§14.17.1τοῦ δʼ ἐνιαυσίου χρόνου διεληλυθότος Ἀθήνησι μὲν ἦρχε Μικίων, ἐν δὲ τῇ Ῥώμῃ τὴν ὑπατικὴν ἀρχὴν μετέλαβον χιλίαρχοι τρεῖς, Τίτος Κοΐντιος καὶ Γάιος Ἰούλιος καὶ Αὖλος Μαμίλος.
When the period of a year had elapsed, Micion became archon in Athens, and in Rome three military tribunes with consular power, Titus Quinctius, Gaius Julius, and Aulus Mamilius, succeeded to the consular authority.
τούτων δὲ τὰς ἀρχὰς λαβόντων οἱ τὸν Ὠρωπὸν οἰκοῦντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους στασιάσαντες ἐφυγάδευσαν τῶν πολιτῶν τινας.
When these men had taken office, the inhabitants of Oropus, falling into strife among themselves, banished some of their citizens.
§14.17.2οἱ δὲ φυγάδες μέχρι μέν τινος διʼ ἑαυτῶν ἐπεβάλοντο κατελθεῖν, οὐ δυνάμενοι δὲ τὴν προαίρεσιν ἐπὶ τέλος ἀγαγεῖν, ἔπεισαν τοὺς Θηβαίους ἑαυτοῖς συναποστεῖλαι δύναμιν.
The exiles for a time attempted by their own efforts to return, but being unable to bring their enterprise to a successful issue, they persuaded the Thebans to send a force along with them.
§14.17.3Θηβαῖοι δὲ στρατεύσαντες ἐπὶ τοὺς Ὠρωπίους καὶ κυριεύσαντες τῆς πόλεως, μετῴκισαν ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάττης αὐτοὺς ὡς ἑπτὰ σταδίους, καὶ χρόνους μέν τινας εἴασαν καθʼ αὑτοὺς πολιτεύεσθαι, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα δόντες πολιτείαν τὴν χώραν Βοιωτίαν ἐποιήσαντο.
The Thebans, having marched against the Oropians and made themselves masters of the city, relocated them about seven stades inland from the sea, and for a time allowed them to govern themselves under their own constitution, but after this, having granted them citizenship, they made the territory Boeotian.
§14.17.4τούτων δὲ πραττομένων Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ ἄλλα μὲν πλείονα τοῖς Ἠλείοις ἐνεκάλουν, μάλιστα δʼ ὅτι Ἆγιν αὐτῶν τὸν βασιλέα διεκώλυσαν τῷ θεῷ θῦσαι καὶ διότι τοῖς Ὀλυμπίοις Λακεδαιμονίους οὐκ εἴασαν ἀγωνίσασθαι.
While these things were going on, the Lacedaemonians brought many other charges against the Eleans, but especially that they had prevented Agis their king from sacrificing to the god, and that they had not allowed Lacedaemonians to compete in the Olympic Games.
§14.17.5διόπερ κρίναντες πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐκφέρειν πόλεμον, δέκα πρεσβευτὰς ἀπέστειλαν, πρῶτον μὲν κελεύοντες τὰς περιοίκους πόλεις ἐᾶν αὐτονόμους εἶναι, ἔπειτα τὰς δαπάνας τοῦ πρὸς Ἀθηναίους πολέμου κατὰ τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὐτοῖς μέρος ἀπῄτουν.
Deciding, therefore, to declare war against them, they dispatched ten ambassadors, first ordering them to leave the neighbouring cities autonomous, and next demanding their share of the expenses of the war against the Athenians.
§14.17.6ταῦτα δʼ ἔπραττον προφάσεις αὑτοῖς εὐλόγους καὶ πιθανὰς ἀρχὰς ζητοῦντες πολέμου.
This they did because they were seeking plausible pretexts and a convincing beginning of war for themselves.
οὐ προσεχόντων δὲ τῶν Ἠλείων, ἀλλὰ καὶ προσεγκαλούντων ὅτι τοὺς Ἕλληνας καταδουλοῦνται, τὸν ἕτερον τῶν βασιλέων Παυσανίαν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἀπέστειλαν μετὰ στρατιωτῶν τετρακισχιλίων.
When the Eleans paid no attention but even brought counter-charges that the Lacedaemonians were enslaving the Greeks, they dispatched Pausanias, one of their two kings, against them with four thousand soldiers.
