§14.1.22τὸν δὲ νεὼν τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος πρῶτος μὲν Χερσίφρων ἠρχιτεκτόνησεν, εἶτʼ ἄλλος ἐποίησε μείζω·
The temple of Artemis was first architecturally designed by Chersiphron, and then another made it larger.
ὡς δὲ τοῦτον Ἡρόστρατός τις ἐνέπρησεν, ἄλλον ἀμείνω κατεσκεύασαν συνενέγκαντες τὸν τῶν γυναικῶν κόσμον καὶ τὰς ἰδίας οὐσίας, διαθέμενοι δὲ καὶ τοὺς προτέρους κίονας· τούτων δὲ μαρτύριά ἐστι τὰ γενηθέντα τότε ψηφίσματα, ἅπερ ἀγνοοῦντά φησιν ὁ Ἀρτεμίδωρος τὸν Ταυρομενίτην Τίμαιον καὶ ἄλλως βάσκανον ὄντα καὶ συκοφάντην (διὸ καὶ Ἐπιτίμαιον κληθῆναι) λέγειν ὡς ἐκ τῶν Περσικῶν παρακαταθηκῶν ἐποιήσαντο τοῦ ἱεροῦ τὴν ἐπισκευήν· οὔτε δὲ ὑπάρξαι παρακαταθήκας τότε, εἴ τε ὑπῆρξαν, συνεμπεπρῆσθαι τῷ ναῷ· μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἔμπρησιν τῆς ὀροφῆς ἠφανισμένης, ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ τῷ σηκῷ τίνα ἂν ἐθελῆσαι παρακαταθήκην κειμένην ἔχειν;
But when a certain Herostratus set fire to it, they constructed another and better one, contributing the ornaments of the women and their own private possessions, and also disposing of the former columns; and the decrees passed at that time serve as evidence of these things. However, Artemidorus says that Timaeus of Tauromenium, being ignorant of these decrees and otherwise malicious and slanderous (for which reason he was also called Epitimaeus), asserts that they made the restoration of the temple from the Persian deposits; but neither did deposits exist at that time, and even if they had existed, they would have been burned along with the temple; and after the fire, when the roof was destroyed, who would have wished to have a deposit lying in an open-air sacred precinct?
Ἀλέξανδρον δὴ τοῖς Ἐφεσίοις ὑποσχέσθαι τὰ γεγονότα καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα ἀναλώματα, ἐφʼ ᾧ τε τὴν ἐπιγραφὴν αὐτὸν ἔχειν, τοὺς δὲ μὴ ἐθελῆσαι, πολὺ μᾶλλον οὐκ ἂν ἐθελήσαντας ἐξ ἱεροσυλίας καὶ ἀποστερήσεως φιλοδοξεῖν·
Furthermore, Alexander promised the Ephesians to pay both the past and future expenses on the condition that he should have the inscription, but they were unwilling, being much less willing to gain glory from sacrilege and deprivation.
ἐπαινεῖ τε τὸν εἰπόντα τῶν Ἐφεσίων πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, ὡς οὐ πρέποι θεῷ θεοῖς ἀναθήματα κατασκευάζειν.
Artemidorus praises the Ephesian who said to the king that it was not fitting for a god to dedicate offerings to gods.
§14.1.23μετὰ δὲ τὴν τοῦ νεὼ συντέλειαν, ὅν φησιν εἶναι Δεινοκράτους ἔργον (τοῦ δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν Ἀλεξανδρείας κτίσιν· τὸν δʼ αὐτὸν ὑποσχέσθαι Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τὸν Ἄθω διασκευάσειν εἰς αὐτόν, ὡσανεὶ ἐκ πρόχου τινὸς εἰς φιάλην καταχέοντα σπονδήν, ποιήσοντα πόλεις δύο, τὴν μὲν ἐκ δεξιῶν τοῦ ὄρους τὴν δʼ ἐν ἀριστερᾷ, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς ἑτέρας εἰς τὴν ἑτέραν ῥέοντα ποταμόν), μετὰ δʼ οὖν τὸν νεὼν τὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἀναθημάτων πλῆθος εὑρέσθαι τῇ ἐκτιμήσει τῶν δημιουργῶν, τὸν δὲ δὴ βωμὸν εἶναι τῶν Πραξιτέλους ἔργων ἅπαντα σχεδόν τι πλήρη.
After the completion of the temple, which he says is the work of Dinocrates (who was also the founder of Alexandria, and who promised Alexander that he would fashion Mount Athos into his likeness, represented as pouring a libation from a pitcher into a bowl, making two cities, one on the right of the mountain and the other on the left, with a river flowing from the one to the other)—after the temple, then, the multitude of other offerings was procured by the valuation of the craftsmen, and the altar was almost entirely full of the works of Praxiteles.
