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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 · 2026-10-28
The author describes the ruins of the temple of Artemis Cordaca and the chest containing the bones of Pelops near Pisa, followed by the history of Pisa's conflicts with Elis over the Olympic games leading to its destruction, and the ruins of Pylos in Elis.
προελθόντι1 δὲ ὅσον τε στάδιον ἀπὸ τοῦ τάφου σημεῖά ἐστιν ἱεροῦ Κορδάκας ἐπίκλησιν Ἀρτέμιδος, ὅτι οἱ τοῦ Πέλοπος ἀκόλουθοι τὰ ἐπινίκια ἤγαγον παρὰ τῇ θεῷ ταύτῃ καὶ ὠρχήσαντο ἐπιχώριον τοῖς περὶ τὸν Σίπυλον κόρδακα ὄρχησιν. τοῦ ἱεροῦ δὲ οὐ πόρρω οἴκημά τε οὐ μέγα καὶ κιβωτός ἐστιν ἐν αὐτῷ χαλκῆ· ὀστᾶ τὰ Πέλοπος ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ φυλάσσουσι. τείχους δὲ ἢ ἄλλου κατασκευάσματος ἐλείπετο οὐδὲν ἔτι, ἄμπελοι δὲ ἦσαν διὰ τοῦ χωρίου πεφυτευμέναι παντός, ἔνθα ἡ Πίσα ᾠκεῖτο.
For one proceeding about a stade from the tomb, there are ruins of a temple of Artemis surnamed Cordaca, because the followers of Pelops celebrated their victory by this goddess and danced the cordax, a dance native to the people around Sipylus. Not far from the temple is a small building, and in it is a bronze chest; they preserve the bones of Pelops in the chest. Of a wall or any other building nothing was left anymore, but vines were planted through the whole place where Pisa used to be inhabited.
οἰκιστὴν μὲν δὴ γενέσθαι τῇ πόλει Πίσον τὸν Περιήρους φασὶ τοῦ Αἰόλου· Πισαῖοι δὲ ἐφειλκύσαντο αὐθαίρετον συμφορὰν ἀπεχθανόμενοί τε Ἠλείοις καὶ σπουδὴν ποιούμενοι τιθέναι τὸν Ὀλυμπικὸν ἀγῶνα ἀντὶ Ἠλείων, οἵγε2 Ὀλυμπιάδι μὲν τῇ ὀγδόῃ τὸν Ἀργεῖον ἐπηγάγοντο Φείδωνα τυράννων τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησι μάλιστα ὑβρίσαντα καὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἔθεσαν ὁμοῦ τῷ Φείδωνι, τετάρτῃ δὲ Ὀλυμπιάδι καὶ τριακοστῇ στρατὸν οἱ Πισαῖοι καὶ βασιλεὺς αὐτῶν Πανταλέων ὁ Ὀμφαλίωνος παρὰ τῶν προσχώρων ἀθροίσαντες ἐποίησαν ἀντὶ Ἠλείων τὰ Ὀλύμπια.
They say indeed that the founder of the city was Pisus, the son of Perieres, the son of Aeolus. But the Pisatans brought upon themselves a self-incurred disaster by making themselves hated by the Eleans and by being eager to hold the Olympic games instead of the Eleans; in the eighth Olympiad they brought in Pheidon of Argos, the most insolent of the tyrants among the Greeks, and held the games together with Pheidon, and in the thirty-fourth Olympiad the Pisatans and their king Pantaleon, the son of Omphalion, having gathered an army from their neighbors, celebrated the Olympic games instead of the Eleans.
ταύτας τὰς Ὀλυμπιάδας καὶ ἐπʼ αὐταῖς τὴν τετάρτην τε καὶ ἑκατοστήν, τεθεῖσαν δὲ ὑπὸ Ἀρκάδων, ἀνολυμπιάδας οἱ Ἠλεῖοι καλοῦντες οὐ σφᾶς ἐν καταλόγῳ τῶν Ὀλυμπιάδων γράφουσιν. ὀγδόῃ δὲ ἐπὶ ταῖς τεσσαράκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι Δαμοφῶν ὁ Πανταλέοντος ὑπόνοιαν μέν τινα παρέσχεν Ἠλείοις νεώτερα ἐς αὐτοὺς βουλεύειν, ἐσβαλόντας δὲ ἐς τὴν Πισαίαν σὺν ὅπλοις ἀπελθεῖν οἴκαδε ἀπράκτους ἔπεισε δεήσεσί τε καὶ ὅρκοις.
