§9.1.1περιωδευκόσι δὲ τὴν Πελοπόννησον, ἣν πρώτην ἔφαμεν καὶ ἐλαχίστην τῶν συντιθεισῶν τὴν Ἑλλάδα χερρονήσων, ἐφεξῆς ἂν εἴη τὰς συνεχεῖς ἐπελθεῖν.
Having circumnavigated the Peloponnese, which we said was the first and smallest of the peninsulas that make up Greece, it would be next in order to go over the regions adjacent to it.
ἦν δὲ δευτέρα μὲν ἡ προστιθεῖσα τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ τὴν Μεγαρίδα, ὥστε τὸν Κρομμυῶνα Μεγαρέων εἶναι καὶ μὴ Κορινθίων· τρίτη δὲ ἡ πρὸς ταύτῃ προσλαμβάνουσα τὴν Ἀττικὴν καὶ τὴν Βοιωτίαν καὶ τῆς Φωκίδος τι μέρος καὶ τῶν Ἐπικνημιδίων Λοκρῶν.
The second peninsula was the one which adds Megaris to the Peloponnese, so that Crommyon belongs to the Megarians and not to the Corinthians; the third is the one which, in addition to this, takes in Attica, Boeotia, a part of Phocis, and the Epicnemidian Locrians.
περὶ τούτων οὖν.
About these, then, [we shall speak].
φησὶ δʼ Εὔδοξος, εἴ τις νοήσειεν ἀπὸ τῶν Κεραυνίων ὀρῶν ἐπὶ Σούνιον τὸ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἄκρον ἐπὶ τὰ πρὸς ἕω μέρη τεταμένην εὐθεῖαν, ἐν δεξιᾷ μὲν ἀπολείψειν τὴν Πελοπόννησον ὅλην πρὸς νότον, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἄρκτον τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν Κεραυνίων ὀρῶν συνεχῆ παραλίαν μέχρι τοῦ Κρισαίου κόλπου καὶ τῆς Μεγαρίδος καὶ συμπάσης τῆς Ἀττικῆς·
Eudoxus says that if one should conceive a straight line drawn from the Ceraunian Mountains to Sunium, the promontory of Attica, extending towards the east, he would leave on his right, to the south, the whole of the Peloponnese, and on his left, to the north, the continuous coastline from the Ceraunian Mountains as far as the Crisaean Gulf, Megaris, and the whole of Attica.
νομίζει δʼ οὐδʼ ἂν κ τὴν ᾐόνα τὴν ἀπὸ Σουνίου μέχρι ἔχειν ἐπιστροφήν, εἰ μὴ προσῆν τῇ τὰ συνεχῆ τῷ Ἰσθμῷ χωρία τὰ Ἑρμιονικὸν καὶ τὴν Ἀκτήν· ὡς δʼ αὕίων ἐπὶ τὸν Κορινθιακὸν κόλπον ἔχειν τινὰ τοσαύφὴν ὥστε κοιλαίνεσθαι κολποειδῶς καθʼ αὑ Ῥίον καὶ τὸ Ἀντίρριον συναγόμενα εἰς στενὸν ἔμφασιν ταύτην· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τὰ περι τὸν μυχόν, εἰς ἃ καταλήγειν συμβαίνει τὴν θάλατταν.
He also thinks that the shore from Sunium as far as [the Isthmus] would not even have any [curve] or turn, if there were not adjacent to the [land] the territories next to the Isthmus, namely, the Hermionic Gulf and the Acte; and [in the same way, the coast] extending to the Corinthian Gulf has [such a turn] as to be hollowed out like a gulf in itself, the Rhium and Antirrhium, which draw together into a strait, showing this shape; and likewise also the parts around the innermost recess where the sea happens to terminate.
§9.1.2οὕτω δʼ εἰρηκότος Εὐδόξου, μαθηματικοῦ ἀνδρὸς καὶ σχημάτων ἐμπείρου καὶ κλιμάτων καὶ τοὺς τόπους τούτους εἰδότος, δεῖ νοεῖν τήνδε τὴν πλευρὰν τῆς Ἀττικῆς σὺν τῇ Μεγαρίδι τὴν ἀπὸ Σουνίου μέχρι Ἰσθμοῦ κοίλην μὲν ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ μικρόν.
