§8.3.12μετὰ δὲ τὸν Χελωνάταν ὁ τῶν Πισατῶν ἐστιν αἰγιαλὸς πολύς, εἶτʼ ἄκρα Φειά· ἦν δὲ καὶ πολίχνη
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Φειᾶς πὰρ τείχεσσιν, Ἰαρδάνου ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα· "
ἔστι γὰρ καὶ ποτάμιον πλησίον.
After Chelonatas is the extensive seashore of the Pisatans, and then Cape Pheia; and there was also a small town: / "by the walls of Pheia, about the streams of Iardanos;" / for there is also a small river nearby.
ἔνιοι δʼ ἀρχὴν τῆς Πισάτιδος τὴν Φειάν φασι· πρόκειται δὲ καὶ ταύτης νησίον καὶ λιμήν, ἔνθεν εἰς Ὀλυμπίαν τὸ ἐγγυτάτω ἐκ θαλάττης εἰσὶ στάδιοι ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν.
And some say that Pheia is the beginning of the Pisatis; and in front of it lies a small island and a harbor, from which to Olympia by the shortest way from the sea is one hundred and twenty stades.
εἶτʼ ἄλλη ἄκρα εὐθὺς ἐπὶ πολὺ προὔχουσα ἐπὶ τὴν δύσιν, καθάπερ ὁ Χελωνάτας, ἀφʼ ἧς πάλιν ἐπὶ τὴν Κεφαλληνίαν στάδιοι ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν.
Then immediately another cape projecting far to the west, just like Chelonatas, from which again to Kephallenia is one hundred and twenty stades.
εἶθʼ ὁ Ἀλφειὸς ἐκδίδωσι, διέχων τοῦ Χελωνάτα σταδίους διακοσίους ὀγδοήκοντα, Ἀράξου δὲ πεντακοσίους τετταράκοντα πέντε.
Then the Alpheios empties, distant from Chelonatas two hundred and eighty stades, and from Araxos five hundred and forty-five.
ῥεῖ δʼ ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν τόπων ἐξ ὧν καὶ ὁ Εὐρώτας· καλεῖται δὲ Ἀσέα, κώμη τῆς Μεγαλοπολίτιδος, πλησίον ἀλλήλων ἔχουσα δύο πηγάς, ἐξ ὧν ῥέουσιν οἱ λεχθέντες ποταμοί· δύντες δʼ ὑπὸ γῆς ἐπὶ συχνοὺς σταδίους ἀνατέλλουσι πάλιν, εἶθʼ ὁ μὲν εἰς τὴν Λακωνικὴν ὁ δʼ εἰς τὴν Πισᾶτιν κατάγεται.
And it flows from the same places from which the Eurotas also flows; there is a village of the Megalopolitis called Asea, which has two springs near each other, from which flow the aforementioned rivers; and having sunk underground for many stades, they rise again, and then one of them is carried down into Laconica and the other into the Pisatis.
ὁ μὲν οὖν Εὐρώτας κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς Βλεμινάτιδος ἀναδείξας τὸ ῥεῖθρον, παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν Σπάρτην ῥυεὶς καὶ διεξιὼν αὐλῶνά τινα μακρὸν κατὰ τὸ Ἕλος, οὗ μέμνηται καὶ ὁ ποιητής, ἐκδίδωσι μεταξὺ Γυθείου τοῦ τῆς Σπάρτης ἐπινείου καὶ Ἀκραίων.
Now the Eurotas, having shown its stream at the beginning of Bleminatis, and flowing past Sparta itself and passing through a certain long valley along Helos, which the poet also mentions, empties between Gytheion, the seaport of Sparta, and Akraiai.