These Olympiads, and in addition to them the hundred and fourth, which was held by the Arcadians, the Eleans call ‘Anolympiads’ and do not register them in their list of Olympiads. In the forty-eighth Olympiad Damophon, the son of Pantaleon, gave the Eleans some suspicion that he was plotting a rebellion against them, but when they invaded the Pisatic territory with arms, he persuaded them to return home without accomplishing anything, by means of entreaties and oaths.
Πύρρου δὲ τοῦ Πανταλέοντος μετὰ Δαμοφῶντα τὸν ἀδελφὸν βασιλεύσαντος Πισαῖοι πόλεμον ἑκούσιον ἐπανείλοντο Ἠλείοις, συναπέστησαν δέ σφισιν ἀπὸ Ἠλείων Μακίστιοι καὶ Σκιλλούντιοι, οὗτοι μὲν ἐκ τῆς Τριφυλίας, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων περιοίκων Δυσπόντιοι· τούτοις καὶ μάλιστα ἐς τοὺς Πισαίους οἰκεῖα ἦν, καὶ οἰκιστὴν Δυσποντέα γενέσθαι σφίσιν Οἰνομάου παῖδα ἐμνημόνευον. Πισαίους μὲν δὴ καὶ ὅσοι τοῦ πολέμου Πισαίοις μετέσχον, ἐπέλαβεν3 ἀναστάτους ὑπὸ Ἠλείων γενέσθαι·
When Pyrrhus the son of Pantaleon became king after his brother Damophon, the Pisatans voluntarily undertook a war against the Eleans, and there revolted with them from the Eleans the Macistians and the Scilluntians, these being from Triphylia, and of the other neighbors, the Dyspontians; these had a very close relationship with the Pisatans, and they remembered that their founder Dysponteus was a son of Oenomaus. Indeed, it overtook the Pisatans, and all who had shared with the Pisatans in the war, to be destroyed by the Eleans.
Πύλου δὲ τῆς ἐν τῇ Ἠλείᾳ δῆλα τὰ ἐρείπια κατὰ τὴν ἐξ Ὀλυμπίας ἐστὶν ἐς Ἦλιν ὀρεινὴν ὁδόν, ὀγδοήκοντα δὲ στάδια ἐς Ἦλιν ἀπὸ τῆς Πύλου. ταύτην τὴν Πύλον ᾤκισε μὲν κατὰ τὰ ἤδη λελεγμένα μοι Μεγαρεὺς ἀνὴρ Πύλων ὁ Κλήσωνος· γενομένη δὲ ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέους ἀνάστατος καὶ αὖθις ἐπισυνοικισθεῖσα ὑπὸ Ἠλείων, ἔμελλεν ἀνὰ χρόνον οὐχ ἕξειν οἰκήτορας. παρὰ δὲ αὐτὴν ποταμὸς Λάδων κάτεισιν ἐς τὸν Πηνειόν.
The ruins of Pylos in the Elean territory are clearly visible on the mountain road from Olympia to Elis, and it is eighty stades from Pylos to Elis. This Pylos was founded, according to what I have already stated, by a Megarian named Pylon, the son of Cleson; though it was laid waste by Heracles and afterwards recolonized by the Eleans, it was destined in course of time to have no inhabitants. Beside it the river Ladon flows down into the Peneus.
- 6.22.1προελθόντι
A dative of reference (dativus iudicantis) commonly used in geographical and travel descriptions, meaning "for one who has gone forward."
- 6.22.2οἵγε
The relative pronoun with the emphasizing particle γε (nominative plural of ὅς γε) introduces a causal relative clause, showing why they deservedly brought disaster upon themselves.
- 6.22.4ἐπέλαβεν
The intransitive/impersonal use of the verb ἐπιλαμβάνω in the aorist, meaning "to overtake" or "to befall." It takes the accusative (Πισαίους μὲν δὴ...) as its object, with the infinitive clause (ἀναστάτους... γενέσθαι) describing the event that befell them.