§9.4.5τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν πόλεων τῶν μὲν ἄλλων οὐκ ἄξιον μεμνῆσθαι·
Of the remaining cities, the others are not worth mentioning.
ὧν δʼ Ὅμηρος μέμνηται Καλλίαρος μὲν οὐκέτι οἰκεῖται, τι πεδίον· καλοῦσι δʼ οὕτως ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐκ ἔστι, δρυμώδης τις τόπος·
Of those mentioned by Homer, Kalliaros is no longer inhabited, [but is] a certain plain; and they call it thus from [the...]. [Bessa] does not exist, [but is] a certain wooded place.
οὐδʼ ραν ἔχουσι Σκαρφιεῖς·
Nor [is Augeiae, of which] the Scarpheians hold the territory.
ταύτην μὲν οὖν τὴν Βῆσσαν ἐν τοῖς δυσὶ γραπτέον σίγμα (ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ δρυμώδους ὠνόμασται ὁμωνύμως, ὥσπερ καὶ Νάπη ἐν τῷ Μηθύμνης πεδίῳ, ἣν Ἑλλάνικος ἀγνοῶν Λάπην ὀνομάζει), τὸν δʼ ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ δῆμον, ἀφʼ οὗ Βησαιεῖς οἱ δημόται λέγονται, ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ σίγμα.
Therefore, this Bessa must be written with two sigmas (for it has been named homonymously from the wooded place, just like Nape in the plain of Methymna, which Hellanicus in ignorance calls Lape), whereas the deme in Attica, from which the demesmen are called Besaiens, with one sigma.
§9.4.6ἡ δὲ Τάρφη κεῖται ἐφʼ ὕψους, διέχουσα σταδίους εἴκοσι, χώραν δʼ εὔκαρπόν τε καὶ εὔδενδρον ἔχει· ἤδη γὰρ καὶ αὕτη ἀπὸ τοῦ δάσους ὠνόμασται.
And Tarphe lies on a high place, at a distance of twenty stadia, and has a fertile and well-wooded territory; for indeed this town too was named after the thicket.
καλεῖται δὲ νῦν Φαρύγαι· ἵδρυται δʼ αὐτόθι Ἥρας Φαρυγαίας ἱερὸν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν Φαρύγαις τῆς Ἀργείας· καὶ δὴ καὶ ἄποικοί φασιν εἶναι Ἀργείων.
And it is now called Pharygae; and there is established there a temple of Pharygaean Hera, named after the one in Pharygae of Argolis; and indeed they say they are colonists of the Argives.
§9.4.7τῶν γε μὴν ἑσπερίων Λοκρῶν Ὅμηρος οὐ μέμνηται, ἢ οὐ ῥητῶς γε, ἀλλὰ μόνον τῷ δοκεῖν ἀντιδιαστέλλεσθαι τούτοις ἐκείνους περὶ ὧν εἰρήκαμεν
Λοκρῶν, οἳ ναίουσι πέρην ἱερῆς Εὐβοίης,
ὡς καὶ ἑτέρων ὄντων.
At any rate, Homer does not mention the Western Locrians, or at least not explicitly, but only by seeming to contrast with them those of whom we have spoken: "Of the Locrians, who dwell opposite sacred Euboea," implying that there were also others.
ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ὑπὸ τῶν ἄλλων τεθρύληνται πολλῶν·
Nor have they been much celebrated by many other writers.
πόλεις δʼ ἔσχον Ἄμφισσάν τε καὶ Ναύπακτον, ὧν ἡ Ναύπακτος συμμένει τοῦ Ἀντιρρίου πλησίον, ὠνόμασται δʼ ἀπὸ τῆς ναυπηγίας τῆς ἐκεῖ γενομένης, εἴτε τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν ἐκεῖ ναυπηγησαμένων τὸν στόλον, εἴθʼ (ὥς φησιν Ἔφορος) Λοκρῶν ἔτι πρότερον παρασκευασάντων· ἔστι δὲ νῦν Αἰτωλῶν Φιλίππου προσκρίναντος.
