The tripod at Delphi
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the tripod at Delphi · the tripod
in the texts
The Histories
Victory monument at Delphi on which the names of those who fought against the Persians, including the Tenians, are inscribed.
For this deed the Tenians were engraved on the tripod at Delphi with those who had conquered the barbarian.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A bronze tripod dedicated at Delphi as first-fruits of the spoils from the Persian Wars, briefly bearing Pausanias's own inscription.
The Greek Pausanias, victor o'er the Mede, To Phoebus this memorial decreed.
This distich then the Lacedaemonians at the very time erased from the tripod, and engraved by name all the cities that had joined in overthrowing the barbarian, and had dedicated the offering.
and especially, that on the tripod at Delphi, which the Greeks dedicated as the first-fruits of the spoil of the Medes, he had formerly on his own individual responsibility presumed to have the following distich inscribed: