Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.

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Orestes, son of Agamemnon, i. 28; ii. 18, 31; iii. 1, 16, 22; vii. 25; viii. 5, 34.

Orithyia, i. 19; v. 19.

Orontes, a river in Syria, vi. 2; viii. 20, 29, 33; x. 20.

Orpheus, i. 14, 37; ii. 30; iii. 13, 14, 20; v. 26; vi. 20; ix. 17, 27, 30.

Osiris, x. 32.

Osogo, viii. 10.

Ostrich, ix. 31.

Otilius, vii. 7; x. 36.

Otus and Ephialtes, ix. 29.

Ox-killer, i. 24, 28.

Oxen given in barter, iii. 12.

Oxyartes, father of Roxana, i. 6.

Oxylus, curious tale about, v. 3.

Ozolian, x. 38.

Palæmon, i. 44; ii. 2; viii. 48.

Palamedes, ii. 20; x. 31.

Palladium, i. 28; ii. 23.

Pamphus, i. 38, 39; vii. 21; viii. 35, 37; ix. 27, 29, 31, 35.

Pan, i. 28; viii. 26, 31, 36, 38, 54.

Panic fear, x. 23.

Parian stone, i. 14, 33, 43; v. 11, 12; viii. 25.

Paris, iii. 22; v. 19; x. 31.

Parnassus, Mount, x. 4, 5, 6, 8, 32, 33.

Parrots come from India, ii. 28. (Did Pausanias remember Ovid’s “Psittacus Eois imitatrix ales ab Indis.” Amor. ii. 6. 1.)

Parthenon at Athens, i. 24; viii. 41.

Patroclus, the friend of Achilles, iii. 24; iv. 28; x. 13, 26, 30.

Patroclus, Egyptian Admiral, i. 1; iii. 6.

Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, i. 13; iii. 17; viii. 52.

Pausanias, a Macedonian, murderer of Harpalus, ii. 33.

Peacock sacred to Hera, ii. 17.

Peace with Wealth, i. 8; ix. 16.

Pegasus, ii. 4, 31; ix. 31.

Pelagos, viii. 11. See Oracles, ambiguous.

Peleus, father of Achilles, i. 37; ii. 29; iii. 18; v. 18; viii. 45; x. 30.

Pelias, iv. 2; v. 8, 17; viii. 11; x. 30.

Pelion, Mount, x. 19.

Peloponnesian War, iii. 7; iv. 6; viii. 41, 52.

Pelops, ii. 18, 22, 26; v. 1, 8, 10, 13, 17; vi. 20, 21, 24; viii. 14; ix. 40.

Pencala, river in Phrygia, viii. 4; x. 32.

Penelope, wife of Odysseus, iii. 12, 13, 20; viii. 12.

Pentelicus, a mountain in Attica, famous for its stone quarries, i. 19, 32.

Penthesilea, v. 11; x. 31.

Pentheus, i. 20; ii. 2; ix. 2, 5.

Periander, son of Cypselus, one of the Seven Wise Men, i. 23; x. 24.

Pericles, i. 25, 28, 29; viii. 41.

Perjury punished, ii. 2, 18; iv. 22; v. 24.

Pero, the matchless daughter of Neleus, x. 31.

Perseus, son of Danae, and grandson of Acrisius, i. 22; ii. 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 27; iii. 17; iv. 35; v. 18.

Persians, i. 18, 32, 33; iii. 9; ix. 32. Their shields called _Gerrha_, viii. 50; x. 19.

Petroma, viii. 15.

Phæacians, iii. 18; viii. 29.

Phædra, the wife of Theseus, enamoured of her stepson Hippolytus, i. 22; ii. 32; ix. 16; x. 29.

Phaennis, a prophetess, x. 15, 20.

Phaethon, i. 3.

Phalanthus, x. 10, 13.

Phalerum, i. 1, 28.

Phemonoe, first priestess of Apollo at Delphi, x. 5, 6, 12.

