§8.7.5ἑκάστη δὲ τῶν δώδεκα μερίδων ἐκ δήμων συνειστήκει ἑπτὰ καὶ ὀκτώ· τοσοῦτον εὐανδρεῖν τὴν χώραν συνέβαινεν.
Each of the twelve parts was composed of seven or eight demes; so well-peopled did the country happen to be.
ἔστι δʼ ἡ Πελλήνη στάδια ἑξήκοντα τῆς θαλάττης ὑπερκειμένη, φρούριον ἐρυμνόν.
Pellene lies sixty stadia above the sea, a strong fortress.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ κώμη Πελλήνη, ὅθεν καὶ αἱ Πελληνικαὶ χλαῖναι, ἃς καὶ ἆθλα ἐτίθεσαν ἐν τοῖς ἀγῶσι· κεῖται δὲ μεταξὺ Αἰγίου καὶ Πελλήνης·
There is also a village called Pellene, whence come the Pellenian cloaks, which they also offered as prizes in the games; it lies between Aegium and Pellene.
τὰ δὲ Πέλλανα ἕτερα τούτων ἐστί, Λακωνικὸν χωρίον, ὡς πρὸς τὴν Μεγαλοπολῖτιν νεῦον.
Pellana is different from these, a Laconian place, inclining towards the Megalopolitis.
Αἴγειρα δὲ ἐπὶ βουνοῦ κεῖται.
Aegeira is situated on a hill.
Βοῦρα δʼ ὑπέρκειται τῆς θαλάττης ἐν τετταράκοντά πως σταδίοις, ἣν ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ καταποθῆναι συνέβη. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς ἐνταῦθα κρήνης Συβάριδος τὸν κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ποταμὸν ὀνομασθῆναί φασιν.
Bura lies above the sea about forty stadia, which happened to be swallowed up by an earthquake; and they say that the river in Italy was named after the spring Sybaris here.
ἡ δʼ Αἰγὰ (καὶ γὰρ οὕτω λέγουσι τὰς Αἰγὰς) νῦν μὲν οὐκ οἰκεῖται, τὴν δὲ χώραν ἔχουσιν Αἰγιεῖς.
Aega (for indeed they call Aegae thus in the singular) is not inhabited now, but the Aegieans possess the territory.
Αἴγιον δὲ ἱκανῶς οἰκεῖται· ἱστοροῦσι δʼ ἐνταῦθα τὸν Δία ὑπʼ αἰγὸς ἀνατραφῆναι, καθάπερ φησὶ καὶ Ἄρατος
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αἲξ ἱερή, τὴν μέν τε λόγος Διὶ μαζὸν ἐπισχεῖν.
Aegium is sufficiently inhabited; and they relate here that Zeus was brought up by a goat, just as Aratus also says: "The sacred goat, which legend says held her breast to Zeus.
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ἐπιλέγει δὲ καὶ ὅτι
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Ὠλενίην δέ μιν αἶγα Διὸς καλέουσʼ ὑποφῆται
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δηλῶν τὸν τόπον διότι πλησίον Ὠλένη.
"And he adds also that: "The interpreters of Zeus call her the Olenian goat, "showing the place because Olenus was near.
αὐτοῦ δὲ καὶ ἡ Κερύνεια ἐπὶ πέτρας ὑψηλῆς ἱδρυμένη.
Near this also is Ceryneia, established upon a high rock.
Αἰγιέων δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ ταῦτα καὶ Ἑλίκη καὶ τὸ τοῦ Διὸς ἄλσος τὸ Ἁμάριον, ὅπου συνῄεσαν οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ βουλευσόμενοι περὶ τῶν κοινῶν.
Both these and Helice and the Amarion, the sacred grove of Zeus, where the Achaeans used to meet to consult on public affairs, belong to the Aegieans.
ῥεῖ δὲ διὰ τῆς Αἰγιέων ὁ Σελινοῦς ποταμός, ὁμώνυμος τῷ τε ἐν Ἐφέσῳ παρὰ τὸ Ἀρτεμίσιον ῥέοντι, καὶ τῷ ἐν τῇ νῦν Ἠλείᾳ τῷ παραρρέοντι τὸ χωρίον ὅ φησιν ὠνήσασθαι τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι Ξενοφῶν κατὰ χρησμόν· ἄλλος δὲ Σελινοῦς ὁ παρὰ τοῖς Ὑβλαίοις Μεγαρεῦσιν, οὓς ἀνέστησαν Καρχηδόνιοι.
And through the territory of the Aegieans flows the River Selinus, of the same name as that which flows in Ephesus past the Artemision, and that in what is now Eleia, which flows past the estate which Xenophon says he bought for Artemis according to an oracle; and another Selinus is that among the Hyblaean Megarians, whom the Carthaginians removed.
τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν πόλεων τῶν Ἀχαϊκῶν εἴτε μερίδων Ῥύπες μὲν οὐκ οἰκοῦνται, τὴν δὲ χώραν Ῥυπίδα καλουμένην ἔσχον Αἰγιεῖς καὶ Φαριεῖς· ἐκ δὲ τῶν Ῥυπῶν ἦν ὁ Μύσκελλος ὁ Κρότωνος οἰκιστής· τῆς δὲ Ῥυπίδος καὶ τὸ Λεῦκτρον ἦν, δῆμος τῶν Ῥυπῶν.
Of the remaining Achaean cities or parts, Rhypes is not inhabited, but the Aegieans and Pharians possessed the territory called Rhypis; and from Rhypes was Myscellus, the founder of Croton; and to Rhypis belonged also Leuctrum, a deme of Rhypes.
μετὰ δὲ τούτους Πάτραι πόλις ἀξιόλογος· μεταξὺ δὲ τὸ Ῥίον ἀπέχον Πατρῶν στάδια τετταράκοντα.
After these is Patrae, a notable city; and between them is Rhium, forty stadia distant from Patrae.
Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ νεωστὶ μετὰ τὴν Ἀκτιακὴν νίκην ἵδρυσαν αὐτόθι τῆς στρατιᾶς μέρος ἀξιόλογον, καὶ διαφερόντως εὐανδρεῖ νῦν ἀποικία Ῥωμαίων οὖσα· ἔχει δὲ ὕφορμον μέτριον.
The Romans recently, after the victory at Actium, settled a notable part of their army there, and it is now outstandingly well-peopled, being a Roman colony; and it has a moderate anchorage.
ἐφεξῆς δʼ ἐστὶν ἡ Δύμη, πόλις ἀλίμενος, πασῶν δυσμικωτάτη, ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ τοὔνομα· πρότερον δʼ ἐκαλεῖτο Στράτος· διαιρεῖ δʼ αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἠλείας κατὰ Βουπράσιον ὁ Λάρισος ποταμός, ῥέων ἐξ ὄρους· τοῦτο δʼ οἱ μὲν Σκόλλιν καλοῦσιν, Ὅμηρος δὲ πέτρην Ὠλενίην.
Next is Dyme, a city without a harbor, the westernmost of all, whence also its name; formerly it was called Stratos; and the River Larisus divides it from Eleia near Buprasium, flowing from a mountain; this mountain some call Scollis, but Homer calls it the Olenian Rock.
τοῦ δʼ Ἀντιμάχου Καυκωνίδα τὴν Δύμην εἰπόντος, οἱ μὲν ἐδέξαντο ἀπὸ τῶν Καυκώνων ἐπιθέτως εἰρῆσθαι αὐτὸ μέχρι δεῦρο καθηκόντων, καθάπερ ἐπάνω προείπομεν· οἱ δʼ ἀπὸ Καύκωνος ποταμοῦ τινος, ὡς αἱ Θῆβαι Διρκαῖαι καὶ Ἀσωπίδες, Ἄργος δʼ Ἰνάχειον, Τροία δὲ Σιμουντίς.
And since Antimachus called Dyme "Cauconis", some understood it to be said epithetically from the Caucones who reached as far as here, just as we said above; but others from some River Caucon, as Thebes is called Dircaean and Asopidian, Argos Inachian, and Troy Simoisian.
δέδεκται δʼ οἰκήτορας καὶ ἡ Δύμη μικρὸν πρὸ ἡμῶν ἀνθρώπους μιγάδας, οὓς ἀπὸ τοῦ πειρατικοῦ πλήθους περιλιπεῖς ἔσχε Πομπήιος, καταλύσας τὰ λῃστήρια καὶ ἱδρύσας τοὺς μὲν ἐν Σόλοις τοῖς Κιλικίοις τοὺς δʼ ἄλλοθι καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐνταῦθα.
Dyme also received as inhabitants a mixed people a little before our time, whom Pompey had remaining from the pirate multitude, when he put down the robberies and settled some in Soli in Cilicia, others elsewhere, and indeed also here.
ἡ δὲ Φάρα συνορεῖ μὲν τῇ Δυμαίᾳ.
Phara borders on the Dymaean territory.
καλοῦνται δὲ οἱ μὲν ἐκ ταύτης τῆς Φάρας Φαρεῖς, οἱ δʼ ἐκ τῆς Μεσσηνιακῆς Φαραιᾶται· ἔστι δʼ ἐν τῇ Φαραϊκῇ Δίρκη κρήνη ὁμώνυμος τῇ ἐν Θήβαις.
And those from this Phara are called Phareis, but those from the Messenian are called Pharaeatae; and in the Pharaic territory is the spring Dirce, of the same name as that in Thebes.
ἡ δʼ Ὤλενος ἔστι μὲν ἔρημος, κεῖται δὲ μεταξὺ Πατρῶν καὶ Δύμης· ἔχουσι δὲ Δυμαῖοι τὴν χώραν.
Olenus is deserted, and lies between Patrae and Dyme; and the Dymaeans have the territory.
εἶτʼ Ἄραξος, τὸ ἀκρωτήριον τῆς Ἠλείας, ἀπὸ Ἰσθμοῦ στάδιοι χίλιοι.
Then Araxus, the promontory of Eleia, a thousand stadia from the Isthmus.