§10.2.21μεταξὺ δὲ Λευκάδος καὶ τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου λιμνοθάλαττά ἐστι Μυρτούντιον λεγομένη.
Between Leucas and the Ambracian Gulf is a lagoon called Myrtuntium.
ἀπὸ δὲ Λευκάδος ἑξῆς Πάλαιρος καὶ Ἀλυζία τῆς Ἀκαρνανίας εἰσὶ πόλεις, ὧν ἡ Ἀλυζία πεντεκαίδεκα ἀπὸ θαλάττης διέχει σταδίους, καθʼ ἥν ἐστι λιμὴν Ἡρακλέους ἱερὸς καὶ τέμενος, ἐξ οὗ τοὺς Ἡρακλέους ἄθλους, ἔργα Λυσίππου, μετήνεγκεν εἰς Ῥώμην τῶν ἡγεμόνων τις, παρὰ τόπον κειμένους διὰ τὴν ἐρημίαν.
Next after Leucas are Palaerus and Alyzia, cities of Acarnania, of which Alyzia is fifteen stadia distant from the sea; and near it is the sacred harbor and temple of Heracles, from which a certain Roman leader carried off the Labours of Heracles, works of Lysippus, which were situated out of place because of the desolation of the site, to Rome.
εἶτα ἄκρα Κριθώτη καὶ Ἐχινάδες καὶ πόλις Ἀστακός, ὁμώνυμος τῇ περὶ Νικομήδειαν καὶ τὸν Ἀστακηνὸν κόλπον (καὶ ἡ Κριθώτη δʼ ὁμώνυμος πολίχνη τῶν ἐν τῇ Θρᾳκίᾳ Χερρονήσῳ)· πάντα δʼ εὐλίμενα τὰ μεταξύ· εἶτʼ Οἰνιάδαι καὶ ὁ Ἀχελῶος· εἶτα λίμνη τῶν Οἰνιαδῶν Μελίτη καλουμένη, μῆκος μὲν ἔχουσα τριάκοντα σταδίων πλάτος δὲ εἴκοσι, καὶ ἄλλη Κυνία διπλασία ταύτης καὶ μῆκος καὶ πλάτος, τρίτη δʼ Οὐρία πολλῷ τούτων μικροτέρα· ἡ μὲν οὖν Κυνία καὶ ἐκδίδωσιν εἰς τὴν θάλατταν, αἱ λοιπαὶ δʼ ὑπέρκεινται ὅσον ἡμιστάδιον· εἶθʼ ὁ Εὔηνος, εἰς ὃν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀκτίου στάδιοι ἑξακόσιοι ἑβδομήκοντα· μετὰ δὲ τὸν Εὔηνον τὸ ὄρος ἡ Χαλκίς, ἣν Χαλκίαν εἴρηκεν Ἀρτεμίδωρος· εἶθʼ ἡ Πλευρών, εἶθʼ ἡ Ἁλίκυρνα κώμη, ἧς ὑπέρκειται Καλυδὼν ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ σταδίοις τριάκοντα· περὶ δὲ τὴν Καλυδῶνά ἐστι τὸ τοῦ Λαφρίου Ἀπόλλωνος ἱερόν· εἶθʼ ὁ Ταφιασσὸς τὸ ὄρος, εἶτα Μακυνία πόλις, εἶτα Μολύκρεια καὶ πλησίον τὸ Ἀντίρριον τὸ τῆς Αἰτωλίας ὅριον καὶ τῆς Λοκρίδος, εἰς ὃ ἀπὸ τοῦ Εὐήνου στάδιοι περὶ ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν.
Then come the promontory Crithote and the Echinades and the city Astacus, homonymous with the city near Nicomedia and the Astacenian Gulf (and Crithote, too, is homonymous with the small town in the Thracian Chersonesus); and all the parts in between are well provided with harbors; then Oeniadae and the Achelous; then a lake of the Oeniadae called Melite, having a length of thirty stadia and a width of twenty; and another, Cynia, twice as large as this in both length and width; and a third, Uria, much smaller than these; now Cynia actually empties into the sea, while the others lie about half a stadium above it; then the Evenus, to which from Actium is six hundred and seventy stadia; and after the Evenus, Mount Chalcis, which Artemidorus has called Chalcia; then Pleuron, then the village Halicyrna, above which Calydon is situated in the interior at a distance of thirty stadia; and near Calydon is the temple of Apollo Laphrius; then Mount Taphiassus, then the city Macynia, then Molycreia; and near it is Antirrhium, the boundary of Aetolia and Locris, to which from the Evenus is about one hundred and twenty stadia.
Ἀρτεμίδωρος μὲν οὕτω περὶ τῆς εἴτε Χαλκίδος εἴτε Χαλκίας τοῦ ὄρους, μεταξὺ τοῦ Ἀχελώου καὶ τῆς Πλευρῶνος ἱδρύων αὐτήν, Ἀπολλόδωρος δέ, ὡς πρότερον εἶπον, ὑπὲρ τῆς Μολυκρείας καὶ τὴν Χαλκίδα καὶ τὸν Ταφιασσόν· καὶ τὴν δὲ Καλυδῶνα μεταξὺ ἱδρῦσθαί φησι τῆς τε Πλευρῶνος καὶ τῆς Χαλκίδος· εἰ μὴ ἄρα ἕτερον θετέον τὸ πρὸς Πλευρῶνι ὄρος Χαλκίαν καλούμενον, ἕτερον δὲ τὴν Χαλκίδα τὴν πρὸς Μολυκρείᾳ.
