§8.6.12Ἑρμιόνη δʼ ἐστὶ τῶν οὐκ ἀσήμων πόλεων, ἧς τὴν παραλίαν ἔχουσιν Ἁλιεῖς λεγόμενοι θαλαττουργοί τινες ἄνδρες.
Hermione is one of the not undistinguished cities, whose coastal region is held by the so-called Halieis, certain men who make their living from the sea.
παρʼ Ἑρμιονεῦσι δὲ τεθρύληται τὴν εἰς Ἅιδου κατάβασιν σύντομον εἶναι· διόπερ οὐκ ἐντιθέασιν ἐνταῦθα τοῖς νεκροῖς ναῦλον.
And among the Hermionians it is rumored that the descent to Hades is short; wherefore they do not place passage-money in the mouths of the dead there.
§8.6.13Δρυόπων δʼ οἰκητήριόν φασι καὶ τὴν Ἀσίνην, εἴτʼ ἐκ τῶν περὶ Σπερχειὸν τόπων ὄντας αὐτοὺς Δρύοπος τοῦ Ἀρκάδος κατοικίσαντος ἐνταῦθα, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης φησίν, εἴθʼ Ἡρακλέους ἐκ τῆς περὶ τὸν Παρνασσὸν Δωρίδος ἐξελάσαντος αὐτούς.
And they say that Asine also was a dwelling place of the Dryopians, whether because, as Aristotle says, Dryops of Arcadia settled them there when they were from the regions around the Spercheius, or because Heracles drove them out of the region of Doris near Parnassus.
τὸ δὲ Σκύλλαιον τὸ ἐν Ἑρμιόνῃ ὠνομάσθαι φασὶν ἀπὸ Σκύλλης τῆς Νίσου θυγατρός, ἣν ἐξ ἔρωτος προδοῦσαν Μίνῳ τὴν Νίσαιαν καταποντωθῆναί φασιν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, δεῦρο δʼ ἐκκυμανθεῖσαν ταφῆς τυχεῖν.
And they say that Scyllaeum in Hermione was named after Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, who, they say, having betrayed Nisaea to Minos out of love, was thrown into the sea by him, and having been washed ashore here by the waves, obtained burial.
ἠιόνες δὲ κώμη τις ἦν, ἣν ἐρημώσαντες Μυκηναῖοι ναύσταθμον ἐποίησαν, ἀφαν οὐδὲ ναύσταθμόν ἐστιν.
And Eionae was a certain village, which the Mycenaeans desolated and made into a naval station, but now it has vanished and not even the naval station exists.
§8.6.14Τροιζὴν δὲ ἱερά ἐστι Ποσειδῶνος, ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ Ποσειδωνία ποτὲ ἐλέγετο· ὑπέρκειται δὲ τῆς θαλάττης εἰς πεντεκαίδεκα σταδίους, οὐδʼ αὕτη ἄσημος πόλις.
Troezen is sacred to Poseidon, after whom it was also once called Poseidonia; and it lies fifteen stadia above the sea, being itself also a not undistinguished city.
πρόκειται δὲ τοῦ λιμένος αὐτῆς Πώγωνος τοὔνομα Καλαυρία νησίδιον ὅσον τριάκοντα σταδίων ἔχον τὸν κύκλον· ἐνταῦθα ἦν ἄσυλον Ποσειδῶνος ἱερόν, καί φασι τὸν θεὸν τοῦτον ἀλλάξασθαι πρὸς μὲν Λητὼ τὴν Καλαυρίαν ἀντιδόντα Δῆλον, πρὸς Ἀπόλλωνα δὲ Ταίναρον ἀντιδόντα Πυθώ.
And in front of its harbor, named Pogon, lies Calauria, a small island having a circumference of about thirty stadia; here there was an inviolable temple of Poseidon, and they say that this god made an exchange, giving Delos to Leto in return for Calauria, and Pytho to Apollo in return for Taenarum.