They had as cities Amphissa and Naupactus, of which Naupactus still survives near Antirrium, and was named after the shipbuilding that took place there, whether because the Heracleidae built their fleet there, or (as Ephorus says) because the Locrians had prepared it even earlier; and it now belongs to the Aetolians, Philip having assigned it to them.
§9.4.8αὐτοῦ δὲ καὶ ἡ Χαλκίς, ἧς μέμνηται καὶ ὁ ποιητὴς ἐν τῷ Αἰτωλικῷ καταλόγῳ, ὑποκάτω Καλυδῶνος· αὐτοῦ δὲ καὶ ὁ Ταφιασσὸς λόφος, ἐν ᾧ τὸ τοῦ Νέσσου μνῆμα καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Κενταύρων, ὧν ἀπὸ τῆς σηπεδόνος φασὶ τὸ ὑπὸ τῇ ῥίζῃ τοῦ λόφου προχεόμενον δυσῶδες καὶ θρόμβους ἔχον ὕδωρ ῥεῖν· διὰ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ Ὀζόλας καλεῖσθαι τὸ ἔθνος.
And in the same place is also Chalcis, which the poet also mentions in the Aetolian Catalogue, below Calydon; and there too is the hill Taphiassus, in which is the tomb of Nessus and the other Centaurs, from whose putrefaction they say flows the water that gushes out at the foot of the hill, smelling foul and containing clots; and they say that because of this the tribe was also called Ozolae.
καὶ ἡ Μολύκρεια δʼ ἐστὶ κατὰ τὸ Ἀντίρριον, Αἰτωλικὸν πολίχνιον.
Molycreia too is near Antirrium, an Aetolian small town.
ἡ δʼ Ἄμφισσα ἐπὶ τοῖς ἄκροις ἵδρυται τοῦ Κρισαίου πεδίου, κατέσπασαν δʼ αὐτὴν οἱ Ἀμφικτύονες, καθάπερ εἰρήκαμεν· α δὲ καὶ Εὐπάλιον Λοκρῶν εἰσίν.
Amphissa is situated on the edges of the Crisaean plain, and the Amphictyons razed it, as we have said; [and... ]a and Eupalium are of the Locrians.
ὁ δὲ πᾶς παράπλους ὁ Λοκρικὸς μικρὸν ὑπερβάλλει τῶν διακοσίων σταδίων.
The entire coastal voyage of Locris is slightly more than two hundred stadia.
§9.4.9Ἀλόπην δὲ καὶ ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἐν τοῖς Ἐπικνημιδίοις ὀνομάζουσι καὶ ἐν τῇ Φθιώτιδι· οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ἄποικοι τῶν Ἐπικνημιδίων εἰσίν, οἱ δʼ Ἐπιζεφύριοι τούτων.
They name Alope both here and among the Epicnemidians and in Phthiotis; now these are colonists of the Epicnemidians, and the Epizephyrians are colonists of these.
§9.4.10τοῖς δὲ Λοκροῖς τοῖς μὲν ἑσπερίοις συνεχεῖς εἰσιν Αἰτωλοί, τοῖς δʼ Ἐπικνημιδίοις Αἰνιᾶνες συνεχεῖς οἱ τὴν Οἴτην ἔχοντες, καὶ μέσοι Δωριεῖς.
And continuous with the Locrians, on the one hand with the Western ones are the Aetolians, and on the other with the Epicnemidians are the Aenianes who occupy Oeta, and in the middle are the Dorians.
