§10.5.5Ῥήναια δʼ ἔρημον νησίδιόν ἐστιν ἐν τέτταρσι τῆς Δήλου σταδίοις, ὅπου τὰ μνήματα τοῖς Δηλίοις ἐστίν.
Rheneia is a deserted islet four stadia from Delos, where the tombs of the Delians are.
οὐ γὰρ ἔξεστιν ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ Δήλῳ θάπτειν οὐδὲ καίειν νεκρόν.
For it is not permitted to bury or cremate a corpse on Delos itself.
οὐκ ἔξεστι δὲ οὐδὲ κύνα ἐν Δήλῳ τρέφειν.
Nor is it permitted to keep a dog on Delos.
ὠνομάζετο δὲ καὶ Ὀρτυγία πρότερον.
It was also formerly called Ortygia.
§10.5.6Κέως δὲ τετράπολις μὲν ὑπῆρξε, λείπονται δὲ δύο, ἥ τε Ἰουλὶς καὶ ἡ Καρθαία, εἰς ἃς συνεπολίσθησαν αἱ λοιπαί, ἡ μὲν Ποιήεσσα εἰς τὴν Καρθαίαν ἡ δὲ Κορησία εἰς τὴν Ἰουλίδα.
Ceos was once a tetrapy (four-city state), but two remain, Iulis and Carthaia, into which the others were consolidated: Poeëessa into Carthaia, and Coresia into Iulis.
ἐκ δὲ τῆς Ἰουλίδος ὅ τε Σιμωνίδης ἦν ὁ μελοποιὸς καὶ Βακχυλίδης ἀδελφιδοῦς ἐκείνου, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Ἐρασίστρατος ὁ ἰατρὸς καὶ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ περιπάτου φιλοσόφων Ἀρίστων ὁ τοῦ Βορυσθενίτου Βίωνος ζηλωτής.
From Iulis came Simonides the lyric poet, and Bacchylides his nephew, and after them Erasistratus the physician, and Ariston, one of the Peripatetic philosophers, a follower of Bion of Borysthenes.
παρὰ τούτοις δὲ δοκεῖ τεθῆναί ποτε νόμος, οὗ μέμνηται καὶ Μένανδρος
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καλὸν τὸ Κείων νόμιμόν ἐστι, Φανία· ὁ μὴ δυνάμενος ζῆν καλῶς οὐ ζῇ κακῶς.
Among them a law is thought to have been enacted once, which Menander also mentions: "The law of the Ceans is excellent, Phanias: he who cannot live well does not live basely.
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προσέταττε γάρ, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὁ νόμος τοὺς ὑπὲρ ἑξήκοντα ἔτη γεγονότας κωνειάζεσθαι καὶ τοῦ διαρκεῖν τοῖς ἄλλοις τὴν τροφήν·
"For, as it seems, the law commanded those who had passed sixty years of age to drink hemlock, so that the food might be sufficient for the others.
καὶ πολιορκουμένους δέ ποτε ὑπʼ Ἀθηναίων ψηφίσασθαί φασι τοὺς πρεσβυτάτους ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀποθανεῖν, ὁρισθέντος πλήθους ἐτῶν, τοὺς δὲ παύσασθαι πολιορκοῦντας.
And they say that when once besieged by the Athenians, the oldest among them voted that they should die, a certain limit of years having been set, and that the besiegers then ceased the siege.
κεῖται δʼ ἐν ὄρει τῆς θαλάττης διέχουσα ἡ πόλις ὅσον πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι σταδίους, ἐπίνειον δʼ ἐστὶν αὐτῆς τὸ χωρίον ἐν ᾧ ἵδρυτο ἡ Κορησία κατοικίαν οὐδὲ κώμης ἔχουσα.
The city is situated on a mountain about twenty-five stadia distant from the sea; its harbor-town is the place where the settlement of Coresia was established, having not even the size of a village.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ πρὸς τῇ Κορησίᾳ Σμινθαίου Ἀπόλλωνος ἱερὸν καὶ πρὸς Ποιηέσσῃ, μεταξὺ δὲ τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ τῶν τῆς Ποιηέσσης ἐρειπίων τὸ τῆς Νεδουσίας Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερόν, ἱδρυσαμένου Νέστορος κατὰ τὴν ἐκ Τροίας ἐπάνοδον.
Near Coresia is a temple of Smintheus Apollo, and another near Poeëessa; and between the temple and the ruins of Poeëessa is the temple of Nedusian Athena, founded by Nestor on his return from Troy.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἔλιξος ποταμὸς περὶ τὴν Κορησίαν.
There is also a river Elixos around Coresia.
§10.5.7μετὰ δὲ ταύτην Νάξος καὶ Ἄνδρος ἀξιόλογοι καὶ Πάρος· ἐντεῦθεν ἦν Ἀρχίλοχος ὁ ποιητής.
After this island, Naxos and Andros are noteworthy, as is Paros, whence came Archilochus the poet.
ὑπὸ δὲ Παρίων ἐκτίσθη Θάσος καὶ Πάριον ἐν τῇ Προποντίδι πόλις.
By the Parians were founded Thasos, and Parion, a city on the Propontis.
