Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messene” in book 4 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
...son of Agis. In addition to this they say that the maidens who were violated killed themselves for shame.
The Messenians say that a plot was formed by Teleclus against persons of the highest rank in Messene who had come to the sanctuary, his incentive being the excellence of the Messenian land; in furtherance of his design he selected some Spartan youths, all without beards, dressed them in girls' cloth...
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† | Messene (Greece) | 452 | 156 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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