Artemidorus, then, speaks thus about Mount Chalcis or Chalcia, locating it between the Achelous and Pleuron; but Apollodorus, as I said before, places both Chalcis and Taphiassus above Molycreia; and he says that Calydon also is situated between Pleuron and Chalcis; unless indeed one must assume that the mountain near Pleuron called Chalcia is one, and Mount Chalcis near Molycreia is another.
ἔστι δέ τις καὶ πρὸς τῇ Καλυδῶνι λίμνη μεγάλη καὶ εὔοψος, ἣν ἔχουσιν οἱ ἐν Πάτραις Ῥωμαῖοι.
And there is also a large lake rich in fish near Calydon, which is held by the Romans living in Patrae.
§10.2.22τῆς δὲ μεσογαίας κατὰ μὲν τὴν Ἀκαρνανίαν Ἐρυσιχαίους τινάς φησιν Ἀπολλόδωρος λέγεσθαι, ὧν Ἀλκμὰν μέμνηται
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οὐδʼ Ἐρυσιχαῖος, οὐδὲ ποιμήν,
ἀλλὰ Σαρδίων ἀπʼ ἀκρᾶν. "
κατὰ δὲ τὴν Αἰτωλίαν ἦν Ὤλενος, ἧς ἐν τῷ Αἰτωλικῷ καταλόγῳ μέμνηται Ὅμηρος, ἴχνη δʼ αὐτῆς λείπεται μόνον ἐγγὺς τῆς Πλευρῶνος ὑπὸ τῷ Ἀρακύνθῳ· ἦν δὲ καὶ Λυσιμάχεια πλησίον, ἠφανισμένη καὶ αὐτή, κειμένη πρὸς τῇ λίμνῃ τῇ νῦν μὲν Λυσιμαχείᾳ πρότερον δʼ Ὕδρᾳ, μεταξὺ Πλευρῶνος καὶ Ἀρσινόης πόλεως, ἣ κώμη μὲν ἦν πρότερον καλουμένη Κωνώπα, κτίσμα δʼ ὑπῆρξεν Ἀρσινόης τῆς Πτολεμαίου τοῦ δευτέρου γυναικὸς ἅμα καὶ ἀδελφῆς, εὐφυῶς ἐπικειμένη πως τῇ τοῦ Ἀχελώου διαβάσει· παραπλήσιον δέ τι καὶ ἡ Πυλήνη τῷ Ὠλένῳ πέπονθεν.
As for the interior, Apollodorus says that on the side of Acarnania certain people are called Erysichaeans, of whom Alcman makes mention: 'not an Erysichaean, nor a shepherd, but from the heights of Sardis.' And on the side of Aetolia was Olenus, of which Homer makes mention in the Aetolian catalogue, but of which only traces are left near Pleuron under Mount Aracynthus; and near it was also Lysimacheia, which has also disappeared, situated near the lake now called Lysimacheia but formerly Hydra, between Pleuron and the city Arsinoe, which latter was formerly a village called Conopa, but became a foundation of Arsinoe, who was both wife and sister of Ptolemy II, being advantageously situated somehow at the crossing of the Achelous; and Pylene has suffered a somewhat similar fate to Olenus.
ὅταν δὲ φῇ τὴν Καλυδῶνα αἰπεῖάν τε καὶ πετρήεσσαν, ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας δεκτέον· εἴρηται γὰρ ὅτι τὴν χώραν δίχα διελόντες τὴν μὲν ὀρεινὴν καὶ ἐπίκτητον τῇ Καλυδῶνι προσένειμαν, τὴν πεδιάδα δὲ τῇ Πλευρῶνι.
And when the poet calls Calydon 'steep and rocky,' this must be understood as referring to its territory; for it has been said that they divided the territory into two parts and assigned the mountainous and newly acquired part to Calydon, but the plain to Pleuron.
§10.2.23νυνὶ μὲν οὖν ἐκπεπόνηται καὶ ἀπηγόρευκεν ὑπὸ τῶν συνεχῶν πολέμων ἥ τʼ Ἀκαρνανία καὶ Αἰτωλοί, καθάπερ καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν· πλεῖστον μέντοι χρόνον συνέμειναν Αἰτωλοὶ μετὰ τῶν Ἀκαρνάνων πρός τε τοὺς Μακεδόνας καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους Ἕλληνας, ὕστατα δὲ καὶ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους περὶ τῆς αὐτονομίας ἀγωνιζόμενοι.
Now, indeed, both Acarnania and the Aetolians, like many of the other nations, have been exhausted and worn out by continuous wars; nevertheless, for a very long time the Aetolians, together with the Acarnanians, held out, struggling for their autonomy against both the Macedonians and the other Greeks, and lastly also against the Romans.
ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ Ὅμηρος αὐτῶν ἐπὶ πολὺ μέμνηται καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ποιηταί τε καὶ συγγραφεῖς, τὰ μὲν εὐσήμως τε καὶ ὁμολογουμένως, τὰ δʼ ἧττον γνωρίμως (καθάπερ τοῦτο καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἤδη λεχθεῖσι περὶ αὐτῶν ἀποδέδεικται), προσληπτέον καὶ τῶν παλαιοτέρων τινὰ τῶν ἀρχῆς ἐχόντων τάξιν ἢ διαπορουμένων.
Since, moreover, Homer and the other poets and historians make mention of them at great length, in some cases clearly and by common consent, in others less familiarly (just as this has been shown also in what has already been said about them), we must further add some of the more ancient matters, such as have the character of origins or are in dispute.