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*)epaminw/ndas
Adler number: epsilon,1949
Translated headword: Epaminondas, Epameinondas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: When the Athenians and Mantineans had fought [sc. the Thebans] Epaminondas received a war-wound; and they carried him, wounded but still alive, out of the line. For a while he kept his hand on the wound and was in a bad way as he watched his allies; but once the combat had ended with honors even, he took his hand away from the wound; and when he had died they buried him on the site of the battle. On the grave stands a pillar and there is a shield on it, bearing the carving of a dragon. The dragon is meant to signify that Epaminondas belonged to the race of the Sparti.[1] One must give Epaminondas praise as the Greeks' most famous general, or [at any rate] make him second to none.
Epaminondas received an oracle [advising him] to be on his guard against 'ocean'. And he was [accordingly] afraid to board a boat. However, by 'ocean' the deity meant the grove 'Ocean'[2] and not the sea. Places of the same name [also misled Hannibal... and the Athenians].[3]
Greek Original:*)epaminw/ndas: o(/ti *)aqhnai/wn kai\ *mantine/wn maxesame/nwn *)epaminw/ndas titrw/sketai kata\ to\n po/lemon: kai\ tetrwme/non au)to\n komi/zousin e)k th=s parata/cews e)/ti zw=nta. o( de\ te/ws me\n th\n xei=ra e)/xwn e)pi\ tw=| trau/mati e)talaipw/rei kai\ e)s tou\s summa/xous a)few/ra: labo/ntos de\ i)/son tou= a)gw=nos to\ pe/ras, ou(/tw th\n xei=ra a)pe/sxe tou= trau/matos, kai\ au)to\n a)fe/nta th\n yuxh\n e)/qayan, e)/nqa sfi/si ge/gonen h( sumbolh/. tw=| ta/fw| de\ ki/wn e)fe/sthke kai\ a)spi\s e)p' au)tw=|, dra/konta e)/xousa e)peirgasme/non. h)/qele de\ o( dra/kwn shmai/nein tou= ge/nous tw=n *spartw=n o)/nta to\n *)epaminw/ndan. to\n de\ *)epaminw/ndan strathgi/as e(/neka tw=n par' *(/ellhsin eu)dokimhsa/ntwn ma/lista e)paine/sai tis a)/n, h)\ ou)deno\s poih/saito u(/steron. o(/ti e)gego/nei tw=| *)epaminw/nda| xrhsmo\s pe/lagos au)to\n fula/ttesqai. kai\ o( me\n e)pibh=nai ploi/ou dei=ma ei)=xe. tw=| de\ a)/ra pe/lagos drumo\n kai\ ou) qa/lassan prou)/legen o( dai/mwn. xwri/a de\ o(mw/numa.
Notes:
Of
Thebes, died 362 BCE; one of the twin architects (with Pelopidas: see under
pi 705, and cf.
epsilon 3834) of the Theban hegemony of Balkan Greece in this era. See also under
pi 3120 and
phi 409. (The
Plutarch Life of him has not survived, but the one written by Cornelius Nepos may be found at web address 1.) See generally J.F. Lazenby in OCD(4) s.v. The material of the present entry comes from
Pausanias 8.11.5-10.
[1] Descendants of those Thebans sprung from the dragon's teeth planted by Cadmus (see under
gamma 416, and cf.
kappa 15,
kappa 17,
kappa 19), to people his newly founded city. See
phi 790.
[2] On the battlefield at
Mantineia (where he met his death).
Pausanias has mentioned this grove in 8.11.5.
[3] For the Hannibal instance, about being buried in 'Libya', see already under
alpha 2452. For the Athenian instance, about colonising '
Sicily', see also there and again under
sigma 389.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 May 2003@07:24:04.
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