§8.6.22ἀρχὴ δὲ τῆς παραλίας ἑκατέρας τῆς μὲν τὸ Λέχαιον τῆς δὲ Κεγχρεαὶ κώμη καὶ λιμὴν ἀπέχων τῆς πόλεως ὅσον ἑβδομήκοντα σταδίους· τούτῳ μὲν οὖν χρῶνται πρὸς τοὺς ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας πρὸς δὲ τοὺς ἐκ τῆς Ἰταλίας τῷ Λεχαίῳ.
The beginning of each of the two coasts is Lechaeum on the one hand, and Cenchreae, a village and harbor about seventy stadia distant from the city, on the other; consequently, they use this harbor for those from Asia, and Lechaeum for those from Italy.
τὸ δὲ Λέχαιον ὑποπέπτωκε τῇ πόλει κατοικίαν ἔχον οὐ πολλήν· σκέλη δὲ καθείλκυσται σταδίων περὶ δώδεκα ἑκατέρωθεν τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς ἐπὶ τὸ Λέχαιον.
Lechaeum lies below the city, having no large settlement; and 'legs' (long walls) of about twelve stadia have been drawn down on either side of the road leading to Lechaeum.
ἐντεῦθεν δὲ παρεκτείνουσα ἡ ᾐὼν μέχρι Παγῶν τῆς Μεγαρίδος κλύζεται μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ Κορινθιακοῦ κόλπου, κοίλη δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ ποιεῖ τὸν δίολκον πρὸς τὴν ἑτέραν ᾐόνα τὴν κατὰ Σχοινοῦντα πλησίον ὄντα τῶν Κεγχρεῶν.
From here the shore, extending as far as Pagae in Megaris, is washed by the Corinthian Gulf; it is concave and forms the diolcus towards the other shore near Schoenus, which is close to Cenchreae.
ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ τοῦ Λεχαίου καὶ Παγῶν τὸ τῆς Ἀκραίας μαντεῖον Ἥρας ὑπῆρχε τὸ παλαιόν, καὶ αἱ Ὀλμιαὶ τὸ ποιοῦν ἀκρωτήριον τὸν κόλπον ἐν ᾧ ἥ τε Οἰνόη καὶ Παγαί, τὸ μὲν τῶν Μεγαρέων φρούριον ἡ δὲ Οἰνόη τῶν Κορινθίων.
In the space between Lechaeum and Pagae there used to be the oracle of Hera Acraea in ancient times, and also Olmiae, the promontory which forms the gulf in which lie Oenoe and Pagae, the latter being a fortress of the Megarians, while Oenoe belongs to the Corinthians.
ἀπὸ τῶν Κεγχρεῶν ὁ Σχοινοῦς, καθʼ ὃν τὸ στενὸν τοῦ διόλκου· ἔπειθʼ ἡ Κρομμυωνία.
From Cenchreae comes Schoenus, where is the narrow part of the diolcus; then Crommyonia.
πρόκειται δὲ τῆς ᾐόνος ταύτης ὅ τε Σαρωνικὸς κόλπος καὶ ὁ Ἐλευσινιακός, τρόπον τινὰ ὁ αὐτὸς ὤν, συνεχὴς τῷ Ἑρμιονικῷ.
And in front of this shore lie both the Saronic Gulf and the Eleusinian Gulf, which is in a way the same and is continuous with the Hermionic Gulf.
ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ Ἰσθμῷ καὶ τὸ τοῦ Ἰσθμίου Ποσειδῶνος ἱερὸν ἄλσει πιτυώδει συνηρεφές, ὅπου τὸν ἀγῶνα τῶν Ἰσθμίων Κορίνθιοι συνετέλουν.
And on the Isthmus is also the temple of Isthmian Poseidon, shaded by a pine grove, where the Corinthians used to celebrate the Isthmian games.
ἡ δὲ Κρομμυὼν ἔστι κώμη τῆς Κορινθίας, πρότερον δὲ τῆς Μεγαρίδος, ἐν ᾗ μυθεύουσι τὰ περὶ τὴν Κρομμυωνίαν ὗν, ἣν μητέρα τοῦ Καλυδωνίου κάπρου φασί· καὶ τῶν Θησέως ἄθλων ἕνα τοῦτον παραδιδόασι τὴν τῆς ὑὸς ταύτης ἐξαίρεσιν.
Crommyon is a village of the Corinthian territory, but formerly of Megaris, where they place the myth of the Crommyonian sow, which they say was the mother of the Calydonian boar; and they hand down as one of the labors of Theseus the destruction of this sow.
καὶ ἡ Τενέα δʼ ἐστὶ κώμη τῆς Κορινθίας, ἐν ᾗ τοῦ Τενεάτου Ἀπόλλωνος ἱερόν· λέγεται δὲ καὶ Ἀρχίᾳ τῷ στείλαντι τὴν εἰς Συρακούσας ἀποικίαν τοὺς πλείστους τῶν ἐποίκων ἐντεῦθεν συνεπακολουθῆσαι, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα εὐθηνεῖν μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων τὴν κατοικίαν ταύτην, τὰ δʼ ὕστατα καὶ καθʼ αὑτοὺς πολιτεύεσθαι, προσθέσθαι τε τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις ἀποστάντας Κορινθίων καὶ κατασκαφείσης τῆς πόλεως συμμεῖναι.
Tenea also is a village of the Corinthian territory, in which is the temple of Teneatan Apollo; and it is said that most of the colonists accompanied Archias, who sent out the colony to Syracuse, from here; and that afterwards this settlement prospered more than any other, and at last even had its own government, and, having revolted from the Corinthians, allied itself with the Romans, and continued to survive after the destruction of Corinth.
φέρεται δὲ καὶ χρησμὸς ὁ δοθείς τινι τῶν ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐρωτῶντι εἰ λῷον εἴη μετοικεῖν εἰς Κόρινθον
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εὐδαίμων ὁ Κόρινθος, ἐγὼ δʼ εἴην Τενεάτης. "
ὅπερ κατʼ ἄγνοιάν τινες παρατρέπουσιν
ἐγὼ δʼ εἴην Τεγεάτης. λέγεται δʼ ἐνταῦθα ἐκθρέψαι Πόλυβος τὸν Οἰδίπουν.
And there is also current an oracle given to a certain man from Asia who asked if it would be better to migrate to Corinth: 'Blessed is Corinth, but may I be a Teneatan,' which some people, through ignorance, distort into: 'but may I be a Tegeatan.' And it is said that Polybus brought up Oedipus here.
δοκεῖ δὲ καὶ συγγένειά τις εἶναι Τενεδίοις πρὸς τούτους ἀπὸ Τέννου τοῦ Κύκνου, καθάπερ εἴρηκεν Ἀριστοτέλης· καὶ ἡ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος δὲ τιμὴ παρʼ ἀμφοτέροις ὁμοία οὖσα δίδωσιν οὐ μικρὰ σημεῖα.
And there seems also to be a certain kinship between the Tenedians and these people, derived from Tennes the son of Cycnus, as Aristotle has said; and the worship of Apollo, which is similar in both places, yields no small proof of this.