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PAUSANIAS

Volume 16 · 90 words · 1815 Edition

a learned Greek historian and orator, in the second century, under the reign of Antoninus the Philosopher, was the disciple of Herodotus 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.