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- Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-04
Pausanias describes the sanctuary of Artemis near Anticyra and the geography of neighboring Boulis, followed by the history of Cirrha, the harbor of Delphi, and Solon's stratagem of using hellebore to capture it.
τῆς πόλεως δὲ ἐν δεξιᾷ δύο μάλιστα προελθόντι1 ἀπʼ αὐτῆς σταδίους, πέτρα τέ ἐστιν ὑψηλὴ—μοῖρα ὄρους ἡ πέτρα—καὶ ἱερὸν ἐπʼ αὐτῆς πεποιημένον ἐστὶν Ἀρτέμιδος· ἡ Ἄρτεμις ἔργων τῶν Πραξιτέλους, δᾷδα ἔχουσα τῇ δεξιᾷ καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ὤμων φαρέτραν, παρὰ δὲ αὐτὴν κύων ἐν ἀριστερᾷ· μέγεθος δὲ ὑπὲρ τὴν μεγίστην γυναῖκα τὸ ἄγαλμα.
On the right of the city, when you have gone about two stades from it, there is a high rock—this rock is a part of a mountain—and on it is built a sanctuary of Artemis; the Artemis is one of the works of Praxiteles, holding a torch in her right hand and a quiver over her shoulders, and beside her on the left is a dog; the size of the image is greater than the tallest woman.
τῇ δὲ γῇ τῇ Φωκίδι ἐστὶν ὅμορος ἥ ὀνομάζεται μὲν ἀπὸ Βούλωνος ἀγαγόντος τὴν ἀποικίαν ἀνδρός, συνῳκίσθη δὲ ἐκ πόλεων τῶν ἐν τῇ ἀρχαίᾳ Δωρίδι. λέγονται δὲ οἱ Βούλιοι Φιλομήλου καὶ Φωκέων σύλλογον τὸν κοινόν. ἐς δὲ τὴν Βοῦλιν ἐκ μὲν τῆς Βοιωτίας Θίσβης σταδίων ἐστὶν ὁδὸς ὀγδοήκοντα, ἐξ Ἀντικύρας δὲ τῆς Φωκέων διʼ ἠπείρου μὲν καὶ εἰ ἀρχήν ἐστιν2 οὐκ οἶδα· οὕτω δύσβατα ὄρη καὶ τραχέα τὰ μεταξὺ Ἀντικύρας τέ ἐστι καὶ Βούλιδος· ἐς δὲ τὸν λιμένα σταδίων ἐξ Ἀντικύρας ἐστὶν ἑκατόν, τὰ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ λιμένος στάδια ὁδοῦ τῆς πεζῆς τὰ ἐς Βοῦλιν ἑπτὰ εἶναι μάλιστα εἰκάζομεν.
Bordering on the land of Phocis is the city which is named after Boulon, the man who led the colony, and it was settled from the cities in ancient Doris. The Boulians are said to have joined the common assembly of Philomelus and the Phocians. To Boulis from Thisbe in Boeotia is a road of eighty stades; but from Anticyra of the Phocians by land, whether there is any road at all, I do not know; so impassable and rugged are the mountains between Anticyra and Boulis. From Anticyra to the harbor is a hundred stades, and the stades of the journey on foot from the harbor to Boulis we estimate to be about seven.
κάτεισι δὲ καὶ ποταμὸς ἐς θάλασσαν ταύτῃ χείμαρρος, ὃν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι ὀνομάζουσιν Ἡράκλειον. κεῖται δὲ ἐπὶ ὑψηλοῦ τε ἡ Βοῦλις καὶ ἐν παράπλῳ περαιουμένοις ἐξ Ἀντικύρας ἐς Λέχαιον τὸ Κορινθίων· οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ἐνταῦθα πλέον ἡμίσεις κόχλων ἐς βαφὴν πορφύρας εἰσὶν ἁλιεῖς. κατασκευὴ δὲ ἡ ἐν τῇ Βούλιδι οὔτε ἡ ἄλλη θαύματος πολλοῦ καὶ ἱερὰ θεῶν ἐστιν Ἀρτέμιδος, τὸ δὲ αὐτῶν Διονύσου· τὰ δὲ ἀγάλματα ξύλου μέν ἐστιν εἰργασμένα, ὅστις δὲ ἦν ὁ ποιήσας οὐχ οἷοί τε ἐγενόμεθα συμβαλέσθαι. θεῶν δὲ ὅντινα οἱ Βούλιοι σέβουσι μάλιστα, Μέγιστον μὲν ὀνομάζουσι, Διὸς δὲ κατὰ ἡμετέραν δόξαν ἐστὶν ἐπίκλησις. καὶ πηγὴ Βουλίοις ἐστὶ καλουμένη Σαύνιον.
