Explore Pausanias through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pausanias meaning
A male given name.
Using Pausanias
- The main meaning on this page is: A male given name.
- In the example corpus, pausanias often appears in combinations such as: pausanias pausanias, pausanias also, traveller pausanias.
Context around Pausanias
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pausanias
- In this selection, "pausanias" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, elder, guess, general, recorded, passed and periegesis stand out and add context to how "pausanias" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 105 while pausanias argues for and 27 9 pausanias passed the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pausanias" sits close to words such as aapl, abattoir and adjei, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pausanias
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Antoninus' financial help earned him praise by Greek writers such as Aelius Aristides and Pausanias. (15 words)
Aristid. p. 105 while Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia. (15 words)
The Ephors concealed themselves in a tent at the shrine, and the messenger waited for Pausanias. (16 words)
Pausanias, Periegesis vi.25.1; Aphrodite Pandemos was represented in the same temple riding on a goat, symbol of purely carnal rut: "The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess," Pausanias remarks. (42 words)
Pausanias, 7. 27, 9. Pausanias passed the shrine to Demeter at Mysia on the road from Mycenae to Argos but all he could draw out to explain the archaic name was a myth of an eponymous Mysius who venerated Demeter. (40 words)
About six sources have been suggested as the origins of the story, as follows: Greek traveller Pausanias (c. 100 AD) wrote a work that was translated into French in 1797 as Voyage autour du monde ("Around the World"). (38 words)
Chaussard (Le Pausanias Français, 1806) condemned Ingres's style as gothic and asked: How, with so much talent, a line so flawless, an attention to detail so thorough, has M. Ingres succeeded in painting a bad picture? (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Pausanias 3.14.5 * Anesidora ("sending up gifts from the earth") applied to Demeter in Pausanias 1.31.4, also appears inscribed on an Attic ceramic a name for Pandora on her jar.
Pausanias, 7. 27, 9. Pausanias passed the shrine to Demeter at Mysia on the road from Mycenae to Argos but all he could draw out to explain the archaic name was a myth of an eponymous Mysius who venerated Demeter.
Pausanias 8.38.7 Pausanias also discusses the temenos of Zeus, a sacred precinct which humans were forbidden to enter.
Pausanias I, 15 Pausanias also tells us that: They say too that there chanced to be present in the battle a man of rustic appearance and dress.
Pausanias, Periegesis vi.25.1; Aphrodite Pandemos was represented in the same temple riding on a goat, symbol of purely carnal rut: "The meaning of the tortoise and of the he-goat I leave to those who care to guess," Pausanias remarks.
The elder Pausanias' taunting of the new lover caused the youth to throw away his life, which turned his friend Attalus against the elder Pausanias.
The Ephors concealed themselves in a tent at the shrine, and the messenger waited for Pausanias.
The Spartan General Pausanias, in order to to reach a water supply under the cover of darkness, moved the Greek center back to the base of the Cithaeron hill just in front of Plataea.
About six sources have been suggested as the origins of the story, as follows: Greek traveller Pausanias (c. 100 AD) wrote a work that was translated into French in 1797 as Voyage autour du monde ("Around the World").
According to Pausanias, Pelarge, the daughter of Potnieus, was connected with the cult of Demeter in the Cabeirian ( potniai ).
A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself (Guide to Greece, 9.31.7).
Aeschylus, Suppliants frg. 202, as cited by Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, p. 142. Pausanias recorded a few other religious sites in Greece devoted to Prometheus.
Although Pausanias alludes to secret sacrifices which took place on this altar, he explains that he was reluctant to inquire into these rites due to their extreme antiquity.
Antoninus' financial help earned him praise by Greek writers such as Aelius Aristides and Pausanias.
Aristid. p. 105 while Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia.
Attalus took his revenge by inviting Pausanias to dinner, getting him drunk, then subjecting him to sexual assault.
Chaussard (Le Pausanias Français, 1806) condemned Ingres's style as gothic and asked: How, with so much talent, a line so flawless, an attention to detail so thorough, has M. Ingres succeeded in painting a bad picture?
For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus (they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias).
Further repairs and transformations took place in the 2nd century A.D. Pausanias mentions that these were carried out under the auspices of Herod Atticus.
Horace, Odes 1.17.1-2 Zeus Lykaios Pausanias records the presence of a mound of earth on the highest point of the mountain, an altar to Zeus Lykaios.
Common combinations with pausanias
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: