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- Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.
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Pausanias describes the flooded plain of Pheneus, the chasms believed to be dug by Heracles, and the city's acropolis containing the temple of Athena and a bronze Poseidon dedicated by Odysseus.
Φενεατῶν δὲ τὸ πεδίον κεῖται μὲν ὑπὸ ταῖς Καρυαῖς, πλεονάσαντος δέ ποτε αὐτῷ τοῦ ὕδατος κατακλυσθῆναί φασι τὴν ἀρχαίαν Φενεόν, ὥστε καὶ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν σημεῖα ἐλείπετο ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρῶν ἐς ἃ ἐπαναβῆναι τὸ ὕδωρ λέγουσι. Καρυῶν δὲ στάδια πέντε ἀφέστηκεν ἥ τε Ὄρυξις καλουμένη καὶ ἕτερον ὄρος Σκίαθις· ὑφʼ ἑκατέρῳ δέ ἐστι τῷ ὄρει βάραθρον τὸ ὕδωρ καταδεχόμενον τὸ ἐκ τοῦ πεδίου.
The plain of the Pheneatians lies below Caryae, and they say that once when the water superabounded, ancient Pheneus was flooded, so that even in our time marks were left on the mountains where they say the water rose. Five stadia away from Caryae is the mountain called Oryxis and another mountain, Sciathis; and under each mountain is a chasm that receives the water from the plain.
τὰ δὲ βάραθρα οἱ Φενεᾶται ταῦτά φασιν εἶναι χειροποίητα, ποιῆσαι δὲ αὐτὰ Ἡρακλέα τηνικαῦτα ἐν Φενεῷ παρὰ Λαονόμῃ τῇ Ἀμφιτρύωνος μητρὶ οἰκοῦντα· γενέσθαι γὰρ Ἀμφιτρύωνα ἐκ Λαονόμης Ἀλκαίῳ τῆς Γούνεω,1 γυναικὸς Φενεάτιδος, καὶ οὐκ ἐκ τῆς Πέλοπος Λυσιδίκης. εἰ δὲ Ἡρακλῆς ἀληθεῖ λόγῳ παρὰ τοὺς Φενεάτας μετῴκησε, πείθοιτο ἄν2 τις διωχθέντα ἐκ Τίρυνθος ὑπὸ Εὐρυσθέως αὐτὸν οὐκ αὐτίκα ἐς Θήβας, πρότερον δὲ ἐς Φενεὸν ἀφικέσθαι.
The Pheneatians say that these chasms are man-made, and that Heracles made them at the time when he lived in Pheneus with Laonome, the mother of Amphitryon; for they say Amphitryon was born to Alcaeus from Laonome, the daughter of Guneus, a Pheneatian woman, and not from Lysidice, the daughter of Pelops. And if Heracles in true account migrated to the Pheneatians, one might be persuaded that, having been driven from Tiryns by Eurystheus, he did not go immediately to Thebes, but arrived first at Pheneus.
διὰ μέσου δὲ ὤρυξεν Ἡρακλῆς τοῦ Φενεατῶν πεδίου ἔλυτρον, ῥεῦμα εἶναι3 τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Ὀλβίῳ, ὅν τινα Ἀροάνιον Ἀρκάδων καλοῦσιν ἕτεροι καὶ οὐκ Ὄλβιον· μῆκος μὲν τοῦ ὀρύγματος στάδιοι πεντήκοντά εἰσι, βάθος δέ, ὅσον μὴ πεπτωκός ἐστιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐς τριάκοντα καθήκει πόδας. οὐ μὴν ταύτῃ γε ἔτι κάτεισιν ὁ ποταμός, ἀλλὰ ἐς τὸ ῥεῦμα ἀπεχώρησεν αὖθις τὸ ἀρχαῖον, καταλιπὼν τοῦ Ἡρακλέους τὸ ἔργον.
Through the middle of the plain of the Pheneatians Heracles dug a channel, to be a stream for the river Olbius, which some other of the Arcadians call Aroanius and not Olbius; the length of the ditch is fifty stadia, and the depth, where it has not caved in, reaches even to thirty feet. Yet the river no longer goes down this way, but has retreated again into its ancient stream, leaving behind the work of Heracles.
τῶν βαράθρων δὲ τῶν ἐν τοῖς εἰρημένοις πεποιημένων ὄρεσιν ἀπωτέρω πεντήκοντά που σταδίοις ἐστὶν ἡ πόλις· οἰκιστὴν δὲ οἱ Φενεᾶται λέγουσιν ἄνδρα αὐτόχθονα εἶναι Φενεόν. ἔστι δέ σφισιν ἀκρόπολις ἀπότομος πανταχόθεν, τὰ μὲν πολλὰ ἔχουσα οὕτως, ὀλίγα δὲ αὐτῆς καὶ ὠχυρώσαντο ὑπὲρ ἀσφαλείας. ἐνταῦθα ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει ναός ἐστιν Ἀθηνᾶς ἐπίκλησιν Τριτωνίας, ἐρείπια δὲ ἐλείπετο αὐτοῦ μόνα·
About fifty stadia away from the chasms made in the mountains mentioned is the city; and the Pheneatians say that the founder was an indigenous man, Pheneus. They have an acropolis sheer on all sides, being mostly so by nature, but they fortified a small part of it for safety. Here on the acropolis is a temple of Athena surnamed Tritonia, and only its ruins were left;
καὶ Ποσειδῶν χαλκοῦς ἕστηκεν ἐπωνυμίαν Ἵππιος, ἀναθεῖναι δὲ τὸ ἄγαλμα τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος Ὀδυσσέα ἔφασαν· ἀπολέσθαι γὰρ ἵππους τῷ Ὀδυσσεῖ, καὶ αὐτὸν γῆν τὴν Ἑλλάδα κατὰ ζήτησιν ἐπιόντα τῶν ἵππων ἱδρύσασθαι μὲν ἱερὸν ἐνταῦθα Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ Εὑρίππαν ὀνομάσαι τὴν θεόν, ἔνθα τῆς Φενεατικῆς χώρας εὗρε τὰς ἵππους, ἀναθεῖναι δὲ καὶ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος τὸ ἄγαλμα τοῦ Ἱππίου.
and a bronze Poseidon stands there with the surname Hippius, and they said that Odysseus dedicated the image of Poseidon; for they say Odysseus lost his mares, and while traversing the land of Greece in search of the mares, he founded a sanctuary of Artemis here and named the goddess Heurippa, where in the Pheneatian land he found the mares, and he also dedicated the image of Poseidon Hippius.
τῷ δὲ Ὀδυσσεῖ λέγουσιν εὑρόντι τὰς ἵππους γενέσθαι οἱ κατὰ γνώμην4 ἐν χώρᾳ τῇ Φενεατῶν ἔχειν ἵππους, καθάπερ γε καὶ τὰς βοῦς ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ τῆς Ἰθάκης ἀπαντικρὺ τρέφειν αὐτόν· καί μοι καὶ γράμματα οἱ Φενεᾶται παρείχοντο ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀγάλματος γεγραμμένα τῷ βάθρῳ, τοῦ Ὀδυσσέως δή τι πρόσταγμα τοῖς ποιμαίνουσι τὰς ἵππους.
They say that when Odysseus found his mares, it became to his mind to keep horses in the land of the Pheneatians, just as indeed he also reared his cattle on the mainland opposite Ithaca; and the Pheneatians also showed me letters written on the pedestal of the image, being indeed some command of Odysseus to those tending the mares.
- 8.14.2Ἀλκαίῳ τῆς Γούνεω
The dative Ἀλκαίῳ is a dative of interest or agent, meaning 'born to Alcaeus'. τῆς Γούνεω is an Attic genitive singular of Guneus (Γούνης), indicating 'the daughter of Guneus'.
- 8.14.2πείθοιτο ἄν
The optative with ἄν (πείθοιτο ἄν) expresses potentiality ('one might be persuaded'). It takes an accusative and infinitive construction consisting of the subject accusative αὐτόν and the infinitive ἀφικέσθαι. The aorist passive participle διωχθέντα agrees with αὐτόν.
- 8.14.3ῥεῦμα εἶναι
The infinitive εἶναι is used to express purpose or result after the verb of digging (ὤρυξεν), meaning 'so as to be a stream' or 'to serve as a channel'.
- 8.14.6γενέσθαι οἱ κατὰ γνώμην
οἱ is the third-person singular dative pronoun (referring to Odysseus). The idiom γενέσθαι κατὰ γνώμην means 'to be to one's mind' or 'to please someone', where the subject is the infinitive clause ἔχειν ἵππους ('to keep horses').