§9.1.20τοσαῦτʼ οὖν ἀπόχρη προσθεῖσιν ὅτι φησὶ Φιλόχορος πορθουμένης τῆς χώρας ἐκ θαλάττης μὲν ὑπὸ Καρῶν ἐκ γῆς δὲ ὑπὸ Βοιωτῶν, οὓς ἐκάλουν Ἄονας, Κέκροπα πρῶτον εἰς δώδεκα πόλεις συνοικίσαι τὸ πλῆθος, ὧν ὀνόματα Κεκροπία Τετράπολις Ἐπακρία Δεκέλεια Ἐλευσὶς Ἄφιδνα (λέγουσι δὲ καὶ πληθυντικῶς Ἀφίδνας) Θόρικος Βραυρὼν Κύθηρος Σφηττὸς Κηφισιά πάλιν δʼ ὕστερον εἰς μίαν πόλιν συναγαγεῖν λέγεται τὴν νῦν τὰς δώδεκα Θησεύς.
Therefore, it is sufficient to add this much, namely that Philochorus says that, while the country was being plundered from the sea by the Carians, and from the land by the Boeotians, whom they used to call Aones, Cecrops first settled the multitude into twelve cities, of which the names are Cecropia, Tetrapolis, Epacria, Decelea, Eleusis, Aphidna (they also use the plural, Aphidnae), Thoricus, Brauron, Cytherus, Sphettus, Cephisia; and again later, Theseus is said to have gathered the twelve into one city, the current one.
ἐβασιλεύοντο μὲν πρότερον, εἶτʼ εἰς δημοκρατίαν μετέστησαν· τυράννων δʼ ἐπιθεμένων αὐτοῖς, Πεισιστράτου καὶ τῶν παίδων, ὕστερόν τε ὀλιγαρχίας γενομένης τῆς τε τῶν τετρακοσίων καὶ τῆς τῶν τριάκοντα τυράννων, οὓς ἐπέστησαν Λακεδαιμόνιοι, τούτους μὲν διεκρούσαντο ῥᾳδίως, ἐφύλαξαν δὲ τὴν δημοκρατίαν μέχρι τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐπικρατείας.
At first they were ruled by kings, then they changed to a democracy; and when tyrants attacked them, namely Peisistratus and his sons, and later when oligarchies arose, both that of the Four Hundred and that of the Thirty Tyrants, whom the Lacedaemonians established, they easily shook these off, and guarded their democracy until the Roman supremacy.
καὶ γὰρ εἴ τι μικρὸν ὑπὸ τῶν Μακεδονικῶν βασιλέων παρελυπήθησαν ὥσθʼ ὑπακούειν αὐτῶν ἀναγκασθῆναι, τόν γε ὁλοσχερῆ τύπον τῆς πολιτείας τὸν αὐτὸν διετήρουν.
For even if they were somewhat harassed by the Macedonian kings so as to be forced to obey them, they nevertheless preserved the same general form of government.
ἔνιοι δέ φασι καὶ βέλτιστα τότε αὐτοὺς πολιτεύσασθαι δεκαετῆ χρόνον ὃν ἦρχε Μακεδόνων Κάσανδρος.
And some say that they governed themselves best during that ten-year period when Cassander ruled the Macedonians.
οὗτος γὰρ ὁ ἀνὴρ πρὸς μὲν τὰ ἄλλα δοκεῖ τυραννικώτερος γενέσθαι, πρὸς Ἀθηναίους δὲ εὐγνωμόνησε λαβὼν ὑπήκοον τὴν πόλιν· ἐπέστησε γὰρ τῶν πολιτῶν Δημήτριον τὸν Φαληρέα τῶν Θεοφράστου τοῦ φιλοσόφου γνωρίμων, ὃς οὐ μόνον οὐ κατέλυσε τὴν δημοκρατίαν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπηνώρθωσε.
For this man, while in other respects he seems to have been rather tyrannical, was well-disposed towards the Athenians after taking the city as a subject; for he placed over them as ruler Demetrius of Phalerum, one of the associates of the philosopher Theophrastus, who not only did not destroy the democracy but even reformed it.
δηλοῖ δὲ τὰ ὑπομνήματα ἃ συνέγραψε περὶ τῆς πολιτείας ταύτης ἐκεῖνος.
This is shown by the memoirs which that man wrote about this constitution.