Here there also flows down into the sea a torrent river, which the natives name Heracleion. Boulis lies on high ground, and it is on the coastal voyage for those crossing from Anticyra to Lechaeum of the Corinthians. More than half the people here are fishers of shell-fish for the purple dye. The other architecture in Boulis is not of much wonder, and there are sanctuaries of the gods, one of Artemis, and another of Dionysus. The images are made of wood, but who the maker was we were unable to conjecture. The god whom the Boulians worship most, they call Megistus, which in our opinion is a surname of Zeus. The Boulians also have a spring called Saunion.
ἐς δὲ Κίρραν τὸ ἐπίνειον Δελφῶν ὁδὸς μὲν σταδίων ἑξήκοντά ἐστιν ἐκ Δελφῶν· καταβάντι δὲ ἐς τὸ πεδίον ἱππόδρομός τέ ἐστι καὶ ἀγῶνα Πύθια ἄγουσιν ἐνταῦθα τὸν ἱππικόν. τὰ μὲν δὴ ἐς τὸν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ Ταράξιππον ἐδήλωσέ μοι τὰ ἐς Ἠλείους τοῦ λόγου, ὁ δὲ ἱππόδρομος ἔοικε τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τάχα μέν που καὶ αὐτὸς τῶν ἱππευόντων τινὰ ἀνιᾶσαι,3 ἅτε ἀνθρώποις τοῦ δαίμονος ὁμοίως ἐπὶ ἔργῳ παντὶ καὶ ἀμείνω καὶ τὰ χείρω νέμοντος· οὐ μέντοι καὶ αὐτὸς ταραχὴν τοῖς ἵπποις ὁ ἱππόδρομος οὔτε κατὰ αἰτίαν ἥρωος οὔτε ἐπʼ ἄλλῃ πέφυκεν ἐργάζεσθαι προφάσει.
To Cirrha, the harbor of Delphi, is a road of sixty stades from Delphi. As you go down to the plain there is a racecourse, and there they hold the Pythian equestrian contests. The story of Taraxippus in Olympia has been made clear in the Olympian part of my narrative, but the racecourse of Apollo seems likely itself also to distress some of the riders, since the deity in every activity alike dispenses both better and worse to men; yet the racecourse itself is not of a nature to cause confusion to the horses, neither by reason of a hero nor for any other pretext.
τὸ δὲ πεδίον τὸ ἀπὸ τῆς Κίρρας ψιλόν ἐστιν ἅπαν, καὶ φυτεύειν δένδρα οὐκ ἐθέλουσιν ἢ ἔκ τινος ἀρᾶς ἢ ἀχρεῖον τὴν γῆν ἐς δένδρων τροφὴν εἰδότες. λέγεται δὲ ἐς τὴν Κίρραν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Κίρρας τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν τεθῆναι τῷ χωρίῳ φασίν.4 Ὅμηρος μέντοι Κρῖσαν ἔν τε Ἰλιάδι ὁμοίως καὶ ὕμνῳ τῷ ἐς Ἀπόλλωνα ὀνόματι τῷ ἐξ ἀρχῆς καλεῖ τὴν πόλιν. χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον οἱ ἐν τῇ Κίρρᾳ ἄλλα τε ἠσέβησαν ἐς τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ ἀπέτεμνον τοῦ θεοῦ τῆς χώρας.
The plain from Cirrha is entirely bare, and they do not wish to plant trees, either because of some curse, or because they know the land is useless for the nourishment of trees. It is said that the name at present given to the place was derived from Cirrha. Homer, however, in the Iliad and likewise in the hymn to Apollo, calls the city by its original name, Crisa. At a later time the people of Cirrha committed various acts of sacrilege against Apollo, and cut off some of the god’s land.
πολεμεῖν οὖν πρὸς τοὺς Κιρραίους ἔδοξεν Ἀμφικτύοσι, καὶ Κλεισθένην τε Σικυωνίων τυραννοῦντα προεστήσαντο ἡγεμόνα εἶναι καὶ Σόλωνα ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν ἐπηγάγοντο συμβουλεύειν· χρωμένοις δέ σφισιν ὑπὲρ νίκης ἀνεῖπεν ἡ Πυθία· "οὐ πρὶν τῆσδε πόληος ἐρείψετε πύργον ἑλόντες, πρίν κεν ἐμῷ τεμένει κυανώπιδος Ἀμφιτρίτης κῦμα ποτικλύζῃ κελαδοῦν ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον." ἔπεισεν οὖν ὁ Σόλων καθιερῶσαι τῷ θεῷ τὴν Κιρραίαν, ἵνα δὴ τῷ τεμένει τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος γένηται γείτων ἡ θάλασσα.
