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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 · 2026-10-24
Pausanias describes inland towns near Geronthrae, such as Marios and Glyppia, and then details the coastal city of Asopus with its sanctuaries, followed by the foundation myth of Boeae, its public buildings, and the ruins of Etis.
Μαριὸς δὲ ἄλλο Ἐλευθερολακώνων πόλισμα, ὃ ἀπὸ Γερονθρῶν στάδια ἑκατὸν ἀφέστηκεν. ἱερόν ἐστιν αὐτόθι ἀρχαῖον κοινὸν θεῶν ἁπάντων καὶ περὶ αὐτὸ ἄλσος παρεχόμενον πηγάς, εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερῷ πηγαί· ὕδωρ δὲ ἄφθονον εἴπερ ἄλλο τι χωρίον παρέχεται καὶ Μαριός.1 κώμη δὲ ὑπὲρ τὸ πόλισμά ἐστιν ἐν μεσογαίᾳ καὶ αὐτή, Γλυππία· καὶ ἐς κώμην ἑτέραν Σελινοῦντα ἐκ Γερονθρῶν ἐστιν ὁδὸς σταδίων εἴκοσι.
Marios is another town of the Free Laconians, which is a hundred stades distant from Geronthrae. There is there an ancient sanctuary common to all the gods, and around it a grove providing springs; there are also springs in the sanctuary of Artemis. Marios provides abundant water, if indeed any other place does. Above the town in the interior is a village, itself also, Glyppia; and to another village, Selinus, from Geronthrae there is a road of twenty stades.
τάδε μὲν ἀπὸ Ἀκριῶν ἄνω πρὸς ἤπειρον· τὰ δὲ πρὸς θαλάσσῃ, πόλις Ἀσωπὸς Ἀκριῶν ἀπέχει σταδίους ἑξήκοντα. ἐν αὐτῇ δὲ ναός τε Ῥωμαίων βασιλέων καὶ ἀνωτέρω τῆς πόλεως ὅσον τε σταδίους δώδεκα ἱερόν ἐστιν Ἀσκληπιοῦ· Φιλόλαον τὸν θεὸν ὀνομάζουσι. τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ ἐν τῷ γυμνασίῳ τὰ τιμώμενα μεγέθει μὲν ὑπερβάλλοντα, ἀνθρώπου δὲ ὅμως ἐστί. καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερόν ἐστιν ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει Κυπαρισσίας ἐπίκλησιν. τῆς δὲ ἀκροπόλεως πρὸς τοῖς ποσὶ πόλεως ἐρείπια καλουμένης Ἀχαιῶν τῶν Παρακυπαρισσίων.
These things indeed are from Acriae inland towards the interior; as for those by the sea, the city Asopus is sixty stades distant from Acriae. In it there is a temple of the Roman emperors, and further up from the city, about twelve stades, is a sanctuary of Asclepius; they call the god Philolaus. The bones honored in the gymnasium are of extraordinary size, yet they are nevertheless of a human being. And there is a sanctuary of Athena on the acropolis, with the surname Cyparissia. At the foot of the acropolis are the ruins of a city called that of the Paracyparissian Achaeans.
ἔστι δὲ ἐν τῇ γῇ ταύτῃ καὶ ἱερὸν Ἀσκληπιοῦ στάδια ἀπέχον ὡς πεντήκοντα Ἀσωποῦ· τὸ δὲ χωρίον, ἔνθα τὸ Ἀσκληπιεῖον, Ὑπερτελέατον ὀνομάζουσιν. ἄκρα δὲ ἀνέχουσα ἐς θάλασσαν ἀφέστηκεν Ἀσωποῦ διακόσια στάδια· καλοῦσι δὲ Ὄνου γνάθον τὴν ἄκραν. ἐνταῦθά ἐστιν Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερὸν ἄγαλμα οὐκ ἔχον, οὐδὲ ὄροφος ἔπεστιν ἐπʼ αὐτῷ· λέγεται δὲ ὡς ὑπὸ Ἀγαμέμνονος ἐποιήθη. ἔστι δὲ καὶ μνῆμα Κινάδου· νεὼς τῆς Μενελάου καὶ οὗτος κυβερνήτης ἦν.
There is also in this land a sanctuary of Asclepius, about fifty stades distant from Asopus; and they name the place where the Asclepieum is Hyperteleaton. A cape projecting into the sea is two hundred stades distant from Asopus; and they call the cape the Jaw of an Ass. There is there a sanctuary of Athena which has no image, nor is there a roof upon it; and it is said that it was made by Agamemnon. There is also the monument of Cinadus; he too was the helmsman of the ship of Menelaus.