ἐν ταύτῃ μὲν οὖν ὁ βωμὸς λέγεται θέας ἄξιος, σταδιαίας ἔχων τὰς πλευράς· ἐν δὲ τῇ Πάρῳ ἡ Παρία λίθος λεγομένη ἀρίστη πρὸς τὴν μαρμαρογλυφίαν.
In this latter city, the altar is said to be worth seeing, having sides a stadium in length; and in Paros is the so-called Parian stone, which is excellent for marble-carving.
§10.5.8Σῦρος δʼ ἐστὶ μηκύνουσι τὴν πρώτην συλλαβήν, ἐξ ἧς Φερεκύδης ὁ Βάβυος ἦν· νεώτερος δʼ ἐστὶν ὁ Ἀθηναῖος ἐκείνου.
Syros is an island where they lengthen the first syllable, from which was Pherecydes the son of Babys; the Athenian of that name is later than he.
ταύτης δοκεῖ μνημονεύειν ὁ ποιητὴς Συρίην καλῶν
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νῆσός τις Συρίη κικλήσκεται
Ὀρτυγίης καθύπερθε. "
The poet seems to mention this island, calling it Syrie: "There is a certain island called Syrie, above Ortygia.
§10.5.9Μύκονος δʼ ἐστὶν ὑφʼ ᾗ μυθεύουσι κεῖσθαι τῶν γιγάντων τοὺς ὑστάτους ὑφʼ Ἡρακλέους καταλυθέντας, ἀφʼ ὧν ἡ παροιμία
πάνθʼ ὑπὸ μίαν Μύκονον
ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπὸ μίαν ἐπιγραφὴν ἀγόντων καὶ τὰ διηρτημένα τῇ φύσει.
"Mykonos is the island under which they mythologize that the last of the giants lie, destroyed by Heracles, from whom comes the proverb: "all under one Mykonos," applied to those who bring under one heading even things that are separated by nature.
καὶ τοὺς φαλακροὺς δέ τινες Μυκονίους καλοῦσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ τὸ πάθος τοῦτο ἐπιχωριάζειν τῇ νήσῳ.
And some call bald men Mykonians, because this condition is prevalent on the island.
§10.5.10Σέριφος δʼ ἐστὶν ἐν ᾗ τὰ περὶ τὸν Δίκτυν μεμύθευται τὸν ἀνελκύσαντα τὴν λάρνακα τοῖς δικτύοις τὴν περιέχουσαν τὸν Περσέα καὶ τὴν μητέρα Δανάην, καταπεποντωμένους ὑπʼ Ἀκρισίου τοῦ πατρὸς τῆς Δανάης·
Seriphos is the island where the myths about Dictys are located, who hauled up with his nets the chest containing Perseus and his mother Danaë, who had been cast into the sea by Acrisius, Danaë's father.
τραφῆναί τε γὰρ ἐνταῦθα τὸν Περσέα φασί, καὶ κομίσαντα τὴν τῆς Γοργόνος κεφαλήν, δείξαντα τοῖς Σεριφίοις ἀπολιθῶσαι πάντας· τοῦτο δὲ πρᾶξαι τιμωροῦντα τῇ μητρί, ὅτι αὐτὴν Πολυδέκτης ὁ βασιλεὺς ἄκουσαν ἄγεσθαι προείλετο πρὸς γάμον συμπραττόντων ἐκείνων.
For they say that Perseus was brought up there, and that having brought back the Gorgon's head, he showed it to the Seriphians and turned them all to stone; and he did this to avenge his mother, because King Polydectes chose to lead her to marriage against her will, with the cooperation of those people.
οὕτω δʼ ἐστὶ πετρώδης ἡ νῆσος ὥστε ὑπὸ τῆς Γοργόνος τοῦτο παθεῖν αὐτήν φασιν οἱ κωμῳδοῦντες.
The island is so rocky that those who write comedies say that it suffered this fate from the Gorgon.
§10.5.11τῆνος δὲ πόλιν μὲν οὐ μεγάλην ἔχει, τὸ δʼ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος μέγα ἐν ἄλσει τῆς πόλεως ἔξω θέας ἄξιον, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἑστιατόρια πεποίηται μεγάλα, σημεῖον τοῦ συνέρχεσθαι πλῆθος ἱκανὸν τῶν συνθυόντων αὐτοῖς ἀστυγειτόνων τὰ Ποσειδώνια.
Tenos has a city that is not large, but the temple of Poseidon, outside the city in a grove, is large and worth seeing, in which great banquet-halls have been built, a sign of the gathering of a sufficient multitude of those who sacrifice with them from neighboring towns at the Poseidonia.
§10.5.12ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἀμοργὸς τῶν Σποράδων, ὅθεν ἦν Σιμωνίδης ὁ τῶν ἰάμβων ποιητής, καὶ Λέβινθος καὶ Λέρος
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καὶ τόδε Φωκυλίδου· Λέριοι κακοί, οὐχ ὁ μὲν ὃς δʼ οὔ,
πάντες, πλὴν Προκλέους, καὶ Προκλέης Λέριος.
There is also Amorgos, one of the Sporades, whence came Simonides the iambic poet, and Lebinthos, and Leros: "And this also is of Phocylides: the Lerians are bad, not one so and another not, all, except Procles, and Procles is a Lerian.
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διεβέβληντο γὰρ ὡς κακοήθεις οἱ ἐνθένδε ἄνθρωποι.
"For the people from there were slandered as being ill-natured.