Phidias, famous Athenian statuary, i. 3, 4, 24, 28, 33, 40; v. 10, 11; vi. 4, 25, 26; vii. 27; ix. 4, 10; x. 10. His descendants, v. 14.

Philammon, father of Thamyris, iv. 33; x. 7.

Philip, oracle about the two Philips, vii. 8.

Philip, the son of Amyntas, i. 6, 25; ii. 20; iii. 7, 24; iv. 28; v. 4; vii. 7, 10, 11; viii. 7, 27; ix. 1, 37; x. 2, 3, 36.

Philip, the son of Demetrius, i. 36; ii. 9; vi. 16; vii. 7, 8; viii. 8, 50; x. 33, 34.

Philoctetes, v. 13; viii. 8, 33; x. 27.

Philomela, i. 5, 14, 41; x. 4.

Philomelus, x. 2, 8, 33.

Philopœmen, son of Craugis, iv. 29; vii. 9; viii. 27, 49, 51, 52.

Phocian Resolution, x. 1.

Phocian War, iv. 28; ix. 6; x. 3.

Phœbe, see Hilaira.

Phœnix, x. 26.

Phormio, son of Asopichus, i. 23, 29; x. 11.

Phormio, the fisherman of Erythræ, vii. 5.

Phormio inhospitable to Castor and Pollux, iii. 16.

Phoroneus, ii. 15, 19, 20, 21.

Phrixus, son of Athainas, i. 24; ix. 34, 38.

Phrontis, the pilot of Menelaus, x. 25.

Phryne, beloved by Praxiteles, i. 20; ix. 27; x. 15.

Phrynichus, play of, x. 31.

Phytalus, i. 37.

Pillars, viii. 45.

Pindar, i. 8; ix. 22, 23, 25; x. 24. Quoted or alluded to, i. 2, 41; iii. 25; iv. 2, 30; v. 14, 22; vi. 2; vii. 2, 26; ix. 22; x. 5, 16, 22.

Piræus, i. 1.

Pirithous, son of Zeus, and friend of Theseus, i. 17, 30; v. 10; viii. 45; x. 29.

Pisander of Camirus, ii. 37; viii. 22.

Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, i. 3, 23; ix. 6. Collects Homer’s Poems, vii. 26.

Pittacus of Mitylene, one of the Seven Wise Men, x. 24.

Plane-trees, wonderful, vii. 22, with Note.

Platanistas at Sparta, iii. 11, 14.

Platæa, battle at, v. 23; vi. 3; ix. 2; x. 15.

Plato, the famous, i. 30; iv. 32. Quoted, vii. 17. Cited, x. 24.

Pluto, i. 38; ii. 36; ix. 23.

Poets, at kings’ courts, i. 3. Statues of, ix. 30.

Pollux, see Dioscuri.

Polybius, viii. 9, 30, 37, 44, 48.

Polycletus, Argive statuary, ii. 17, 20, 22, 24, 27; vi. 2, 4, 7, 9, 13; viii. 31.

Polycrates, i. 2; viii. 14.

Polydamas, vi. 5.

Polydectes, i. 22.

Polygnotus, famous Thasian painter, i. 18, 22; ix. 4; x. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.

Polynices, son of Œdipus, ii. 19, 20, 25; iv. 8; ix. 5; x. 10.

Polyxena, i. 22; x. 25.

Pomegranate, ii. 17; vi. 14; viii. 37; ix. 25.

Poplar, ii. 10; v. 13, 14.

Poseidon, (the Latin _Neptune_,) i. 24, 27, 30; ii. 1, 4, 22, 30; iv. 42; vi. 25; viii. 10, 25, 42.

Praxias, x. 19.

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.

Semele, daughter of Cadmus, mother of Dionysus by Zeus, ii. 31, 37; iii. 24; ix. 5.

Serapis, i. 18; ii. 4, 34; iii. 14, 22, 25; iv. 32; vii. 21; ix. 24.

Ser, and the Seres, vi. 26.

Seriphus, i. 22.

Serpents, remarkable ones, viii. 4, 16. None in Sardinia, x. 17.

