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- Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.
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Pausanias describes Mount Cyllene with its temple of Hermes and various rare white animals including its blackbirds, mentions the neighboring Mount Chelydorea, and details the route to Nonacris and the waterfall of the Styx.
μετὰ δὲ τοῦ Αἰπύτου τὸν τάφον ὄρος τε ὑψηλότατον ὀρῶν τῶν ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ Κυλλήνη καὶ Ἑρμοῦ Κυλληνίου κατερριμμένος ναός ἐστιν ἐπὶ κορυφῆς τοῦ ὄρους· δῆλα δέ ἐστιν1 ἀπὸ Κυλλῆνος τοῦ Ἐλάτου τῷ τε ὄρει τὸ ὄνομα καὶ ἡ ἐπίκλησις γεγενημένη τῷ θεῷ.
After the tomb of Aepytus, there is Cyllene, the highest mountain of the mountains in Arcadia, and a ruined temple of Cyllenian Hermes is on the peak of the mountain; and it is clear that from Cyllen, the son of Elatus, both the name came to the mountain and the epithet arose for the god.
τοῖς δὲ ἀνθρώποις τὸ ἀρχαῖον, ὁπόσα καὶ ἡμεῖς καταμαθεῖν ἐδυνήθημεν, τοσάδε ἦν ἀφʼ ὧν τὰ ξόανα ἐποιοῦντο, ἔβενος, κυπάρισσος, αἱ κέδροι, τὰ δρύινα, ἡ μῖλαξ, ὁ λωτός· τῷ δὲ Ἑρμῇ τῷ Κυλληνίῳ τούτων μὲν ἀπὸ οὐδενός, θύου δὲ πεποιημένον τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστιν, ὀκτὼ δὲ εἶναι ποδῶν2 μάλιστα αὐτὸ εἰκάζομεν.
For men in ancient times, as far as we also have been able to learn, these were the materials from which they made their wooden images: ebony, cypress, cedars, oak-woods, yew, and lotus-wood; but for Cyllenian Hermes, the image is made of none of these, but of thuya wood, and we estimate it to be about eight feet tall.
παρέχεται δὲ καὶ θαῦμα τοιόνδε ἡ Κυλλήνη· κόσσυφοι γὰρ οἱ ὄρνιθες ὁλόλευκοί εἰσιν ἐν αὐτῇ· οἱ δὲ ὑπὸ Βοιωτῶν καλούμενοι γένος ἄλλο πού τί εἰσιν ὀρνίθων, οὐκ ᾠδικόν. ἀετοὺς μὲν οὖν ὀνομαζομένους κυκνίας μάλιστα ἐοικότας κύκνῳ λευκότητα οἶδα ἐν Σιπύλῳ θεασάμενος3 περὶ λίμνην καλουμένην Ταντάλου· ὗς δὲ ἀγρίους λευκοὺς καὶ ἄρκτους τῶν Θρᾳκίων λευκὰς ἤδη που καὶ ἄνδρες ἐκτήσαντο ἰδιῶται·
And Cyllene also presents a marvel of this kind: for the blackbirds in it are entirely white; and those called by the Boeotians are, I suppose, some other kind of birds, not songbirds. Now, I know that I have seen at Sipylus, around the lake called Tantalus’s, eagles called “swan-like” which are extremely like a swan in whiteness; and as for Thracian white bears and white wild boars, private individuals have before now owned them, I suppose;
λαγῲ δὲ καὶ ἔλαφοι, τὸ μὲν Λιβυκὸν θρέμμα οἱ λαγῴ εἰσιν οἱ λευκοί, ἐλάφους δὲ ἐν Ῥώμῃ λευκὰς εἶδόν τε καὶ ἰδὼν θαῦμα ἐποιησάμην, ὁπόθεν δὲ ἢ τῶν ἠπείρων οὖσαι ἢ νησιώτιδες ἐκομίσθησαν, οὐκ ἐπῆλθεν ἐρέσθαι μοι. τάδε μὲν ἡμῖν λελέχθω τῶν ἐν Κυλλήνῃ κοσσύφων ἕνεκα, ὡς μὴ τοῖς ῥηθεῖσιν ἐς τὴν χρόαν αὐτῶν ἀπιστοίη μηδείς·
and as for hares and deer: white hares are the Libyan breed, and I both saw white deer in Rome and, seeing them, wondered, but from where they were brought, whether being from the continents or islanders, it did not occur to me to ask. Let these things have been said by us for the sake of the blackbirds in Cyllene, so that no one may disbelieve what has been said about their color;
ἔχεται δὲ ἄλλο ὄρος Κυλλήνης Χελυδόρεα, ἔνθα εὑρὼν χελώνην Ἑρμῆς ἐκδεῖραι τὸ θηρίον καὶ ἀπʼ αὐτῆς λέγεται ποιήσασθαι λύραν. ἐνταῦθα Φενεάταις καὶ Πελληνεῦσιν ὅροι τῆς γῆς εἰσι, καὶ τοῦ ὄρους τῶν Χελυδορέων οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ τὸ πλέον νέμονται.
and adjoining Cyllene is another mountain, Chelydorea, where Hermes, having found a tortoise, is said to have flayed the beast and made a lyre from it. There are the boundaries of the land for the Pheneatians and the Pelleneans, and the Achaeans possess the greater part of the mountain of Chelydorea.
ἐκ Φενεοῦ δὲ ἰόντι4 ἐπὶ ἑσπέρας καὶ ἡλίου δυσμῶν ἡ μὲν ἀριστερὰ τῶν ὁδῶν ἐς πόλιν ἄγει Κλείτορα, ἐν δεξιᾷ δὲ ἐπὶ Νώνακριν καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς Στυγός. τὸ μὲν δὴ ἀρχαῖον ἡ Νώνακρις πόλισμα ἦν Ἀρκάδων καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Λυκάονος γυναικὸς τὸ ὄνομα εἰλήφει· τὰ δὲ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἐρείπια ἦν, οὐδὲ τούτων τὰ πολλὰ ἔτι δῆλα. τῶν δὲ ἐρειπίων οὐ πόρρω κρημνός ἐστιν ὑψηλός, οὐχ ἕτερον δʼ ἐς τοσοῦτον ἀνήκοντα ὕψους οἶδα· καὶ ὕδωρ κατὰ τοῦ κρημνοῦ στάζει, καλοῦσι δὲ Ἕλληνες αὐτὸ ὕδωρ Στυγός.
For one going from Pheneus towards the evening and the setting of the sun, the left of the roads leads to the city of Cleitor, and on the right to Nonacris and the water of the Styx. In ancient times indeed, Nonacris was a small town of the Arcadians and had received its name from the wife of Lycaon; but in our time it was ruins, and not even most of these are still visible. And not far from the ruins is a high cliff—and I know of no other rising to such a height —and water trickles down the cliff, and the Greeks call it the water of the Styx.
- 8.17.1δῆλα δέ ἐστιν
The neuter plural adjective δῆλα is used impersonally like δῆλόν ἐστιν, introducing the following subject clause (ὄνομα καὶ ἡ ἐπίκλησις... γεγενημένη) without ὅτι.
- 8.17.2ὀκτὼ δὲ εἶναι ποδῶν
ὀκτὼ ποδῶν is a genitive of measure. The infinitive εἶναι acts as the complement of εἰκάζομεν ('we estimate'), with its subject accusative omitted because it refers back to the image (αὐτό) in the previous clause.
- 8.17.3οἶδα ἐν Σιπύλῳ θεασάμενος
The verb of knowing οἶδα takes a supplementary participle (here the nominative θεασάμενος) instead of an infinitive to express a factual statement in indirect discourse: 'I know that I saw at Sipylus...', meaning 'I have indeed seen...'.
- 8.17.6ἰόντι
The dative present participle ἰόντι is a 'dative of reference' (dative of the journeying person) common in geographical descriptions, setting the point of view: 'for one going (from Pheneus)...'.