ἐσέχει δὲ μετὰ τὴν ἄκραν Βοιατικὸς καλούμενος κόλπος, καὶ Βοιαὶ πόλις πρὸς τῷ πέρατί ἐστι τοῦ κόλπου. ταύτην ᾤκισε μὲν Βοιὸς τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν, συναγαγεῖν δὲ ἄνδρας ἀπὸ τριῶν ἐς αὐτὴν λέγεται πόλεων, Ἤτιδος καὶ Ἀφροδισιάδος καὶ Σίδης. τῶν δὲ πόλεων τῶν ἀρχαίων τὰς μὲν δύο ἐς Ἰταλίαν φεύγοντα Αἰνείαν καὶ ὑπὸ πνευμάτων ἀπενεχθέντα ἐς τοῦτον τὸν κόλπον οἰκίσαι φασί,2 τὴν Ἠτιάδα Αἰνείου θυγατέρα λέγοντες εἶναι· τὴν τρίτην δὲ κληθῆναι τῶν πόλεων λέγουσιν ἀπὸ τῆς Δαναοῦ Σίδης.
After the cape there indents the gulf called Boeatic, and the city Boeae is at the end of the gulf. Boeus, one of the Heracleidae, founded this, but he is said to have gathered men into it from three cities, Etis, Aphrodisias, and Sida. Of these ancient cities, they say that Aeneas, fleeing to Italy and being driven by winds into this gulf, founded two of them, saying that Etias was a daughter of Aeneas; and they say that the third of the cities was named after Sida, the daughter of Danaus.
ἀπὸ δὴ τούτων τῶν πόλεων ἀναστάντες ἐζήτουν ἔνθα οἰκῆσαι σφᾶς χρεὼν εἴη· καί τι καὶ μάντευμα ἦν αὐτοῖς Ἄρτεμιν ἔνθα οἰκήσουσιν ἐπιδείξειν. ὡς οὖν ἐκβᾶσιν ἐς τὴν γῆν λαγὼς ἐπιφαίνεται,3 τὸν λαγὼν ἐποιήσαντο ἡγεμόνα τῆς ὁδοῦ· καταδύντος δὲ ἐς μυρσίνην πόλιν τε οἰκίζουσιν ἐνταῦθα, οὗπερ ἡ μυρσίνη ἦν, καὶ τὸ δένδρον ἔτι ἐκείνην σέβουσι τὴν μυρσίνην καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ὀνομάζουσι Σώτειραν.
Having therefore departed from these cities, they sought where it was necessary for them to dwell; and they had a certain oracle that Artemis would point out where they should dwell. When therefore they had disembarked onto the land, a hare appeared, and they made the hare the leader of their way; and when it ran into a myrtle bush, they founded a city there, where the myrtle was, and they still worship that myrtle tree and call Artemis Savior.
καὶ Ἀπόλλωνος ναὸς ἐν τῇ Βοιατῶν ἀγορᾷ ἐστι καὶ ἑτέρωθι Ἀσκληπιοῦ καὶ Σαράπιδός τε καὶ Ἴσιδος. Ἤτιδος δʼ ἐρείπια ἀπέχει μὲν Βοιῶν οὐ πλέον ἢ σταδίους ἑπτά· ἰόντι δὲ ἐς αὐτὰ ἄγαλμα Ἑρμοῦ λίθινον ἕστηκεν ἐν ἀριστερᾷ, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐρειπίοις ἱερὸν Ἀσκληπιοῦ καὶ Ὑγείας ἐστὶν οὐκ ἀφανές.
And there is a temple of Apollo in the marketplace of the Boeaeans, and elsewhere of Asclepius and of Sarapis and Isis. The ruins of Etis are distant from Boeae no more than seven stades; for one going to them, a stone statue of Hermes stands on the left, and among the ruins is a not undistinguished sanctuary of Asclepius and Hygeia.
- 3.22.8ὕδωρ δὲ ἄφθονον εἴπερ ἄλλο τι χωρίον παρέχεται καὶ Μαριός
An idiomatic comparative expression. The phrase εἴπερ ἄλλο τι χωρίον ("if indeed any other place [provides abundant water]") functions as an intensive superlative equivalent ("as much as any other place"), with καὶ Μαριός ("Marios also [provides]") serving as the main clause. The middle voice παρέχεται is used with an active sense of "to provide."
- 3.22.11τῶν δὲ πόλεων τῶν ἀρχαίων τὰς μὲν δύο... οἰκίσαι φασί
The genitive phrase τῶν δὲ πόλεων τῶν ἀρχαίων at the beginning of the sentence is a partitive genitive placed first, specifying the group from which the accusative object τὰς μὲν δύο is drawn in the accusative with infinitive construction (Aeneas... οἰκίσαι) governed by φασί.
- 3.22.12ὡς οὖν ἐκβᾶσιν ἐς τὴν γῆν λαγὼς ἐπιφαίνεται
The word ἐκβᾶσιν is the dative plural masculine of the aorist participle ἐκβάς, expressing a temporal circumstance ("when they had disembarked"). It functions as a dative of reference (dativus referentis) showing the persons for whom or in whose estimation the event (the appearance of the hare) occurred, corresponding to the subject of the main action (ἀναστάντες).