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- Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.
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- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:4.35.7-4.35.11
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-26
After describing the desolation of Mothone due to the cunning plunder by the Illyrians, the text introduces the temple of Athena in Mothone and various miraculous waters known to the author, such as the blue water of Thermopylae, the red water of Joppa, and the hot, acidic waters of Astyra and Dicaearchia.
ἐς δὲ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἀφικομένων ἐκ τῆς πόλεως πλειόνων παρέχουσι1 καὶ τοῖσδε κερδᾶναι· τέλος δὲ γυναῖκες καὶ ἄνδρες κατίασιν ἐπὶ τὰ πλοῖα οἶνόν τε ἀποδόσθαι καὶ ἐκ τῶν βαρβάρων ἀντιληψόμενοι. ἔνθα νῦν ἀποτολμήσαντες οἱ Ἰλλυριοὶ καὶ ἄνδρας πολλοὺς καὶ ἔτι πλείονας τῶν γυναικῶν ἁρπάζουσιν· ἐσθέμενοι δὲ ἐς τὰς ναῦς ἔπλεον τὴν ἐπὶ Ἰονίου, Μοθωναίων ἐρημώσαντες τὸ ἄστυ.
On the next day, when more people arrived from the city, they offered to these people also the opportunity to make a profit. And finally, both women and men came down to the ships, intending both to sell wine and to receive goods in exchange from the barbarians. Then indeed, having grown bold, the Illyrians seized many men and even more of the women; and having put them into the ships, they sailed off over the Ionian Sea, having desolated the town of the Mothonaeans.
ἐν Μοθώνῃ δὲ ναός ἐστιν Ἀθηνᾶς Ἀνεμώτιδος· Διομήδην δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμα ἀναθεῖναι καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῇ θεῷ φασι θέσθαι. βιαιότεροι γὰρ καὶ οὐ κατὰ καιρὸν πνέοντες ἐλυμαίνοντο οἱ ἄνεμοι τὴν χώραν· Διομήδους δὲ εὐξαμένου τῇ Ἀθηνᾷ, τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου συμφορά σφισιν οὐδεμία ἀνέμων γε ἕνεκα ἦλθεν ἐς τὴν γῆν. καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος δʼ ἱερόν ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα καὶ ὕδωρ ἐν φρέατι κεκραμένον πίσσῃ, Κυζικηνῷ μύρῳ μάλιστα ἰδεῖν ἐμφερές· παράσχοιτο δʼ ἂν πᾶσαν καὶ χρόαν ὕδωρ καὶ ὀσμήν.
In Mothone there is a temple of Athena Anemotis; and they say that Diomedes dedicated the statue and gave the name to the goddess. For the winds, blowing too violently and unseasonably, used to damage the land; but after Diomedes prayed to Athena, from that time on no disaster came upon their land, at least on account of the winds. There is also a sanctuary of Artemis there, and water in a well mixed with pitch, very similar in appearance to Cyzicene ointment; and the water would present both its exact color and smell.
γλαυκότατον μὲν οἶδα ὕδωρ θεασάμενος τὸ ἐν Θερμοπύλαις, οὔτι που πᾶν, ἀλλʼ ὅσον κάτεισιν ἐς τὴν κολυμβήθραν ἥντινα ὀνομάζουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι Χύτρους γυναικείους· ξανθὸν δὲ ὕδωρ, οὐδέν τι ἀποδέον τὴν χρόαν αἵματος, Ἑβραίων ἡ γῆ παρέχεται πρὸς Ἰόππῃ πόλει· θαλάσσης μὲν ἐγγυτάτω τὸ ὕδωρ ἐστί, λόγον δὲ ἐς τὴν πηγὴν λέγουσιν2 οἱ ταύτῃ, Περσέα ἀνελόντα τὸ κῆτος, ᾧ τὴν παῖδα προκεῖσθαι τοῦ Κηφέως, ἐνταῦθα τὸ αἷμα ἀπονίψασθαι.
Now, I know that I have seen the bluest water at Thermopylae, not indeed all of it, but as much as goes down into the basin which the inhabitants call the Women’s Pots. And the land of the Hebrews near the city of Joppa provides yellow water, in no way inferior to the color of blood; the water is very close to the sea, and the people of that place tell a story about the spring, that Perseus, having slain the monster to which the daughter of Cepheus had been exposed, washed off his blood there.
