Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Greece -- Antiquities; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
So the Arcadians stoned Aristocrates to death, and cast him
unburied out of their borders, and put up a pillar in the temple of
Lycæan Zeus with the following inscription. “Time is sure to bring
justice at last to an unjust king, and time with Zeus’ cooperation has
easily found out Messene’s traitor. It is difficult for a perjured man
to escape the god. Hail, royal Zeus, and save Arcadia.”
CHAPTER XXIII.
And all the Messenians that were captured at Eira, or in any other
part of Messenia, were incorporated by the Lacedæmonians among the
Helots: and the people of Pylos and Mothone and all the maritime towns
removed in ships, after the capture of Eira, to Cyllene the arsenal
of Elis. And from there they sent to the Messenians in Arcadia,
wishing them to join them in an expedition to seek some city to dwell
in, and bade them make Aristomenes the founder of the colony. But he
said that for his part as long as he lived he would fight against the
Lacedæmonians, and that he knew very well that Sparta would always have
trouble through him: but he gave them Gorgus and Manticlus as their
leaders. Euergetidas also retired to Mount Lycæus with the rest of
the Messenians: and from thence, when he saw that Aristomenes’ plan
about the capture of Sparta had fallen through, having got together
about 50 of the Messenians he made a raid against the Lacedæmonians at
Eira, and falling in with them still plundering he turned their chant
of victory into a dirge. And fate seized him there, and Aristomenes
ordered the leaders of the Messenians, and whoever wished, to take part
in the colony to go to Cyllene. And all took part in it, except those
that were prevented by old age, or were destitute of means for dwelling
abroad. And these remained where they were among the Arcadians.
Eira was taken, and the second war between the Lacedæmonians and
the Messenians finished, in the Archonship over the Athenians of
Autosthenes, in the first year of the 28th Olympiad, in which Chionis
the Laconian was victor.
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