§8.3.31Διωνομάσθη δὲ ἡ Πισᾶτις τὸ μὲν πρῶτον διὰ τοὺς ἡγεμόνας δυνηθέντας πλεῖστον, Οἰνόμαόν τε καὶ Πέλοπα τὸν ἐκεῖνον διαδεξάμενον καὶ τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ πολλοὺς γενομένους· καὶ ὁ Σαλμωνεὺς δʼ ἐνταῦθα βασιλεῦσαι λέγεται· εἰς γοῦν ὀκτὼ πόλεις μεριζομένης τῆς Πισάτιδος, μία τούτων λέγεται καὶ ἡ Σαλμώνη.
The territory of Pisatis became famous at first because of its leaders who were most powerful, namely Oenomaus and Pelops who succeeded him, and his many children; and Salmoneus too is said to have reigned here; at any rate, when Pisatis was divided into eight cities, one of these is also said to be Salmone.
διὰ ταῦτά τε δὴ καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τὸ Ὀλυμπίασι διατεθρύληται σφόδρα ἡ χώρα.
Because of these things and the temple at Olympia, the country has been very much talked about.
δεῖ δὲ τῶν παλαιῶν ἱστοριῶν ἀκούειν οὕτως ὡς μὴ ὁμολογουμένων σφόδρα· οἱ γὰρ νεώτεροι πολλὰ καινίζουσιν, ὥστε καὶ τἀναντία λέγειν, οἷον τὸν μὲν Αὐγέαν τῆς Πισάτιδος ἄρξαι τὸν δʼ Οἰνόμαον καὶ τὸν Σαλμωνέα τῆς Ἠλείας· ἔνιοι δʼ εἰς ταὐτὸ συνάγουσι τὰ ἔθνη.
But one must listen to the ancient histories in such a way as they are not entirely agreed upon; for more recent writers introduce many innovations, so as even to say the opposite, for example, that Augeas ruled Pisatis, and Oenomaus and Salmoneus ruled Elis; and some bring the tribes together into the same entity.
δεῖ δὲ τοῖς ὁμολογουμένοις ὡς ἐπὶ πολὺ ἀκολουθεῖν, ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ τοὔνομα τὴν Πισᾶτιν ἐτυμολογοῦσιν ὁμοίως· οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἀπὸ Πίσης ὁμωνύμου τῇ κρήνῃ πόλεως, τὴν δὲ κρήνην Πῖσαν εἰρῆσθαι, οἷον πίστραν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ ποτίστρα· τὴν δὲ πόλιν ἱδρυμένην ἐφʼ ὕψους δεικνύουσι μεταξὺ δυεῖν ὀροῖν, Ὄσσης καὶ Ὀλύμπου, ὁμωνύμων τοῖς ἐν Θετταλίᾳ.
But one must follow what is generally agreed upon for the most part, since not even the name of Pisatis is etymologized in the same way; for some derive it from the city of Pisa, homonymous with the spring, and say that the spring was called Pisa, like 'pistra', which means a watering-place; and they point out the city as situated on high ground between two mountains, Ossa and Olympus, homonymous with those in Thessaly.
τινὲς δὲ πόλιν μὲν οὐδεμίαν γεγονέναι Πῖσαν φασίν (εἶναι γὰρ ἂν μίαν τῶν ὀκτώ), κρήνην δὲ μόνην, ἣν νῦν καλεῖσθαι Βῖσαν, Κικυσίου πλησίον πόλεως μεγίστης τῶν ὀκτώ· Στησίχορον δὲ καλεῖν πόλιν τὴν χώραν Πῖσαν λεγομένην, ὡς ὁ ποιητὴς τὴν Λέσβον Μάκαρος πόλιν.
But some say that no city of Pisa ever existed (for it would have been one of the eight), but only a spring, which is now called Bisa, near Cicysium, the largest of the eight cities; and they say that Stesichorus calls the country that is named Pisa a 'city', just as the poet calls Lesbos the 'city of Macar'.
Εὐριπίδης δʼ ἐν Ἴωνι
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Εὔβοιʼ Ἀθήναις ἐστί τις γείτων πόλις
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καὶ ἐν Ῥαδαμάνθυι
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οἳ γῆν ἔχουσʼ Εὐβοΐδα πρόσχωρον πόλιν· "
Σοφοκλῆς δʼ ἐν Μυσοῖς
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Ἀσία μὲν ἡ σύμπασα κλῄζεται, ξένε,
πόλις δὲ Μυσῶν Μυσία προσήγορος. "
And Euripides in his Ion says: ' Euboea is a certain neighboring city to Athens, ' and in his Rhadamanthys: ' Who hold the Euboean land, a neighboring city; ' and Sophocles in his Mysoi: ' The whole of Asia indeed is so called, stranger, but the city of the Mysians is called Mysia.