ὕδωρ δὲ ἀπὸ πηγῶν ἀνερχόμενον μέλαν ἰδὼν οἶδα ἐν Ἀστύροις· τὰ δὲ Ἄστυρα ἀπαντικρὺ Λέσβου λουτρά ἐστι θερμὰ ἐν τῷ Ἀταρνεῖ καλουμένῳ. τὸ δὲ χωρίον ἐστὶν ὁ Ἀταρνεὺς ὁ Χίων μισθός, ὃν παρὰ τοῦ Μήδου λαμβάνουσιν ἄνδρα ἐκδόντες ἱκέτην, Πακτύην τὸν Λυδόν. τοῦτο μὲν δὴ μελαίνεται, Ῥωμαίοις δὲ ὑπὲρ τὴν πόλιν, διαβάντων3 τὸν Ἄνιον ὀνομαζόμενον ποταμόν, ὕδωρ λευκόν ἐστιν· ἀνδρὶ δὲ ἐσβάντι ἐς αὐτὸ τὸ μὲν παραυτίκα ψυχρόν τε πρόσεισι καὶ ἐμποιεῖ φρίκην, ἐπισχόντι δὲ ὀλίγον ἅτε φάρμακον θερμαίνει τὸ πυρωδέστατον.
And I know that I have seen black water coming up from springs in Astyra; and Astyra is a hot bath opposite Lesbos, in the place called Atarneus. This place, Atarneus, was the reward of the Chians, which they received from the Mede for giving up a suppliant, Pactyes the Lydian. This water indeed is black; but for the Romans above the city, when they have crossed the river called Anio, there is white water; and to a man who enters it, at first it feels cold and causes a shiver, but when he has waited a little, it warms him in the most fiery manner, like medicine.
καὶ ὅσαις μὲν πηγαῖς θαῦμά τι ἦν καὶ ἰδόντι, τοσαύτας θεασάμενος οἶδα, τὰς γὰρ δὴ ἐλάσσονος θαύματος ἐπιστάμενος παρίημι· ἁλμυρὸν δὲ ὕδωρ καὶ στρυφνὸν οὐ μέγα θαῦμα ἐξευρεῖν. δύο δὲ ἀλλοῖα· τὸ μὲν τῆς Καρίας ἐν πεδίῳ καλουμένῳ Λευκῷ θερμόν ἐστιν ὕδωρ παρὰ κώμην ὀνομαζομένην Δασκύλου, πιεῖν καὶ γάλακτος ἥδιον· τὸν δὲ Ἡρόδοτον οἶδα εἰπόντα ὡς ἐς τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν Ὕπανιν ἐκδίδωσιν ὕδατος πικροῦ πηγή. πῶς δʼ ἂν οὐκ ἀποδεξαίμεθα ἀληθεύειν αὐτῷ τὸν λόγον, ὅπου γε καὶ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἐν Δικαιαρχίᾳ τῇ Τυρρηνῶν ἐξεύρηται ὕδωρ σφίσι4 θερμὸν οὕτω δή τι ὀξὺ ὥστε τὸν μόλυβδον—διεξῄει γὰρ διὰ μολύβδου ῥέον —ἔτεσι κατέτηξεν οὐ πολλοῖς;
And as many springs as had some wonder even for one who saw them, so many I know I have beheld; for those of lesser wonder, though I know of them, I pass over. To find salty and astringent water is no great wonder; but there are two of a different kind. One in Caria, in the plain called White, is hot water near a village named after Dascylus, sweeter to drink than even milk. And I know that Herodotus said that a spring of bitter water empties into the river Hypanis; and how should we not accept that his account is true, seeing that even in our own time at Dicaearchia in the land of the Tyrrhenians, hot water for them has been found, which is so acidic that it dissolved lead—for it passed through flowing in lead—in not many years?
- 4.35.7παρέχουσι
The subject is not explicitly stated but is 'the Illyrians' (οἱ Ἰλλυριοί) from the previous section. The indirect object 'to these also' (καὶ τοῖσδε) refers to 'more people from the city' (ἐκ τῆς πόλεως πλειόνων) in the genitive absolute clause. The infinitive κερδᾶναι functions as the object of παρέχουσι.
- 4.35.9λόγον δὲ ἐς τὴν πηγὴν λέγουσιν
This phrase introduces the subsequent accusative with infinitive construction (Περσέα... ἀπονίψασθαι). The relative pronoun ᾧ (dative) indicates the object set before the monster (the daughter of Cepheus) within the relative clause governed by the infinitive προκεῖσθαι as part of the indirect discourse.
- 4.35.10διαβάντων
A genitive absolute with its logical subject omitted, expressing condition ('if they cross') or time ('when they have crossed'). Contextually, it refers to any general traveler crossing the river Anio.
- 4.35.11σφίσι
The dative plural of the third-person reflexive pronoun, here functioning as a dative of interest/advantage ('for them', i.e., the local inhabitants, or indicating the locality 'there in their land').