§14.17.7συνηκολούθουν δʼ αὐτῷ πολλοὶ στρατιῶται καὶ παρὰ τῶν συμμάχων σχεδὸν ἁπάντων πλὴν Βοιωτῶν καὶ Κορινθίων· οὗτοι δὲ δυσχεραίνοντες τοῖς ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων πραττομένοις οὐ μετέσχον τῆς ἐπὶ τὴν Ἦλιν στρατείας.
He was followed also by many soldiers from almost all the allies except the Boeotians and Corinthians; these, being displeased with the actions of the Lacedaemonians, took no part in the expedition against Elis.
§14.17.8ὁ δʼ οὖν Παυσανίας κατʼ ἔφοδον τῆς Ἀρκαδίας ἐμβαλὼν εἰς τὴν Ἦλιν Λασίωνα μὲν φρούριον εὐθὺς εἷλεν ἐξ ἐφόδου, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα διὰ τῆς Ἀκρωρείας ἀγαγὼν τὸ στρατόπεδον τέτταρας πόλεις προσηγάγετο, Θραῖστον, Ἅλιον, Ἐπιτάλιον, Ὀποῦντα.
Pausanias, then, invading Elis by the approach from Arcadia, immediately took the fortress of Lasion on his first assault, and after this, leading his army through Acroreia, he won over four cities, Thraestus, Halius, Epitalium, and Opus.
§14.17.9ἐκεῖθεν δὲ τῇ Πύλῳ προσστρατοπεδεύσας εὐθὺς καὶ τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον παρέλαβεν, ἀπέχον τῆς Ἤλιδος σταδίους ὡς ἑβδομήκοντα.
Marching thence to Pylos, he immediately took this place also, which was about seventy stades distant from Elis.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτʼ ἐπʼ αὐτὴν πορευθεὶς τὴν Ἦλιν ἐπὶ τῶν πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ λόφων κατεστρατοπέδευσεν.
After this, proceeding against Elis itself, he encamped on the hills across the river.
Ἠλεῖοι δὲ μικρὸν ἔμπροσθεν ἦσαν παρʼ Αἰτωλῶν εἰληφότες συμμάχους ἐπιλέκτους ἄνδρας χιλίους, οἷς τὸν περὶ τὸ γυμνάσιον τόπον δεδώκεισαν φυλάττειν.
The Eleans, a short time before, had received from the Aetolians a thousand select allies, to whom they had given the area about the gymnasium to guard.
§14.17.10τοῦ δὲ Παυσανίου τοῦτον τὸν τόπον πρῶτον ἐπιχειρήσαντος πολιορκεῖν καταπεφρονηκότως, ὡς οὐδέποτʼ ἂν τολμησάντων Ἠλείων ἐπεξελθεῖν, ἐξαίφνης οἵ τε Αἰτωλοὶ καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἐκχυθέντες ἐκ τῆς πόλεως κατεπλήξαντο τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους, καὶ σχεδὸν τριάκοντα αὐτῶν κατέβαλον.
But when Pausanias first attempted to besiege this place in a contemptuous manner, thinking that the Eleans would never dare to sally out, suddenly the Aetolians and many of the citizens poured out of the city, struck terror into the Lacedaemonians, and laid low about thirty of them.
§14.17.11ὁ δὲ Παυσανίας τότε μὲν ἔλυσε τὴν πολιορκίαν, μετὰ δὲ ταῦθʼ ὁρῶν ἐργώδη τὴν ἅλωσιν οὖσαν, ἐπῄει πορθῶν καὶ φθείρων τὴν χώραν ἱερὰν οὖσαν, καὶ παμπληθεῖς ὠφελείας ἤθροισεν.
Pausanias then abandoned the siege, and after this, seeing that the capture of the city was difficult, he went about pillaging and destroying the country, although it was sacred, and gathered a vast amount of booty.
§14.17.12ἤδη δὲ τοῦ χειμῶνος συνεγγίζοντος κατὰ μὲν τὴν Ἠλείαν ἐτείχισε φρούρια, καὶ τὴν ἱκανὴν ἐν αὐτοῖς κατέλιπε δύναμιν, αὐτὸς δὲ μετὰ τῆς ὑπολοίπου στρατιᾶς ἐν Δύμῃ παρεχείμασεν.
Since winter was already approaching, he built fortresses in the territory of Elis and left a sufficient force in them, while he himself with the rest of the army wintered in Dyme.