§1.33.1ταύτην δὲ Ἀρκάδες μυθολογοῦσι Πάλλαντος εἶναι θυγατέρα τοῦ Λυκάονος· τιμὰς δὲ παρʼ ἀνθρώπων ἃς ἔχει νῦν Ἀθηνᾶς βουλήσει λαβεῖν, γενομένην τῆς θεοῦ σύντροφον.
And the Arcadians fabulously relate that she was the daughter of Pallas, the son of Lycaon; and that she received the honors which she now has from men by the will of Athena, having become the companion of the goddess.
δοθῆναι γὰρ εὐθὺς ἀπὸ γονῆς τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν Πάλλαντι ὑπὸ Διὸς καὶ παρʼ ἐκείνῳ τέως εἰς ὥραν ἀφίκετο τραφῆναι.
For immediately upon her birth, Athena was given by Zeus to Pallas, and was brought up in his house until she grew up.
ἱδρύσαντο δὲ καὶ Δήμητρος ἱερὸν καὶ τὰς θυσίας αὐτῇ διὰ γυναικῶν τε καὶ νηφαλίους ἔθυσαν, ὡς Ἕλλησι νόμος, §1.33.2ὧν οὐδὲν ὁ καθʼ ἡμᾶς ἤλλαξε χρόνος.
And they also established a sanctuary of Demeter, and offered sacrifices to her by means of women and without wine, as is the custom among the Greeks, none of which our time has changed.
ἀπέδειξαν δὲ καὶ Ποσειδῶνι τέμενος Ἱππίῳ καὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν Ἱπποκράτεια μὲν ὑπʼ Ἀρκάδων, Κωνσουάλια δὲ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων λεγόμενα κατεστήσαντο, ἐν ᾗ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἐξ ἔθους ἐλινύουσιν ἔργων ἵπποι καὶ ὀρεῖς καὶ στέφονται τὰς κεφαλὰς ἄνθεσι.
And they also dedicated a precinct to Poseidon Hippios, and established the festival called Hippocrateia by the Arcadians, but Consualia by the Romans, in which, among the Romans, by custom, horses and mules rest from labors and have their heads crowned with flowers.
§1.33.3πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα τεμένη καὶ βωμοὺς καὶ βρέτη θεῶν καθωσίωσαν, ἁγισμούς τε καὶ θυσίας κατεστήσαντο πατρίους, αἳ μέχρι τῶν κατʼ ἐμὲ χρόνων τὸν αὐτὸν ἐγίνοντο τρόπον.
They also consecrated many other precincts, altars, and wooden statues of the gods, and established ancestral purifications and sacrifices, which up to my times were performed in the same manner.
οὐ θαυμάσαιμι δʼ ἂν εἰ καὶ παρεῖνταί τινες διαφυγοῦσαι τὴν τῶν ἐπιγινομένων μνήμην ὑπὸ τοῦ πάνυ ἀρχαίου· ἀλλʼ ἀποχρῶσί γε αἱ νῦν ἔτι γινόμεναι τεκμήρια εἶναι τῶν Ἀρκαδικῶν ποτε νομίμων· λεχθήσεται δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐν ἑτέροις.
And I should not wonder if some have been omitted, having escaped the memory of succeeding generations because of their great antiquity; but those which still take place now are sufficient to be proofs of what were once Arcadian customs; and more will be said about them in other places.
§1.33.4λέγονται δὲ καὶ γραμμάτων Ἑλληνικῶν χρῆσιν εἰς Ἰταλίαν πρῶτοι διακομίσαι νεωστὶ φανεῖσαν Ἀρκάδες καὶ μουσικὴν τὴν διʼ ὀργάνων, ἃ δὴ λύραι τε καὶ τρίγωνα καὶ αὐλοὶ καλοῦνται, τῶν προτέρων ὅτι μὴ σύριγξι ποιμενικαῖς οὐδενὶ ἄλλῳ μουσικῆς τεχνήματι χρωμένων, νόμους τε θέσθαι καὶ τὴν δίαιταν ἐκ τοῦ θηριώδους ἐπὶ πλεῖστον εἰς ἡμερότητα μεταγαγεῖν τέχνας τε καὶ ἐπιτηδεύματα καὶ ἄλλα πολλά τινα ὠφελήματα εἰς τὸ κοινὸν καταθεῖναι, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα πολλῆς ἐπιμελείας τυγχάνειν πρὸς τῶν ὑποδεξαμένων.
The Arcadians are also said to have been the first to bring into Italy the use of Greek letters, which had recently appeared, and instrumental music, which indeed are called lyres, trigons, and flutes—since the former inhabitants used no other musical instrument except shepherd's pipes—and to have established laws and to have transformed their lifestyle from a beastly state for the most part into gentleness, and to have introduced arts and practices and many other useful things for the common good, and because of these things to have received great care from those who received them.
§1.33.5τοῦτο δεύτερον ἔθνος Ἑλληνικὸν μετὰ Πελασγοὺς ἀφικόμενον εἰς Ἰταλίαν κοινὴν ἔσχε μετὰ τὴν τῶν Ἀβοριγίνων οἴκησιν ἐν τῷ κρατίστῳ τῆς Ῥώμης ἱδρυσάμενον χωρίῳ.
This was the second Greek nation to arrive in Italy after the Pelasgians, and it had a common habitation after that of the Aborigines, having settled in the best part of Rome.