Cleonice

Family: Byzantium · Role: maiden · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 17

At the Hellespont, while in command of the allied fleet, Pausanias became enamoured of Cleonice, a maiden from Byzantium. At nightfall, his men brought her to him; when she accidentally knocked over the room’s light and woke him, Pausanias stabbed her with a scimitar.

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• Pausanias stabbed Cleonice after she accidentally extinguished the room’s light.(Book 3 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Hellespont)
  • With: Pausanias (Plataea)
  • “For when he was at the Hellespont in command of the allied fleet, he got enamoured of a Byzantian maiden called Cleonice, and at nightfall a detachment of his men brought her to him. And Pausanias had fallen asleep, and when this maiden came into the room she knocked down inadvertently the light that was burning, and the noise woke him. And Pausanias, whose conscience smote him for having betrayed Greece, and who was therefore always in a state of nervous alarm and panic, was beside himself and stabbed the maiden with a scimetar.”

Book 3 · Chapter 17

• admirer->admired with Pausanias (Pausanias became enamoured of Cleonice.) “For when he was at the Hellespont in command of the allied fleet, he got enamoured of a Byzantian maiden called Cleonice”
• with Pausanias (Pausanias stabbed Cleonice.) “And Pausanias, whose conscience smote him for having betrayed Greece, and who was therefore always in a state of nervous alarm and panic, was beside himself and stabbed the maiden with a scimetar.”
• admirer: Pausanias (Pausanias became enamoured of Cleonice.) “For when he was at the Hellespont in command of the allied fleet, he got enamoured of a Byzantian maiden called Cleonice,”

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