Pausanias

[ paw-sey-nee-uhs ]

noun

1. flourished a.d. c175, Greek traveler, geographer, and author.

Pausanias

/ pɔːˈseɪnɪəs /

noun

1. Pausanias2nd century ad2nd century adMGreekGEOGRAPHY: geographerHISTORY: historian 2nd century ad , Greek geographer and historian. His Description of Greece gives a valuable account of the topography of ancient Greece

Example Sentences

Two years after the battle of Chronea Philip is stricken down by the assassin Pausanias.

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Even in the second century, when Pausanias visited Arcadia, he found what seem to have been human sacrifices to Zeus.

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But the oldest gods of all, says Pausanias repeatedly, were rude stones in the temple or the temple precinct.

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Possibly it might create a greater sensation if it were introduced to the world as Julia and Pausanias: an Idyll.

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Go and amuse yourself with Horace, study Pausanias, and be gay over Anacreon.

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