Therefore the Amphictyons resolved to make war on the Cirrheans, and they appointed Cleisthenes, the tyrant of the Sicyonians, to be leader, and invited Solon from Athens to give counsel. When they consulted the oracle about victory, the Pythia declared: “You shall not capture and destroy the tower of this city, before the wave of dark-eyed Amphitrite, roaring over the wine-dark sea, washes against my sanctuary.” Solon therefore persuaded them to consecrate the Cirrhean land to the god, so that the sea might become neighbor to the sanctuary of Apollo.
εὑρέθη δὲ καὶ ἕτερον τῷ Σόλωνι σόφισμα ἐς τοὺς Κιρραίους· τοῦ γὰρ Πλείστου τὸ ὕδωρ ῥέον διὰ ὀχετοῦ σφισιν ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἀπέστρεψεν ἀλλαχόσε ὁ Σόλων. καὶ οἱ μὲν πρὸς τοὺς πολιορκοῦντας ἔτι ἀντεῖχον ἔκ τε φρεάτων καὶ ὕδωρ τὸ ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ πίνοντες· ὁ δὲ τοῦ ἐλλεβόρου τὰς ῥίζας ἐμβαλὼν ἐς τὸν Πλεῖστον, ἐπειδὴ ἱκανῶς τοῦ φαρμάκου τὸ ὕδωρ ᾔσθετο ἔχον,5 ἀπέστρεψεν αὖθις ἐς τὸν ὀχετόν. καὶ—ἐνεφορήσαντο γὰρ ἀνέδην οἱ Κιρραῖοι τοῦ ὕδατος— οἱ μὲν ὑπὸ ἀπαύστου τῆς διαρροίας ἐξέλιπον οἱ ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους τὴν φρουράν, Ἀμφικτύονες δὲ ὡς εἷλον τὴν πόλιν, ἐπράξαντο ὑπὲρ τοῦ θεοῦ δίκας παρὰ Κιρραίων, καὶ ἐπίνειον Δελφῶν ἐστιν ἡ Κίρρα. παρέχεται δὲ καὶ ἐς θέαν Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ Λητοῦς ναόν τε καὶ ἀγάλματα μεγέθει μεγάλα καὶ ἐργασίας Ἀττικῆς. ἡ δὲ Ἀδράστεια ἵδρυται μὲν ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ σφίσι, μεγέθει δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀποδέουσα ἀγαλμάτων ἐστίν.
Another stratagem was also devised by Solon against the Cirrheans: the water of the Plistus, which flowed through a conduit into their city, Solon diverted elsewhere. And they still held out against the besiegers, drinking from wells and the water sent by the god. But he, having thrown the roots of hellebore into the Plistus, when he perceived that the water held enough of the drug, turned it back again into the conduit. And—since the Cirrheans drank of the water without restraint—on account of the unceasing diarrhea, those on the wall abandoned their guard, and the Amphictyons, when they captured the city, took vengeance upon the Cirrheans on behalf of the god, and Cirrha is the harbor of Delphi. It also offers to sight a temple of Apollo, Artemis, and Leto, and images of great size and of Attic workmanship. Adrasteia is dedicated in the same place as theirs, but in size she is inferior to the other images.
- 10.37.1προελθόντι
Dative participle of reference, common in geographical descriptions. An indefinite pronoun (like τινί) or 'we' (ἡμῖν) is understood, meaning 'as you go forward' or 'if one advances'.
- 10.37.2καὶ εἰ ἀρχήν ἐστιν
The conjunction εἰ introduces an indirect question ('whether'), combined with ἀρχήν used adverbially in the accusative ('at all', 'in the first place'). The phrase means 'whether there is any road at all by land'.
- 10.37.4τάχα μέν που καὶ αὐτὸς τῶν ἱππευόντων τινὰ ἀνιᾶσαι
The aorist active infinitive ἀνιᾶσαι depends on the main verb ἔοικε ('seems likely to', 'is apt to') from the preceding clause, with ὁ δὲ ἱππόδρομος acting as its subject.
- 10.37.5λέγεται δὲ ... φασίν
A redundant or pleonastic construction where two verbs of reporting, the passive λέγεται ('it is said') and the active φασίν ('they say'), are used together in the same sentence.
- 10.37.7ἐπειδὴ ἱκανῶς τοῦ φαρμάκου τὸ ὕδωρ ᾔσθετο ἔχον
The subject of ᾔσθετο (aorist of αἰσθάνομαι) is Solon. It takes τὸ ὕδωρ as its direct object in the accusative, accompanied by the supplementary participle ἔχον (which governs the genitive τοῦ φαρμάκου), meaning 'when he perceived that the water held enough of the drug'.