children.

By the arms of Thebe was Megalopolis encircled with walls,

And all Greece won independence and freedom.

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.) — 9.15.6 focus

[6] On the statue of Epameinondas is an inscription in elegiac verse relating among other things that he founded Messene, and that through him the Greeks won freedom. The elegiac verses are these:

“By my counsels was Sparta shorn of her glory,
And holy Messene received at last her children.
By the arms of Thebe was Megalopolis encircled with walls,
And all Greece won independence and freedom.”

Pausanias Description of Greece 9.15.6

ed. Friedrich Spiro

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