ἡμῖν δʼ ἐδείκνυτο καὶ τῶν Θράσωνός τινα, οὗπερ καὶ τὸ Ἑκατήσιόν ἐστι καὶ ἡ κηρίνη Πηνελόπη καὶ ἡ πρεσβῦτις ἡ Εὐρύκλεια.
There were also shown to us some works of Thrason, to whom belong the Hecatesium, the wax Penelope, and the old woman Eurycleia.
ἱερέας δʼ εὐνούχους εἶχον οὓς ἐκάλουν Μεγαβύζους, καὶ ἀλλαχόθεν μετιόντες ἀεί τινας ἀξίους τῆς τοιαύτης προστασίας, καὶ ἦγον ἐν τιμῇ μεγάλῃ· συνιερᾶσθαι δὲ τούτοις ἐχρῆν παρθένους.
They had eunuch priests whom they called Megabyzi, always fetching from elsewhere some who were worthy of such a prefecture, and they held them in great honor; and virgins had to serve as priests with them.
νυνὶ δὲ τὰ μὲν φυλάττεται τῶν νομίμων τὰ δʼ ἧττον, ἄσυλον δὲ μένει τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ νῦν καὶ πρότερον·
Now, some of the customs are preserved, but others less so; however, the temple remains a sanctuary of asylum both now and in former times.
τῆς δʼ ἀσυλίας τοὺς ὅρους ἀλλαγῆναι συνέβη πολλάκις, Ἀλεξάνδρου μὲν ἐπὶ στάδιον ἐκτείναντος, Μιθριδάτου δὲ τόξευμα ἀφέντος ἀπὸ τῆς γωνίας τοῦ κεράμου καὶ δόξαντος ὑπερβαλέσθαι μικρὰ τὸ στάδιον, Ἀντωνίου δὲ διπλασιάσαντος τοῦτο καὶ συμπεριλαβόντος τῇ ἀσυλίᾳ μέρος τι τῆς πόλεως· ἐφάνη δὲ τοῦτο βλαβερὸν καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς κακούργοις ποιοῦν τὴν πόλιν, ὥστʼ ἠκύρωσεν ὁ Σεβαστὸς Καῖσαρ.
But it happened that the boundaries of this asylum were changed many times; Alexander extended it to a stadium, Mithridates shot an arrow from the corner of the roof and was thought to have slightly exceeded the stadium, and Antony doubled this and included a part of the city within the asylum; but this appeared harmful and put the city at the mercy of criminals, so Augustus Caesar annulled it.
§14.1.24ἔχει δʼ ἡ πόλις καὶ νεώρια καὶ λιμένα· βραχύστομον δʼ ἐποίησαν οἱ ἀρχιτέκτονες, συνεξαπατηθέντες τῷ κελεύσαντι βασιλεῖ.
The city has also dockyards and a harbor; but the architects made the entrance narrow, being deceived along with the king who ordered it.
οὗτος δʼ ἦν Ἄτταλος ὁ φιλάδελφος· οἰηθεὶς γὰρ οὗτος βαθὺν τὸν εἴσπλουν ὁλκάσι μεγάλαις ἔσεσθαι καὶ αὐτὸν τὸν λιμένα τεναγώδη ὄντα πρότερον διὰ τὰς ἐκ τοῦ Καΰστρου προχώσεις, ἐὰν παραβληθῇ χῶμα τῷ στόματι πλατεῖ τελέως ὄντι, ἐκέλευσε γενέσθαι τὸ χῶμα.
This was Attalus Philadelphus; for he, thinking that the channel would be deep for large merchant vessels, and that the harbor itself, which was previously shoaly due to the alluvial deposits of the Cayster, would be cleared if a mole were thrown across the entrance, which was extremely wide, ordered the mole to be built.
συνέβη δὲ τοὐναντίον· ἐντὸς γὰρ ἡ χοῦς εἰργομένη τεναγίζειν μᾶλλον ἐποίησε τὸν λιμένα σύμπαντα μέχρι τοῦ στόματος· πρότερον δʼ ἱκανῶς αἱ πλημμυρίδες καὶ ἡ παλίρροια τοῦ πελάγους ἀφῄρει τὴν χοῦν καὶ ἀνέσπα πρὸς τὸ ἐκτός.
But the contrary happened; for the silt, being kept inside, made the whole harbor shallower as far as the mouth; whereas previously, the tides and the reflux of the sea sufficiently carried away the silt and drew it outside.
ὁ μὲν οὖν λιμὴν τοιοῦτος· ἡ δὲ πόλις τῇ πρὸς τὰ ἄλλα εὐκαιρίᾳ τῶν τόπων αὔξεται καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, ἐμπόριον οὖσα μέγιστον τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν τὴν ἐντὸς τοῦ Ταύρου.
The harbor, then, is of such a character; but the city, owing to the advantageous nature of the places in other respects, increases daily, being the greatest emporium of Asia within the Taurus.