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
Praxiteles, the famous, lover of Phryne, i. 2, 20, 23, 40, 43, 44;
ii. 21; v. 17; vi. 26; ix. 1, 2, 11, 27, 39; x. 15, 37.
Priam, ii. 24; iv. 17; x. 25, 27.
Priapus, ix. 31.
Processions, i. 2, 29; ii. 35; vii. 18; x. 18.
Procne, i. 24, 41.
Procrustes, i. 38.
Prœtus, ii. 7, 12, 16, 25; viii. 18; x. 10.
Prometheus, ii. 14, 19; v. 10; x. 4.
Promontory called _Ass’ jawbone_, iii. 22, 23.
Prophetical men and women, x. 12, with Note.
Proserpine, i. 38; ii. 36; iv. 30; viii. 31, 42, 53; ix. 23, 31.
Proteus, iii. 18; viii. 53.
Proverbs, see ii. 9; iv. 17; vi. 3, 10; vii. 12; ix. 9, 30, 37; x. 1,
14, 17, 29.
Providence, v. 25.
Prusias, viii. 11.
Psamathe, i. 43; ii. 19.
Psyttalea, island of, i. 36; iv. 36.
Ptolemies proud of calling themselves Macedonians, x. 7, cf. vi. 3.
Much about the various Ptolemies in, i. 6, 7, 8, 9.
Purple, iii. 21; v. 12.
Puteoli, iv. 35; viii. 7.
Pylades, i. 22; ii. 16, 29; iii. 1.
Pylæ, that is Thermopylæ, ix. 15.
Pylos, iv. 2, 3, 31, 36.
Pyramids, ix. 36.
Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus), the son of Achilles, i. 4, 11, 13; ii. 23;
iii. 20, 25, 26; iv. 17; x. 7, 23, 24, 25, 26.
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, i. 6, 9, 10, 11; iv. 29, 35.
Pythionice, i. 37.
Pytho, v. 3; x. 6.
Quoits, ii. 16; v. 3; vi. 14.
Return from Ilium, Poem so called, x. 28, 29, 30.
Rhea, viii. 8, 36; ix. 2, 41.
Rhegium, iv. 23, 26; v. 25.
Rhianus, iv. 1, 6, 15, 17.
Rhinoceros, v. 12; ix. 21.
Called also Ethiopian bull.
Rhœcus of Samos, viii. 14; ix. 41; x. 38.
Rose, sacred to Aphrodite, vi. 24.
Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great, i. 6; ix. 7.
Sacadas, ii. 22; iv. 27; vi. 14; ix. 30; x. 7.
Sacrifices, remarkable, vii. 18; viii. 29, 37.
Sails, an invention of Dædalus, ix. 11.
Salamis, i. 35, 36, 40.
Samos, vii. 2, 4, 10.
Sanctuaries, not to be approached by the profane, viii. 5; x. 32,
(Procul o, procul este, profani!)
Sappho, the Lesbian Poetess, i. 25, 29; viii. 18; ix. 27, 29.
Sardinia, x. 17.
Sardis, iii. 9; iv. 24.
Sardonic laughter, x. 17.
Saturnus. See Cronos.
Satyrs, i. 23.
Satyr of Praxiteles, i. 20.
Scamander, v. 25.
Scedasus and his two daughters, ix. 13.
Scimetar of Cambyses, i. 28.
Scipio, viii. 30.
Sciron, killed by Theseus, i. 3, 44.
Scopas, i. 43; ii. 10, 22; vi. 25; viii. 28, 45, 47; ix. 10, 17.
Scorpion with wings, ix. 21.
Scylla, daughter of Nisus, legend about, ii. 34.
Scyllis of Scione, famous diver, x. 19.
Scythians, travel in waggons, viii. 43.
(Compare Horace, Odes, Book iii. Ode 24. 9-11. “Campestres
melius Scythae, Quorum plaustra vagas rite trahunt domos,
Vivunt.”)
Sea, Red, i. 33.
Dead, v. 7.
Seasons, v. 11, 17; ix. 35.
Seleucia, on the Orontes, i. 16; viii. 33.
Seleucus, son of Antiochus, i. 6, 16.
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