§8.3.32ἡ δὲ Σαλμώνη πλησίον ἐστὶ τῆς ὁμωνύμου κρήνης ἐξ ἧς ῥεῖ ὁ Ἐνιπεύς· ἐμβάλλει δʼ εἰς τὸν Ἀλφειόν.
' Salmone is near the homonymous spring from which the Enipeus flows; and it empties into the Alpheius.
τούτου δʼ ἐρασθῆναι τὴν Τυρώ φασιν
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ἣ ποταμοῦ ἠράσσατʼ Ἐνιπῆος θείοιο.
And they say that Tyro fell in love with this river: ' Who fell in love with the river, divine Enipeus.
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ἐνταῦθα γὰρ βασιλεῦσαι τὸν πατέρα αὐτῆς τὸν Σαλμωνέα, καθάπερ καὶ Εὐριπίδης ἐν Αἰόλῳ φησί.
' For here her father Salmoneus reigned, just as Euripides also says in his Aeolus.
ἐγγὺς δὲ τῆς Σαλμώνης Ἡράκλεια, καὶ αὕτη μία τῶν ὀκτώ, διέχουσα περὶ τετταράκοντα σταδίους τῆς Ὀλυμπίας, κειμένη δὲ παρὰ τὸν Κυθήριον ποταμόν, οὗ τὸ τῶν Ἰωνιάδων νυμφῶν ἱερὸν τῶν πεπιστευμένων θεραπεύειν νόσους τοῖς ὕδασι.
And near Salmone is Heracleia, and this too is one of the eight, distant about forty stadia from Olympia, situated by the Cytherius river, where is the temple of the Ioniades nymphs, who are believed to cure diseases with their waters.
παρὰ δὲ τὴν Ὀλυμπίαν ἐστὶ καὶ ἡ Ἄρπινα, καὶ αὕτη τῶν ὀκτώ, διʼ ἧς ῥεῖ ποταμὸς Παρθενίας ὡς εἰς Ἡραίαν ἰόντων· αὐτοῦ δʼ ἔστι καὶ τὸ Κικύσιον τῶν ὀκτὼ καὶ τὸ Δυσπόντιον κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐξ Ἤλιδος εἰς Ὀλυμπίαν ἐν πεδίῳ κείμενον· ἐξελείφθη δέ, καὶ ἀπῆραν οἱ πλείους εἰς Ἐπίδαμνον καὶ Ἀπολλωνίαν· καὶ ἡ Φολόη δʼ ὑπέρκειται τῆς Ὀλυμπίας ἐγγυτάτω, ὄρος Ἀρκαδικόν, ὥστε τὰς ὑπωρείας τῆς Πισάτιδος εἶναι.
And near Olympia is also Arpina, and this too is of the eight, through which flows the river Parthenias as one goes towards Heraea; and there also is Cicysium, one of the eight, and Dyspontium, situated in a plain along the road from Elis to Olympia; but it was abandoned, and most of its people removed to Epidamnus and Apollonia; and Pholoe too lies just above Olympia, being an Arcadian mountain, so that its foothills are of Pisatis.
καὶ πᾶσα δʼ ἡ Πισᾶτις καὶ τῆς Τριφυλίας τὰ πλεῖστα ὁμορεῖ τῇ Ἀρκαδίᾳ· διὰ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ Ἀρκαδικὰ εἶναι δοκεῖ τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν Πυλιακῶν ἐν καταλόγῳ φραζομένων χωρίων· οὐ μέντοι φασὶν οἱ ἔμπειροι· τὸν γὰρ Ἐρύμανθον εἶναι τὸν ὁρίζοντα τὴν Ἀρκαδίαν τῶν εἰς Ἀλφειὸν ἐμπιπτόντων ποταμῶν, ἔξω δʼ ἐκείνου τὰ χωρία ἱδρῦσθαι ταῦτα.
And the whole of Pisatis and most of Triphylia border on Arcadia; and for this reason, most of the Pylian places mentioned in the Catalogue seem to be Arcadian; however, those who are experienced say otherwise; for they say that the Erymanthus is the river that bounds Arcadia among those that empty into the Alpheius, and that these places are situated outside of it.