Ἔφορος δὲ καὶ τὸν χρησμὸν λέγει
"
ἶσόν τοι Δῆλόν τε Καλαύρειάν τε νέμεσθαι,
Πυθώ τʼ ἠγαθέην καὶ Ταίναρον ἠνεμόεντα. "
ἦν δὲ καὶ Ἀμφικτυονία τις περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦτο ἑπτὰ πόλεων αἳ μετεῖχον τῆς θυσίας· ἦσαν δὲ Ἑρμιὼν Ἐπίδαυρος Αἴγινα Ἀθῆναι Πρασιεῖς Ναυπλιεῖς Ὀρχομενὸς ὁ Μινύειος· ὑπὲρ μὲν οὖν Ναυπλιέων Ἀργεῖοι συνετέλουν, ὑπὲρ Πρασιέων δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι.
And Ephorus also mentions the oracle: 'It is equal for you to inhabit Delos and Calauria, and holy Pytho and windy Taenarum.' And there was also a certain Amphictyony around this temple of seven cities which shared in the sacrifice; and these were Hermione, Epidaurus, Aegina, Athens, Prasieis, Nauplieis, and Orchomenus of the Minyae; now on behalf of the Nauplians the Argives contributed, and on behalf of the Prasieis the Lacedaemonians.
οὕτω δʼ ἐπεκράτησεν ἡ τιμὴ τοῦ θεοῦ τούτου παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ὥστε καὶ Μακεδόνες δυναστεύοντες ἤδη μέχρι δεῦρο ἐφύλαττόν πως τὴν ἀσυλίαν, καὶ τοὺς ἱκέτας ἀποσπᾶν ᾐδοῦντο τοὺς εἰς Καλαυρίαν καταφυγόντας· ὅπου γε οὐδὲ Δημοσθένη ἐθάρρησεν Ἀρχίας βιάσασθαι στρατιώτας ἔχων, ᾧ προσετέτακτο ὑπὸ Ἀντιπάτρου ζῶντα ἀγαγεῖν κἀκεῖνον καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ῥητόρων ὃν ἂν εὕρῃ τῶν ἐν ταῖς αἰτίαις ὄντων ταῖς παραπλησίοις, ἀλλὰ πείθειν ἐπειρᾶτο· οὐ μὴν ἔπεισέ γε, ἀλλʼ ἔφθη φαρμάκῳ παραλύσας ἑαυτὸν τοῦ ζῆν.
And so much did the honor of this god prevail among the Greeks that even the Macedonians, when they were already dominant, guarded its inviolability in some way until this time, and shrunk from dragging away the suppliants who fled for refuge to Calauria; where indeed Archias did not dare to use violence even against Demosthenes, though he had soldiers and had been ordered by Antipater to bring him alive, as well as any other of the orators he might find who were under similar charges, but he tried to persuade him; however, he did not persuade him, but Demosthenes anticipated him by releasing himself from life with poison.
Τροιζὴν δὲ καὶ Πιτθεὺς οἱ Πέλοπος ὁρμηθέντες ἐκ τῆς Πισάτιδος ὁ μὲν τὴν πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἑαυτοῦ κατέλιπεν, ὁ δὲ Πιτθεὺς ἐβασίλευσεν ἐκεῖνον διαδεξάμενος.
And Troezen and Pittheus, the sons of Pelops, having set out from Pisatis, the former left the city named after himself, and the latter, Pittheus, reigned as king, succeeding him.
Ἄνθης δʼ ὁ προκατέχων πλεύσας Ἁλικαρνασὸν ἔκτισεν· ἐροῦμεν δʼ ἐν τοῖς Καρικοῖς ον καὶ τοῖς Τρωικοῖς.
And Anthes, who held it before, sailed away and founded Halicarnassus; but we shall speak of this in our account of the Carions and the Trojans.