ἀλλʼ οὕτως ὁ φθόνος ἴσχυσε καὶ ἡ πρὸς ὀλίγους ἀπέχθεια ὥστε μετὰ τὴν Κασάνδρου τελευτὴν ἠναγκάσθη φυγεῖν εἰς Αἴγυπτον· τὰς δʼ εἰκόνας αὐτοῦ πλείους ἢ τριακοσίας κατέσπασαν οἱ ἐπαναστάντες καὶ κατεχώνευσαν, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ προστιθέασιν ὅτι καὶ εἰς ἀμίδας.
But envy and hatred towards the few was so strong that after the death of Cassander he was forced to flee to Egypt; and those who revolted pulled down his statues, of which there were more than three hundred, and melted them down, and some even add that they melted them into chamber-pots.
Ῥωμαῖοι δʼ οὖν παραλαβόντες αὐτοὺς δημοκρατουμένους ἐφύλαξαν τὴν αὐτονομίαν αὐτοῖς καὶ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν.
At any rate, the Romans, receiving them under a democratic government, preserved their autonomy and freedom for them.
ἐπιπεσὼν δʼ ὁ Μιθριδατικὸς πόλεμος τυράννους αὐτοῖς κατέστησεν οὓς ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐβούλετο· τὸν δʼ ἰσχύσαντα μάλιστα τὸν Ἀριστίωνα καὶ ταύτην βιασάμενον τὴν πόλιν ἐκ πολιορκίας ἑλὼν Σύλλας ὁ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμὼν ἐκόλασε, τῇ δὲ πόλει συγγνώμην ἔνειμε· καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἐν ἐλευθερίᾳ τέ ἐστι καὶ τιμῇ παρὰ τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις.
But when the Mithridatic War came upon them, it established tyrants over them whom the king wanted; and Sulla, the Roman commander, having taken by siege and punished Aristion, who had become the most powerful and had forced this city, granted pardon to the city; and until now it is in freedom and honor among the Romans.
§9.1.21μετὰ δὲ τὸν Πειραιᾶ Φαληρεῖς δῆμος ἐν τῇ ἐφεξῆς παραλίᾳ· εἶθʼ Ἁλιμούσιοι Αἰξωνεῖς Ἁλαιεῖς οἱ Αἰξωνικοὶ Ἀναγυράσιοι· εἶτα Θοραιεῖς Λαμπτρεῖς Αἰγιλιεῖς Ἀναφλύστιοι Ἀζηνιεῖς· οὗτοι μὲν οἱ μέχρι τῆς ἄκρας τοῦ Σουνίου.
After Peiraeus, the deme of Phaleris is on the adjacent coast; then the Halimusians, the Aexonians, the Halaeans of Aexone, the Anagyrasians; then the Thoraeans, the Lamptrians, the Aegilians, the Anaphlystians, the Azenians; these are the ones as far as the promontory of Sunium.
μεταξὺ δὲ τῶν λεχθέντων δήμων μακρὰ ἄκρα, πρώτη μετὰ τοὺς Αἰξωνέας Ζωστήρ, εἶτʼ ἄλλη μετὰ Θοραιέας Ἀστυπάλαια· ὧν τῆς μὲν πρόκειται νῆσος Φάβρα τῆς δʼ Ἐλαιοῦσσα· καὶ κατὰ τοὺς Αἰξωνέας δʼ ἔστιν Ὑδροῦσσα·
And between the said demes are long promontories: the first, after the Aexonians, is Zoster, then another, after the Thoraeans, is Astypalaea; off the former lies the island Phabra, off the latter Elaeussa; and off the Aexonians is Hydroussa.
περὶ δὲ Ἀνάφλυστόν ἐστι καὶ τὸ Πανεῖον καὶ τὸ τῆς Κωλιάδος Ἀφροδίτης ἱερόν, εἰς ὃν τόπον ἐκκυμανθῆναι τὰ τελευταῖα τὰ ἐκ τῆς περὶ Σαλαμῖνα ναυμαχίας τῆς Περσικῆς ναυάγιά φασι, περὶ ὧν καὶ τὸν Ἀπόλλω προειπεῖν
Κωλιάδες δὲ γυναῖκες ἐρετμοῖσι φρύξουσι. πρόκειται δὲ καὶ τούτων τῶν τόπων Βέλβινα νῆσος οὐ πολὺ ἄπωθεν καὶ ὁ Πατρόκλου χάραξ· ἔρημοι δʼ αἱ πλεῖσται τούτων.
And near Anaphlystus is both the Paneium and the temple of Aphrodite Colias, to which place they say the last of the wreckage from the Persian sea-fight near Salamis was washed up, concerning which they say Apollo also foretold: "And the Colian women shall cook with oars." And off these places also lies the island of Belbina, not far away, and the Palisade of Patroclus; and most of these are deserted.