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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 · 2026-10-30
Pausanias describes a building in Aegeira containing a statue of Fortune and a mourning family, the road leading to Phelloe, the origins of Pellene, the ruined town of Donussa in Homeric scholarship, and the harbor of Aristonautae.
οἶδα καὶ οἴκημα ἐν Αἰγείρᾳ θεασάμενος·1 ἄγαλμα ἦν ἐν τῷ οἰκήματι Τύχης, τὸ κέρας φέρουσα2 τὸ Ἀμαλθείας· παρὰ δὲ αὐτὴν Ἔρως πτερὰ ἔχων ἐστίν, ἐθέλει δὲ σημαίνειν ὅτι ἀνθρώποις καὶ τὰ ἐς ἔρωτα τύχῃ μᾶλλον ἢ ὑπὸ κάλλους κατορθοῦται. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν Πινδάρου τά τε ἄλλα πείθομαι τῇ ᾠδῇ καὶ Μοιρῶν τε εἶναι μίαν τὴν Τύχην καὶ ὑπὲρ τὰς ἀδελφάς τι ἰσχύειν·
I know also that I saw a building in Aegeira; there was an image of Fortune (Tyche) in the building, carrying the horn of Amaltheia; and beside her is Eros with wings, which is intended to signify that for humans even the affairs of love are succeeded by fortune rather than by beauty. I, then, believe Pindar’s ode in other respects and that Fortune is one of the Fates (Moirai) and is more powerful in some way than her sisters.
ἐν Αἰγείρᾳ δὲ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ οἰκήματι ἀνήρ τε ἤδη γέρων ἴσα καὶ ὀδυρόμενος3 καὶ γυναῖκες τρεῖς ἀφαιρούμεναι ψέλιά4 εἰσι καὶ ἴσοι νεανίσκοι ταῖς γυναιξί, ἐνδεδυκὼς δὲ θώρακα εἷς. τοῦτόν φασιν Ἀχαιοῖς γενομένου πολέμου μαχεσάμενον ἀνδρειότατα Αἰγειρατῶν τελευτῆσαι, καὶ αὐτοῦ τὸν θάνατον οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν οἴκαδε ἀπήγγειλαν· καὶ τοῦδε ἕνεκα αἵ τε ἀδελφαὶ διὰ τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ πένθος ἀποκοσμοῦνται καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἐπονομάζουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι Συμπαθῆ, ἅτε ἐλεεινὸν καὶ ἐν τῇ εἰκόνι.
In Aegeira, in this building, there are a man already old, just like one mourning, and three women taking off their armlets, and young men equal in number to the women, one of whom has put on a breastplate. They say that this man, when a war arose for the Achaeans, died after fighting most bravely of the Aegeirates, and the rest of his brothers reported his death home; and for this reason the sisters lay aside their ornaments because of their grief for him, and the locals surname the father Sympathes, seeing that he is pitiable even in the image.
ὁδὸς δὲ ἐξ Αἰγείρας εὐθεῖα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τοῦ Διὸς διά τε ὀρῶν καὶ ἀνάντης ἐστί· μῆκος μὲν οὖν τῆς ὁδοῦ τεσσαράκοντά εἰσι στάδιοι, ἄγει δὲ ἐς Φελλόην, πόλισμα οὐκ ἐπιφανές, †οὐδὲ ὡς ἀεὶ ᾠκεῖτο καὶ Ἰώνων ἔτι ἐχόντων τὴν γῆν. τὰ δὲ περὶ τὴν Φελλόην ἐς φυτείαν ἀμπέλων ἐστὶν ἐπιτήδεια· καὶ ὅσα πετρώδη τῆς χώρας, δρῦς τέ εἰσι καὶ θηρία, ἔλαφοι καὶ ὗς ἄγριοι·
The road from Aegeira, straight from the sanctuary of Zeus, is through mountains and uphill; the length of the road is forty stades, and it leads to Phelloe, a town of no great repute, †nor was it always inhabited, even when the Ionians still held the land. The district around Phelloe is suitable for the cultivation of vines; and such parts of the country as are stony produce oaks and wild beasts, deer and wild boars.
εἰ δέ τινα τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησι πολισματίων ἀφθόνῳ καταρρεῖται τῷ ὕδατι, ἀριθμεῖν καὶ τὴν Φελλόην ἔστιν ἐν τούτοις. θεῶν δὲ ἱερὰ Διονύσου καὶ Ἀρτέμιδός ἐστιν· ἡ μὲν χαλκοῦ πεποίηται, βέλος δὲ ἐκ φαρέτρας λαμβάνουσα· τῷ Διονύσῳ δὲ ὑπὸ κινναβάρεως τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστιν ἐπηνθισμένον. ἐς δὲ τὸ ἐπίνειον καταβᾶσιν ἐξ Αἰγείρας καὶ αὖθις ἐς τὰ πρόσω βαδίζουσιν5 ἔστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς ὁδοῦ τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Ἀγροτέρας, ἔνθα τὴν αἶγα ὀκλάσαι λέγουσιν.
And if any of the small towns among the Greeks is copiously flowed down with water, one may count Phelloe also among these. There are sanctuaries of the gods, of Dionysus and of Artemis; the latter is made of bronze, taking an arrow from her quiver; while the image of Dionysus is decorated with cinnabar. For those who have gone down to the harbor from Aegeira and are journeying forward again, there is on the right of the road the sanctuary of Agrotera, where they say the goat crouched down.