§8.6.15ἡ Ἐπίδαυρος δʼ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἐπίταυρος· φησὶ δὲ Ἀριστοτέλης κατασχεῖν αὐτὴν Κᾶρας, ὥσπερ καὶ Ἑρμιόνα, τῶν δὲ Ἡρακλειδῶν κατελθόντων Ἴωνας αὐτοῖς συνοικῆσαι τοὺς ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς τετραπόλεως συνεπομένους εἰς Ἄργος.
And Epidaurus was called Epitaurus; and Aristotle says that Carers occupied it, just as they did Hermione, but when the Heracleidae returned, Ionians from the Attic Tetrapolis who accompanied them to Argos co-settled with them.
καὶ αὕτη δʼ οὐκ ἄσημος ἡ πόλις καὶ μάλιστα διὰ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ θεραπεύειν νόσους παντοδαπὰς πεπιστευμένου, καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν πλῆρες ἔχοντος ἀεὶ τῶν τε καμνόντων καὶ τῶν ἀνακειμένων πινάκων, ἐν οἷς ἀναγεγραμμέναι τυγχάνουσιν αἱ θεραπεῖαι, καθάπερ ἐν Κῷ τε καὶ Τρίκκῃ.
And this city too is not undistinguished, and especially because of the epiphany of Asclepius, who is believed to cure all kinds of diseases, and whose temple is always full of both the sick and the dedicated tablets on which the cures happen to be recorded, just as in Cos and Tricca.
κεῖται δʼ ἡ πόλις ἐν μυχῷ τοῦ Σαρωνικοῦ κόλπου, τὸν περίπλουν ἔχουσα σταδίων πεντεκαίδεκα, βλέπουσα πρὸς ἀνατολὰς θερινάς· περικλείεται δʼ ὄρεσιν ὑψηλοῖς μέχρι πρὸς τὴν θάλατταν, ὥστʼ ἐρυμνὴ κατεσκεύασται φυσικῶς πανταχόθεν.
And the city lies in the recess of the Saronic Gulf, having a coastal circuit of fifteen stadia, and facing the summer sunrise; and it is enclosed by high mountains as far as the sea, so that it is naturally fortified on all sides.
μεταξὺ δὲ Τροιζῆνος καὶ Ἐπιδαύρου χωρίον ἦν ἐρυμνὸν Μέθανα καὶ χερρόνησος ὁμώνυμος τούτῳ· παρὰ Θουκυδίδῃ δὲ ἔν τισιν ἀντιγράφοις Μεθώνη φέρεται ὁμωνύμως τῇ Μακεδονικῇ, ἐν ᾗ Φίλιππος ἐξεκόπη τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν πολιορκῶν· διόπερ οἴεταί τινας ἐξαπατηθέντας ὁ Σκήψιος Δημήτριος τὴν ἐν τῇ Τροιζηνίᾳ Μεθώνην ὑπονοεῖν, καθʼ ἧς ἀράσασθαι λέγεται τοὺς ὑπʼ Ἀγαμέμνονος πεμφθέντας ναυτολόγους μηδέποτε παύσασθαι τειχοδομεῖν, οὐ τούτων ἀλλὰ τῶν Μακεδόνων ἀνανευσάντων, ὥς φησι Θεόπομπος· τούτους δʼ οὐκ εἰκὸς ἐγγὺς ὄντας ἀπειθῆσαι.
And between Troezen and Epidaurus was a strong place, Methana, and a peninsula of the same name; but in Thucydides, in some manuscripts, it is written Methone, homonymous with the Macedonian city where Philip had his eye knocked out while besieging it; wherefore Demetrius of Scepsis thinks that some people, being deceived, suspect the Methone in the territory of Troezen, against which the enlistment officers sent by Agamemnon are said to have made a curse that they should never cease building walls, because not these but the Macedonians refused to comply, as Theopompus says; for it is not likely that those who were near would be disobedient.