Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
History
Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Greece -- Antiquities; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Lacedæmonians and Bœotians, at the border of the Eleonian and Tanagræan
territory. And there is the tomb of the Thessalian cavalry who
remembered their ancient friendship to Athens, when the Peloponnesians
under Archidamas first invaded Attica: they are near the Cretan
archers. And again there are tombs of the Athenians, as of Clisthenes,
(who made the regulations for the tribes which are observed even
now,) and the cavalry who were slain on that day of danger, when the
Thessalians brought aid. Here too are the Cleonæi, who came with the
Argives into Attica: why they came I shall tell when I come to Argos.
Here too is the tomb of the Athenians who fought with the Æginetans
before the Persian War. And that was I ween a just decree of the people
that, if the Athenians gave a public burial to the slaves, their names
should be written on a pillar. And this proves that they behaved well
to their masters in the wars. And there are also monuments of other
valiant men, who fell fighting in various places: the most illustrious
of those that fought at Olynthus, and Melesander (who sailed in his
ships up the Mæander in Upper Caria), and those who fell in the war
with Cassander, and those Argives who were formerly the allies of the
Athenians. This alliance came about (they say) in the following manner.
There was an earthquake at Lacedæmon, and the Helots revolted and went
to Ithome: and when they revolted the Lacedæmonians sent for aid to
the Athenians and others: and they despatched to them picked men under
Cimon the son of Miltiades. These the Lacedæmonians sent back moved by
suspicion. And the Athenians thought such an outrage insufferable, and,
on their return home again, made an offensive and defensive alliance
with the Argives, who had always been the enemies of the Lacedæmonians.
And afterwards, when a battle between the Athenians and Bœotians and
Lacedæmonians was on the eve of taking place at Tanagra, the Argives
came to the aid of the Athenians. And when the Argives were having the
better of it, night came on and took away the certainty of victory,
and the next day the Lacedæmonians won the victory, the Thessalians
having betrayed the Athenians. I ought also to mention Apollodorus the
leader of the mercenaries, who was an Athenian, but had been sent by
Arsites, the satrap of Phrygia near the Hellespont, and had relieved
Perinthia, when Philip attacked it with an army. He is buried here,
with Eubulus the son of Spintharus, and other men who although they
deserved it did not meet with good fortune; some fell conspiring
against the tyrant Lachares, and others counselled the seizure of the
Piræus when the Macedonians guarded it, but before they could carry
out their plan they were informed against by their fellow-conspirators
and put to death. Here too are the tombs of those who fell at Corinth:
and it was palpably shewn here (and afterwards at Leuctra) by the
Deity, that those whom the Greeks call brave were nothing without
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