τῆς δὲ Αἰγειρατῶν ἔχονται6 Πελληνεῖς· πρὸς Σικυῶνος δὲ οὗτοι καὶ μοίρας τῆς Ἀργολίδος Ἀχαιῶν οἰκοῦσιν ἔσχατοι. τὸ δὲ ὄνομα ἐγένετο τῇ πόλει λόγῳ μὲν τῷ Πελληνέων ἀπὸ Πάλλαντος, τῶν Τιτάνων δὲ καὶ Πάλλαντα εἶναι λέγουσι, δόξῃ δὲ τῇ Ἀργείων ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς Ἀργείου Πέλληνος· Φόρβαντος δὲ εἶναι τοῦ Τριόπα παῖδα αὐτὸν λέγουσιν.
Next to the territory of the Aegeirates are the Pellenians; these dwell as the last of the Achaeans in the direction of Sicyon and the border of Argolis. The name was given to the city, according to the account of the Pellenians, from Pallas—and they say Pallas was one of the Titans—but according to the opinion of the Argives, from an Argive man, Pelles; and they say he was a son of Phorbas, the son of Triopas.
Αἰγείρας δὲ ἐν τῷ μεταξὺ καὶ Πελλήνης πόλισμα ὑπήκοον Σικυωνίων Δονοῦσσα καλουμένη ἐγένετο μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν Σικυωνίων ἀνάστατος, μνημονεύειν δὲ καὶ Ὅμηρον ἐν καταλόγῳ τῶν σὺν Ἀγαμέμνονί φασιν αὐτῆς ποιήσαντα ἔπος "οἵ θʼ Ὑπερησίην τε καὶ αἰπεινὴν Δονόεσσαν·" Πεισίστρατον δέ, ἡνίκα ἔπη τὰ Ὁμήρου διεσπασμένα τε καὶ ἄλλα ἀλλαχοῦ μνημονευόμενα ἤθροιζε, τότε αὐτὸν Πεισίστρατον ἢ τῶν τινα ἑταίρων μεταποιῆσαι7 τὸ ὄνομα ὑπὸ ἀγνοίας.
Between Aegeira and Pellene there was a small town subject to the Sicyonians, called Donussa, which was laid waste by the Sicyonians; and they say that Homer also made mention of it in the catalogue of those with Agamemnon, writing the verse: “And those who held Hyperesia and steep Donoessa;” but that Peisistratus, when he was collecting the verses of Homer which were scattered and remembered in different places, then Peisistratus himself or one of his companions changed the name through ignorance.
ἔστι δὲ Ἀριστοναῦται Πελληνεῦσιν ἐπίνειον. ἐς τοῦτο ἐξ Αἰγείρας τῆς ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ σταδίων ἐστὶν εἴκοσιν ὁδὸς καὶ ἑκατόν· ταύτης δὲ ἡμίσεια ἐς Πελλήνην ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπινείου. ὄνομα δὲ Ἀριστοναύτας γενέσθαι τῷ ἐπινείῳ λέγουσιν, ὅτι καὶ ἐς τοῦτον τὸν λιμένα ὡρμίσαντο οἱ πλεύσαντες ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀργοῦς.
Aristonautae is the harbor-town of the Pellenians. To this from Aegeira by the sea is a road of a hundred and twenty stades; and half of this distance is the road to Pellene from the harbor-town. They say that the name Aristonautae was given to the harbor-town because the men who sailed on the Argo anchored also in this harbor.
- 7.26.8οἶδα καὶ οἴκημα ἐν Αἰγείρᾳ θεασάμενος
The verb οἶδα takes the participle θεασάμενος as a complementary participle, meaning "I know that I saw" or "I remember seeing."
- 7.26.8τὸ κέρας φέρουσα
Although the preceding noun ἄγαλμα is neuter, the feminine nominative singular participle φέρουσα is used. This is a constructio ad sensum (agreement according to sense), agreeing with the preceding genitive noun Τύχης (Tyche) or the actual female gender of the goddess.
- 7.26.9ἴσα καὶ ὀδυρόμενος
The word ἴσα is an adverbial use of the neuter plural accusative, which along with the conjunction καί forms an idiomatic expression meaning "just like" or "in the same manner as."
- 7.26.9ἀφαιρούμεναι ψέλια
The participle ἀφαιρούμεναι is in the middle voice, meaning "taking off from themselves." Here it describes the action of removing their own armlets as an expression of mourning.
- 7.26.11καταβᾶσιν ... βαδίζουσιν
These are dative plural participles used as a dative of reference, indicating the perspective of the people moving ("for those who have gone down and are journeying forward").
- 7.26.12τῆς δὲ Αἰγειρατῶν ἔχονται
The verb ἔχομαι (primarily in the middle voice) governs the genitive case and means "to border on" or "be adjacent to." Here it indicates bordering on the territory of the Aegeirates.
- 7.26.13μεταποιῆσαι
This infinitive continues the indirect speech (accusative with infinitive construction) introduced by the verb φασίν ("they say") in the preceding sentence, with Πεισίστρατον as its subject accusative.