Sheep, accompanying Spartan kings to war, ix. 13.

Shields, Used by the Celts in fording rivers, x. 20.

Ship at Delos, i. 29.

Sibyl, ii. 7; vii. 8; x. 9.

Sibyls, various, x. 12.

Sicily, a small hill near Athens, viii. 11.

Sight suddenly lost and recovered, iv. 10, 12; x. 38.

Silenus, i. 4, 23; ii. 22; iii. 25. Sileni mortal, vi. 24.

Simonides, i. 2; iii. 8; vi. 9; ix. 2; x. 27.

Sinis, i. 37; ii. 1. (Pityocamptes.)

Sirens, ix. 34; x. 6.

Sisters, love of by brothers, i. 7; iv. 2; ix. 31.

Sisyphus, son of Æolus, ii. 1, 3, 5; x. 31.

Sleep the god most friendly to the Muses, ii. 31.

Smyrna, v. 8; vii. 5.

Snake, story about, x. 33.

Socrates, i. 22, 30; ix. 35.

Solon, i. 16, 18; x. 24.

Sophocles, i. 21, 28.

Sosigenes, viii. 31.

Sosipolis, vi. 20, 25.

Sparta, iii. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

Sparti, viii. 11; ix. 5. Note. ix. 10.

Speech, ill-advised, iii. 7, 8.

Sperchius, river, x. 20, 21, 22, 23.

Sphacteria, i. 13, 15; iii. 5; iv. 36; v. 26; vi. 22.

Sphinx, the, ix. 26.

Spiders, ix. 6.

Stade. See Note, i. 1.

Stesichorus, iii. 19.

Stratagems of Homer, iv. 28.

Strongyle, a volcanic island, x. 11.

Stymphelides, birds so called, viii. 22.

Styx, river, viii. 17, 18.

Submission to an enemy, technical term for, Note on x. 20. See also iii. 12.

Sulla, i. 20; ix. 7, 33; x. 20.

Sun-shade used by ladies, vii. 22.

Sunium, i. 1, 28.

Suppliants not to be injured with impunity, vii. 24, 25. See also iii. 4; iv. 24.

Sus, river, ix. 30.

Susa, i. 42; iii. 9, 16; iv. 31; vi. 5.

Swallows, idiosyncrasy of at Daulis, x. 4.

Swan-eagles, viii. 17.

Tænarum, promontory of, iii. 14, 25; iv. 24.

Tantalus, ii. 22; v. 13; x. 30, 31.

Taraxippus, vi. 20.

Tarentum, iii. 12; x. 10, 13.

Tarsus, viii. 28.

Telamon, son of Æacus, i. 35, 42; ii. 29; viii. 45.

Telesilla, ii. 20, 28, 35.

Tellias of Elis, x. 1, 13.

Tenedos, x. 14. Tenedian axe, x. 14.

Tereus, i. 5, 41; ix. 16; x. 4.

Teucer, son of Telamon, i. 28; viii. 15.

Thamyris, iv. 33; ix. 5, 30; x. 7, 30.

Thebes, ii. 6; iv. 27; vii. 15, 17; viii. 33; ix. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Themis, v. 17; viii. 25; x. 5.

Themisto, reputed by some mother of Homer, x. 24.

Themistocles, i. 1, 36; viii. 50, 52; x. 14.

Theoclus, Messenian seer, iv. 16, 20, 21.

Theodorus of Samos, iii. 12; viii. 14; ix. 41; x. 38. His seal carved out of an emerald for Polycrates, viii. 14.

Thermopylæ, vii. 15; ix. 32; x. 20, 21.

Thersites, x. 31.

Theseus, i. 1, 2, 3, 17, 19, 22, 27, 37, 39, 41, 44; ii. 1, 22, 30, 32; iii. 18, 24; v. 10, 11; vii. 17; viii. 45, 48; ix. 31, 40; x. 29.

Thetis, mother of Achilles, v. 18, 22.

Thucydides, the famous Historian, i. 23; vi. 19. Possibly alluded to, i. 8.

