Emperamus

Family: Spartan · Role: master and commander · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 20

Life events

• The herdsman defects from the Messenians to Emperamus and the Lacedæmonians.(Book 4 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Eira)
  • With: the herdsman
  • “And the herdsman overheard, and immediately, when he understood the condition of affairs, deserted the Messenians for the Lacedæmonians.”
• The herdsman reveals to Emperamus how the Lacedæmonians can capture Eira.(Book 4 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Eira)
  • With: the herdsman
  • “The herdsman then went to his master, and first begged pardon for his absence from home, and next showed him how they could capture Eira”
• Emperamus led the Spartan force over Eira’s walls, beginning the final assault on Messene.(Book 4 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Eira)
  • “as soon as they got to the citadel of Eira, fixed scaling ladders and got over the walls with all dispatch.”
• Emperamus and the Spartans allowed the withdrawing Messenians to pass through their lines.(Book 4 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Eira)
  • “Emperamus and the Spartans on the spot were right glad to let the Messenians through their lines”

Book 4 · Chapter 20

• servant: Herdsman (The herdsman is unnamed and therefore not included as an entity.) “but a herdsman, a slave of Emperamus who was a man of some note at Sparta.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.