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- Greek geographer and historian who wrote Description of Greece, a valuable source on the topography and history of ancient Greece.
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And when Pausanias came to him and told him he did these things by the common vote and termination of the Greeks, Amompharetus taking up a great stone and flinging it at Pausanias feet, and by this token, said he, do I give my suffrage for the battle, nor have I any concern with the cowardly consultations and decrees of other men.
Aristides Plutarch 1909
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Because the Persians cut off and impaled the head of Leonidas at Thermopylae, Pausanias is urged by a fellow Spartan to do likewise to the body of Mardonius, the Persian general.
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Because the Persians cut off and impaled the head of Leonidas at Thermopylae, Pausanias is urged by a fellow Spartan to do likewise to the body of Mardonius, the Persian general.
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* Chrysoun is the word Pausanias uses, of the cup in the hand of
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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In the meantime the Lacedaemonians recalled Pausanias for an investigation of the reports which had reached them.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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In the meantime the Lacedaemonians recalled Pausanias for an investigation of the reports which had reached them.
The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866
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With these terms Pausanias was forced to comply; and after duly interring the bodies of Lysander and his fallen comrades, the Lacedaemonians dejectedly pursued their homeward march.
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853
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Let them recall Pausanias, they cannot recall his glory.
Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Recall Pausanias first," said Periclides, "and we shall then hear the truth, and decide what is best to be done."
Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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He wrote one play, published by Mr. South - ern, called Pausanias, the Betrayer «/his Country.
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782
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