Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Greece -- Antiquities; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Indian sages taught the immortality of the soul, iv. 32.
India famous for wild beasts, iv. 34; viii. 29.
Ino, i. 42, 44; iii. 23, 24, 26; iv. 34; ix. 5.
Inscriptions, ox-fashion, v. 17.
Inventions, source of, viii. 31.
Inundations, destruction caused by, vii. 24; viii. 14.
Io, daughter of Inachus, i. 25; iii. 18.
Iodama, ix. 34.
Iolaus, nephew of Hercules, vii. 2; viii. 14.
Shares in his uncle’s Labours, i. 19; viii. 45.
Kills Eurystheus, i. 44.
Colonizes Sardinia, vii. 2; x. 17.
His hero-chapel, ix. 23.
Ion, the son of Xuthus, i. 31; vii. 1.
Iphiclus, the father of Protesilaus, iv. 36; v. 17; x. 31.
Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, i. 33, 43; iii. 16; ix. 19.
Iphimedea, mother of Otus and Ephialtes, ix. 22; x. 28.
Iphitus, king of Elis, v. 4, 8; viii. 26.
Iphitus, the son of Eurytus, iii. 15; x. 13.
Iris, the flower, ix. 41.
Iron, first fused, iii. 12; x. 16.
Ischepolis, son of Alcathous, killed by the Calydonian boar, i. 42,
43.
Isis, the Egyptian goddess, i. 41; ii. 4, 13, 32, 34; v. 25; x. 32.
Ismenius, a river in Bœotia, ix. 9, 10.
Isocrates, i. 18.
Issedones, i. 24, 31; v. 7.
Isthmian games, i. 44; ii. 1, 2.
People of Elis excluded from them, v. 2; vi. 16.
Ister, river, viii. 28, 38.
Ithome, iv. 9, 13, 14, 24, 31.
Ivory, i. 12; v. 11, 12; vii. 27.
_Ivy-cuttings_, feast so called, ii. 13.
Jason, husband of Medea, ii. 3; v. 17.
Jay, anecdote about the, viii. 12.
Jerusalem, viii. 16.
Jocasta, ix. 5.
(Called Epicaste, ix. 26.)
Joppa, iv. 35.
Jordan, the famous river, v. 7.
Keys, the three keys of Greece, vii. 7.
Kites, idiosyncrasy of at Olympia, v. 14.
Labyrinth of the Minotaur in Crete, i. 27.
(Cf. Virg. Æneid, v. 588-591. Ovid, Metamorphoses, viii. 159-168.)
Lacedæmonians go out on campaign only when the moon is at its full,
i. 28.
Go out to battle not to the sound of the trumpet, but to flutes
lyres and harps, iii. 17.
Care not for poetry, iii. 8.
Tactics in battle, iv. 8.
Always conceal their losses in battle, ix. 13.
Their forces at Thermopylæ, x. 20.
Their kings, how tried, iii. 5.
Lacedæmonian dialect, iii. 15.
Brevity, iv. 7.
Laconia originally called Lelegia, iv. 1.
Ladder-pass, viii. 6.
Læstrygones, viii. 29; x. 22.
Lais, ii. 2.
Laius, son of Labdacus, King of Thebes, ix. 5, 26; x. 5.
Lamp of Athene, ever burning, i. 26.
Lampsacus, people of, anecdote about, vi. 18.
Great worshippers of Priapus, ix. 31.
Laomedon, father of Priam, vii. 20; viii. 36.
Lapithæ, their fight with the Centaurs, i. 17; v. 10.
La Rochefoucauld anticipated by Pindar. Note, x. 22.
Laurium, its silver mines, i. 1.
Law-courts at Athens, various names of, i. 28.
Leæna, mistress of Aristogiton, i. 23.
Lebadea in Bœotia, sacred to Trophonius, i. 34; ix. 39.
Lechæum, ii. 1, 2; ix. 14, 15; x. 37.
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