Thyestes, ii. 18.

Thyiades, x. 4, 19, 32.

Thyrsus of Dionysus, iv. 36; viii. 31.

Tiger, ix. 21.

Timagoras, tragic story of, i. 30.

Timon of Athens, the famous Misanthrope, i. 30.

Timotheus, the Milesian harper and poet, iii. 12; viii. 50.

Tiphys, the pilot of the Argo, ix. 32.

Tiresias, vii. 3; ix. 18, 32, 33.

Tiryns, ii. 16, 17, 25; v. 23; vii. 25; viii. 2, 33, 46; ix. 36.

Tisias, vi. 17.

Tissaphernes, iii. 9.

Titans, the, vii. 18; viii. 37.

Tityus, iii. 18; x. 4, 11, 29.

Tomb of Helen, a Jewess, at Jerusalem, viii. 16.

Tortoises, i. 44; viii. 23. Lyres made out of them, ii. 19; viii. 17, 54.

Townships of Attica, i. 31, 32, 33.

Traitors, various ones that troubled Greece, vii. 10.

Trajan, the Emperor, iv. 35; v. 12.

Treasuries, ix. 36, 37, 38; x. 11.

Trench, the Great, iv. 6, 17, 20, 22.

Tripods, v. 17; vii. 4.

Triptolemus, i. 14, 38; ii. 14; vii. 18; viii. 4.

Tritons, viii. 2; ix. 20, 21.

Trœzen, ii. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34.

Trophies, unwisdom of erecting, ix. 40.

Trophonius, iv. 16, 32; viii. 10; ix. 11, 37, 39, 40; x. 5.

Tros, father of Ganymede, v. 24.

Troy, why it fell, x. 33. (Compare Horace, Odes, iii. 3. 18-21. “Ilion, Ilion Fatalis incestusque judex Et mulier peregrina vertit In pulverem.”)

Tyndareus, ii. 18; iii. 1, 15, 17, 18, 21.

Tyrants, the Thirty, i. 29.

Tyrtæus, iv. 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16.

Ulysses. See Odysseus.

Umpires at Olympia, v. 9.

Unknown gods, i. 1; v. 14. (Compare Acts: xvii. 23.)

Venus. See Aphrodite.

Vermilion, viii. 39.

Vespasian, the Roman Emperor, vii. 17.

Vesta, i. 18; ii. 35; v. 14.

Vinegar, its effect on Pearls, viii. 18.

Voice, found through terror, x. 15.

Volcanic islands, x. 11.

Vulcan. See Hephæstus.

Water, various kinds of, iv. 35.

To whitewash two walls, Proverb, vi. 3. See Note.

Wine elevating, iii. 19. (“Vinum lætificat cor hominis.” Ps. ciii. 15.)

Wise Men, the Seven, i. 23; x. 24. Their famous sayings, especially _Know thyself_, and _Not too much of anything_, x. 24.

Wolves, men turned into, vi. 8; viii. 2. Many in the neighbourhood of Croton, vi. 14. None in Sardinia, x. 17.

Word for the day given to soldiers, ix. 27.

Wordsworth on Daphne. See Note, x. 7.

World, centre of, x. 16.

Worshipping the deity with other people’s incense, Proverb, ix. 30.

Xanthippus, father of Pericles, i. 25; iii. 7; viii. 52.

Xenocrates, iv. 32; ix. 13.

Xenophon, i. 3; v. 6; ix. 15.

Xerxes, i. 8; iii. 4; vi. 5; viii. 42, 46; x. 7, 35.

Young, Dr., On Commentators, Preface, p. vi.

Zancle, iv. 23.

Zethus, ii. 6; ix. 5, 8, 17.

Zeus, (the Latin _Jupiter_,) the chief of the gods, viii. 36. Assumed the appearance of Amphitryon, v. 18. Traditions about his early years, iv. 33; v. 7; viii. 8, 28, 36, 38. His two jars, viii. 24. Represented with three eyes, why, ii. 24.

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