ὁ δʼ Ἀλφειὸς παραλαβὼν τόν τε Λάδωνα καὶ τὸν Ἐρύμανθον καὶ ἄλλους ἀσημοτέρους διὰ τῆς Φρίξης καὶ τῆς Πισάτιδος καὶ Τριφυλίας ἐνεχθεὶς παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν Ὀλυμπίαν ἐπὶ θάλατταν τὴν Σικελικὴν ἐκπίπτει μεταξὺ Φειᾶς τε καὶ Ἐπιταλίου.
But the Alpheios, having received both the Ladon and the Erymanthos and other more obscure rivers, and being carried through Phrixa and the Pisatis and Triphylia, past Olympia itself, falls into the Sicilian Sea between Pheia and Epitalion.
πρὸς δὲ τῇ ἐκβολῇ τὸ τῆς Ἀλφειωνίας Ἀρτέμιδος ἢ Ἀλφειούσης ἄλσος ἐστὶ (λέγεται γὰρ ἀμφοτέρως), ἀπέχον τῆς Ὀλυμπίας εἰς ὀγδοήκοντα σταδίους.
And near the outlet is the grove of Artemis Alpheionia or Alpheiousa (for it is called both ways), distant from Olympia about eighty stades.
ταύτῃ δὲ τῇ θεῷ καὶ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ κατʼ ἔτος συντελεῖται πανήγυρις, καθάπερ καὶ τῇ Ἐλαφίᾳ καὶ τῇ Δαφνίᾳ.
And to this goddess a festival is celebrated annually in Olympia also, just as to Elaphia and to Daphnia.
μεστὴ δʼ ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ πᾶσα ἀρτεμισίων τε καὶ ἀφροδισίων καὶ νυμφαίων ἐν ἄλσεσιν ἀνθέων ῳς τὸ πολὺ διὰ τὴν εὐυδρίαν, συχνὰ δὲ καὶ ἑρμεῖα ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς, ποσείδια δʼ ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀκταῖς.
And all the land is full of sanctuaries of Artemis, of Aphrodite, and of the nymphs, in groves which are mostly full of flowers because of the abundance of water, and there are many Hermae on the roads, and shrines of Poseidon on the shores.
ἐν δὲ τῷ τῆς Ἀλφειωνίας ἱερῷ γραφαὶ Κλεάνθους τε καὶ Ἀρήγοντος, ἀνδρῶν Κορινθίων, τοῦ μὲν Τροίας ἅλωσις καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς γοναί, τοῦ δʼ Ἄρτεμις ἀναφερομένη ἐπὶ γρυπός, σφόδρα εὐδόκιμοι.
And in the temple of Alpheionia are paintings by Kleanthes and Aregon, Corinthian men, of the former the Capture of Troy and the Birth of Athena, and of the latter Artemis being carried up on a griffin, which are highly celebrated.
§8.3.13εἶτα τὸ διεῖργον ὄρος τῆς Τριφυλίας τὴν Μακιστίαν ἀπὸ τῆς Πισάτιδος· εἶτʼ ἄλλος ποταμὸς Χαλκὶς καὶ κρήνη Κρουνοὶ καὶ κατοικία Χαλκίς, καὶ τὸ Σαμικὸν μετὰ ταῦτα, ὅπου τὸ μάλιστα τιμώμενον τοῦ Σαμίου Ποσειδῶνος ἱερόν· ἔστι δʼ ἄλσος ἀγριελαιῶν πλέων· ἐπεμελοῦντο δʼ αὐτοῦ Μακίστιοι· οὗτοι δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐκεχειρίαν ἐπήγγελλον, ἣν καλοῦσι Σάμιον· συντελοῦσι δʼ εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν πάντες Τριφύλιοι.
Then the mountain of Triphylia which separates Makistia from the Pisatis; then another river Chalkis and the spring Krounoi and the settlement Chalkis, and Samikon after these, where is the most honored temple of Samian Poseidon; and it is a grove full of wild olive trees; and the Makistians took care of it; and these also used to proclaim the armistice which they call Samian; and all the Triphylians contribute to the temple.