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- Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-03
The author details the structure of Alyattes' iron stand dedicated at Delphi, followed by descriptions of the Omphalos as the center of the earth and the diverse offerings of Elyrus, Carystus, and Lipara with their historical origins.
τῶν δὲ ἀναθημάτων ἃ οἱ βασιλεῖς ἀπέστειλαν οἱ Λυδῶν, οὐδὲν ἔτι ἦν αὐτῶν εἰ μὴ σιδηροῦν μόνον τὸ ὑπόθημα τοῦ Ἀλυάττου κρατῆρος. τοῦτο Γλαύκου μέν ἐστιν ἔργον τοῦ Χίου, σιδήρου κόλλησιν ἀνδρὸς εὑρόντος· ἔλασμα δὲ ἕκαστον τοῦ ὑποθήματος ἐλάσματι ἄλλῳ προσεχὲς οὐ περόναις ἐστὶν ἢ κέντροις, μόνη δὲ ἡ κόλλα συνέχει τε καὶ ἔστιν αὕτη τῷ σιδήρῳ δεσμός.
Of the offerings which the kings of the Lydians sent, nothing was left any longer except only the iron stand of the crater of Alyattes. This is the work of Glaucus of Chios, the man who invented the welding of iron. Each plate of the stand is joined to another plate not by pins or rivets, but the weld alone holds them together and is itself the binding for the iron.
σχῆμα δὲ τοῦ ὑποθήματος κατὰ πύργον μάλιστα ἐς μύουρον ἀνιόντα ἀπὸ εὐρυτέρου τοῦ κάτω· ἑκάστη δὲ πλευρὰ τοῦ ὑποθήματος οὐ διὰ πάσης πέφρακται, ἀλλά εἰσιν αἱ πλάγιαι τοῦ σιδήρου ζῶναι ὥσπερ ἐν κλίμακι οἱ ἀναβασμοί· τὰ δὲ ἐλάσματα τοῦ σιδήρου τὰ ὀρθὰ ἀνέστραπται κατὰ τὰ ἄκρα ἐς τὸ ἐκτός, καὶ ἕδρα τοῦτο ἦν τῷ κρατῆρι.
The shape of the stand is very like a tower rising to a narrow top from a wider base below. Each side of the stand is not blocked up all through, but there are transverse bands of iron like the rungs on a ladder. The upright plates of the iron are turned outwards at their extremities, and this was the seat for the crater.
τὸν δὲ ὑπὸ Δελφῶν καλούμενον Ὀμφαλὸν λίθου πεποιημένον λευκοῦ, τοῦτο εἶναι1 τὸ ἐν μέσῳ γῆς πάσης αὐτοί τε λέγουσιν οἱ Δελφοὶ καὶ ἐν ᾠδῇ τινι Πίνδαρος ὁμολογοῦντά σφισιν ἐποίησεν.
What is called by the Delphians the Omphalos, made of white stone, this the Delphians themselves say is in the center of the whole earth, and Pindar in one of his odes made a statement agreeing with them.
Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ ἀνάθημά ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα, Καλάμιδος δὲ ἔργον, Ἑρμιόνη ἡ Μενελάου θυγάτηρ, ἡ συνοικήσασα Ὀρέστῃ τῷ Ἀγαμέμνονος καὶ ἔτι πρότερον Νεοπτολέμῳ τῷ Ἀχιλλέως. Εὐρύδαμον δὲ στρατηγόν τε Αἰτωλῶν καὶ στρατοῦ τοῦ Γαλατῶν ἐναντία ἡγησάμενον ἀνέθεσαν οἱ Αἰτωλοί.
There is here an offering of the Lacedaemonians, the work of Calamis, a statue of Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus, who lived with Orestes, son of Agamemnon, and even earlier with Neoptolemus, son of Achilles. The Aetolians dedicated Eurydamus, who was a general of the Aetolians and led them against the army of the Galatians.
ἔστι δὲ ἐν τοῖς Κρητικοῖς ὄρεσι καὶ κατʼ ἐμὲ ἔτι Ἔλυρος πόλις· οὗτοι οὖν αἶγα χαλκῆν ἀπέστειλαν ἐς Δελφούς, δίδωσι δὲ νηπίοις ἡ αἲξ Φυλακίδῃ καὶ Φιλάνδρῳ γάλα· παῖδας δὲ αὐτοὺς οἱ Ἐλύριοί φασιν Ἀπόλλωνός τε εἶναι καὶ Ἀκακαλλίδος νύμφης, συγγενέσθαι δὲ τῇ Ἀκακαλλίδι Ἀπόλλωνα ἐν πόλει Τάρρᾳ καὶ οἴκῳ Καρμάνορος.