Eudoxus having spoken thus—a man who was a mathematician and experienced in figures and climates, and who knew these places—we must conceive this side of Attica, together with Megaris, from Sunium as far as the Isthmus, as being indeed concave, but only slightly so.
ἐνταῦθα δʼ ἐστὶ κατὰ μέσην που τὴν λεχθεῖσαν γραμμὴν ὁ Πειραιεὺς τὸ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν ἐπίνειον.
Here, about the middle of the line mentioned, is Peiraeus, the seaport of Athens.
διέχει γὰρ τοῦ μὲν Σχοινοῦντος τοῦ κατὰ τὸν Ἰσθμὸν περὶ τριακοσίους πεντήκοντα σταδίους, τοῦ δὲ Σουνίου τριάκοντα καὶ τριακοσίους·
For it is distant from Schoenus, which is near the Isthmus, about three hundred and fifty stadia, and from Sunium three hundred and thirty.
ον πώς ἐστι διάστημα καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ Πηγὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ Πει, ὅσονπερ καὶ ἐπὶ Σχοινοῦντα· δέκα δʼ ὅμως στα πλεονάζειν φασί.
The distance from Pei[raeus] to Pegae is also [about equal] to that to Schoenus; however, they say that it exceeds it by ten sta[dia].
κάμψαντι δὲ τὸ Σούνιον πρὸς ἄρκτον μὲν ὁ πλοῦς, ἐκκλίνων πρὸς δύσιν.
Having rounded Sunium, the voyage is towards the north, bending towards the west.
§9.1.3ἀκτὴ δʼ ἐστὶν ἀμφιθάλαττος, στενὴ τὸ πρῶτον, εἶτʼ εἰς τὴν μεσόγαιαν πλατύνεται, μηνοειδῆ δʼ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐπιστροφὴν λαμβάνει πρὸς Ὠρωπὸν τῆς Βοιωτίας τὸ κυρτὸν ἔχουσαν πρὸς θαλάττῃ· τοῦτο δʼ ἐστὶ τὸ δεύτερον πλευρὸν ἑῷον τῆς Ἀττικῆς.
Attica is a coastland washed by two seas, narrow at first, and then it widens towards the interior, but nevertheless takes a crescent-like curve towards Oropus of Boeotia, having its convex side towards the sea; this is the second, eastern side of Attica.
τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν ἤδη τὸ προσάρκτιόν ἐστι πλευρὸν ἀπὸ τῆς Ὠρωπίας ἐπὶ δύσιν παρατεῖνον μέχρι τῆς Μεγαρίδος, ἡ Ἀττικὴ ὀρεινή, πολυώνυμός τις, διείργουσα τὴν Βοιωτίαν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀττικῆς· ὥσθʼ, ὅπερ εἶπον ἐν τοῖς πρόσθεν, ἰσθμὸν γίνεσθαι τὴν Βοιωτίαν ἀμφιθάλαττον οὖσαν τῆς τρίτης χερρονήσου τῆς λεχθείσης, ἀπολαμβάνοντα ἐντὸς τὰ πρὸς τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ τήν τε Μεγαρίδα καὶ τὴν Ἀττικήν.
The remaining part is now the northern side, extending from the territory of Oropus towards the west as far as Megaris, being the mountainous country of Attica, which has many names, and separates Boeotia from Attica; so that, as I said before, Boeotia, being washed by two seas, becomes the isthmus of the third peninsula mentioned above, enclosing within it Megaris and Attica on the side near the Peloponnese.
διὰ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ Ἀκτήν φασι λεχθῆναι τὸ παλαιὸν καὶ Ἀκτικὴν τὴν νῦν Ἀττικὴν παρονομασθεῖσαν, ὅτι τοῖς ὄρεσιν ὑποπέπτωκε τὸ πλεῖστον μέρος αὐτῆς ἁλιτενὲς καὶ στενόν, μήκει δʼ ἀξιολόγῳ κεχρημένον, προπεπτωκὸς μέχρι Σουνίου.
For this reason also they say that it was called "Acte" in ancient times, and "Actice" which by a slight change of name is the present "Attica," because the greater part of it lies under the mountains, flat along the sea and narrow, though having a considerable length, projecting as far as Sunium.
ταύτας οὖν διέξιμεν ἀναλααραλίας ἀφʼ ἧσπερ ἀπελίπομεν.
These regions, therefore, we shall describe in detail, [starting again from the] coast where we left off.