οὗτοι μὲν οὖν εἰσιν οἱ τὴν τετράπολιν οἰκήσαντες, ἥν φασιν εἶναι μητρόπολιν τῶν ἁπάντων Δωριέων, πόλεις δʼ ἔσχον Ἐρινεὸν Βοῖον Πίνδον Κυτίνιον· ὑπέρκειται δʼ ἡ Πίνδος τοῦ Ἐρινεοῦ, παραρρεῖ δʼ αὐτὴν ὁμώνυμος ποταμὸς ἐμβάλλων εἰς τὸν Κηφισσὸν οὐ πολὺ τῆς Λιλαίας ἄπωθεν· τινὲς δʼ Ἀκύφαντα λέγουσι τὴν Πίνδον.
These, then, are the ones who inhabited the Tetrapolis, which they say is the metropolis of all the Dorians, and they had as cities Erineus, Boeum, Pindus, and Cytinium; and Pindus lies above Erineus, and a homonymous river flows past it, emptying into the Cephissus not far from Lilaea; and some call Pindus Acyphas.
τούτων ὁ βασιλεὺς Αἰγίμιος ἐκπεσὼν τῆς ἀρχῆς κατήχθη πάλιν, ὡς ἱστοροῦσιν, ὑφʼ Ἡρακλέους· ἀπεμνημόνευσεν οὖν αὐτῷ τὴν χάριν τελευτήσαντι περὶ τὴν Οἴτην· Ὕλλον γὰρ εἰσεποιήσατο τὸν πρεσβύτατον τῶν ἐκείνου παίδων, καὶ διεδέξατο ἐκεῖνος τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ οἱ ἀπόγονοι.
Of these people, King Aegimius, having been expelled from his rule, was brought back again, as they relate, by Heracles; he therefore remembered the favor to him when he died near Oeta; for he adopted Hyllus, the eldest of Heracles' children, and he and his descendants succeeded to the rule.
ἐντεῦθεν ὁρμηθεῖσι τοῖς Ἡρακλείδαις ὑπῆρξεν ἡ εἰς Πελοπόννησον κάθοδος.
Starting from here, the Heracleidae achieved their return to the Peloponnese.
§9.4.11τέως μὲν οὖν ἦσαν ἐν ἀξιώματι αἱ πόλεις, καίπερ οὖσαι μικραὶ καὶ λυπρόχωροι, ἔπειτʼ ὠλιγωρήθησαν· ἐν δὲ τῷ Φωκικῷ πολέμῳ καὶ τῇ Μακεδόνων ἐπικρατείᾳ καὶ Αἰτωλῶν καὶ Ἀθαμάνων θαυμαστὸν εἰ καὶ ἴχνος αὐτῶν εἰς Ῥωμαίους ἦλθε.
Thus for a time, then, these cities were in repute, although they were small and of poor soil, but later they were neglected; and in the Phocian War and during the supremacy of the Macedonians, as well as of the Aetolians and Athamanes, it is a wonder if even a trace of them survived to the time of the Romans.
τὰ δʼ αὐτὰ πεπόνθασι καὶ Αἰνιᾶνες· καὶ γὰρ τούτους ἐξέφθειραν Αἰτωλοί τε καὶ Ἀθαμᾶνες, Αἰτωλοὶ μὲν μετὰ Ἀκαρνάνων πολεμοῦντες καὶ μέγα δυνάμενοι, Ἀθαμᾶνες δʼ ὕστατοι τῶν Ἠπειρωτῶν εἰς ἀξίωμα προαχθέντες, ἤδη τῶν ἄλλων ἀπειρηκότων, καὶ μετʼ Ἀμυνάνδρου τοῦ βασιλέως δύναμιν κατασκευασάμενοι.
And the Aenianes suffered the same fate; for these too were destroyed by the Aetolians and the Athamanes—the Aetolians fighting along with the Acarnanians and having great power, and the Athamanes being the last of the Epirotes to be raised to repute, when the others had already given up, and having established a strong power under their king Amynander.
οὗτοι δὲ τὴν Οἴτην διακατεῖχον.
And these people used to hold Oeta.