There is in the Cretan mountains even in my time still a city Elyrus; these people sent a bronze goat to Delphi, and the goat is giving milk to the infants Phylacides and Philander. The Elyrians say that these children were of Apollo and the nymph Acacallis, and that Apollo united with Acacallis in the city of Tarra and in the house of Carmanor.
Καρύστιοι δὲ οἱ Εὐβοεῖς βοῦν καὶ οὗτοι χαλκοῦν παρὰ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι ἔστησαν ἀπὸ ἔργου τοῦ Μηδικοῦ· βοῦς δὲ οἱ Καρύστιοι καὶ οἱ Πλαταιεῖς τὰ ἀναθήματα ἐποιήσαντο, ὅτι ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν2 ἀπωσάμενοι τὸν βάρβαρον τήν τε ἄλλην βεβαίως ἐκτήσαντο εὐδαιμονίαν καὶ ἀροῦν ἐλευθέραν τὴν γῆν. στρατηγῶν δὲ εἰκόνας καὶ Ἀπόλλωνά τε καὶ Ἄρτεμιν τὸ ἔθνος τὸ Αἰτωλικὸν ἀπέστειλαν καταστρεψάμενοι τοὺς ὁμόρους σφίσιν Ἀκαρνᾶνας.
The Carystians of Euboea also set up a bronze bull next to Apollo from the spoils of the Persian war. The Carystians and the Plataeans made bulls their offerings because, as it seems to me, having repulsed the barbarian, they secured their general prosperity and were able to till a free land. The Aetolian nation, having subdued the Acarnanians, their neighbors, sent statues of their generals and of Apollo and Artemis.
παραλογώτατον δὲ ἐπυνθανόμην ὑπάρξαν3 Λιπαραίοις ἐς Τυρσηνούς. τοὺς γὰρ δὴ Λιπαραίους ἐναντία ναυμαχῆσαι τῶν Τυρσηνῶν ναυσὶν ὡς ἐλαχίσταις ἐκέλευσεν ἡ Πυθία. πέντε οὖν ἀνάγονται τριήρεσιν ἐπὶ τοὺς Τυρσηνούς· οἱ δὲ—ἀπηξίουν γὰρ μὴ ἀποδεῖν Λιπαραίων τὰ ναυτικά—ἀντανάγονταί σφισιν ἴσαις ναυσί. ταύτας τε οὖν αἱροῦσιν οἱ Λιπαραῖοι καὶ ἄλλας πέντε ὑστέρας σφίσιν ἀνταναχθείσας, καὶ τρίτην νεῶν πεντάδα καὶ ὡσαύτως τετάρτην ἐχειρώσαντο. ἀνέθεσαν οὖν ἐς Δελφοὺς ταῖς ἁλούσαις ναυσὶν ἀριθμὸν ἴσα Ἀπόλλωνος ἀγάλματα.
I learned that a most unexpected thing befell the Liparaeans in their conflict with the Tyrrhenians. The Pythian priestess bade the Liparaeans fight a sea-battle against the Tyrrhenians with as few ships as possible. So they put to sea with five triremes against the Tyrrhenians; and the Tyrrhenians, disdaining to show a naval force inferior to that of the Liparaeans, sailed out to meet them with an equal number of ships. These the Liparaeans captured, and also another five which subsequently put out against them, and they subdued a third squadron of five ships and likewise a fourth. They dedicated, therefore, to Delphi as many statues of Apollo as the number of the captured ships.
Ἐχεκρατίδης δὲ ἀνὴρ Λαρισαῖος τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα ἀνέθηκε τὸν μικρόν· καὶ ἁπάντων πρῶτον τεθῆναι τῶν ἀναθημάτων τοῦτό φασιν οἱ Δελφοί.
Echecratides, a man of Larissa, dedicated the small Apollo; and the Delphians say that this was set up first of all the offerings.
- 10.16.3τὸν δὲ ὑπὸ Δελφῶν καλούμενον Ὀμφαλὸν... τοῦτο εἶναι
The accusative phrase τὸν ... Ὀμφαλὸν at the beginning of the sentence is the logical subject of the infinitive εἶναι in the accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) construction introduced by the main verb λέγουσιν. However, the placement of the demonstrative pronoun τοῦτο (accusative) immediately before the infinitive creates a proleptic structure.
- 10.16.6ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν
The infinitive δοκεῖν is used as an absolute infinitive (infinitive absolute) with the dative ἐμοί, serving as a parenthetical expression meaning 'in my opinion' or 'as it seems to me.'
- 10.16.7παραλογώτατον δὲ ἐπυνθανόμην ὑπάρξαν
The verb ἐπυνθανόμην (I learned) takes a participle as a supplementary participle (ὑπάρξαν) to express a reported fact, instead of a ὅτι clause. The neuter singular participle ὑπάρξαν, together with its subject παραλογώτατον, functions as the object of the main verb: 'I learned that a most unexpected thing had occurred.'