PAUSANIAS, a learned Greek historian and orator,
in the second century, under the reign of Antoninus the Philosopher, was the disciple of Herodes Atticus. He lived for a long time in Greece; and afterwards went to Rome, where he died at a great age. He wrote an excellent description of Greece, in ten books; in which we find not only the situation of places, but the antiquities of Greece, and every thing most curious and worthy of knowledge. Abbe Gedoin has given a French translation of it in 2 vols 4to.