§2.13.1Ἡρακλειδῶν δὲ κατελθόντων Πελοπόννησος ἐταράχθη πᾶσα πλὴν Ἀρκάδων, ὡς πολλὰς μὲν τῶν πόλεων συνοίκους ἐκ τοῦ Δωρικοῦ προσλαβεῖν, πλείονας δὲ ἔτι γενέσθαι τὰς μεταβολὰς τοῖς οἰκήτορσι.
When the Heracleidae returned, the whole of the Peloponnese was thrown into confusion except for the Arcadians, so that many of the cities received fellow-inhabitants from the Doric stock, and the changes for the inhabitants became still more numerous.
τὰ δὲ κατὰ Φλιοῦντα οὕτως ἔχει.
The affairs of Phlius are as follows.
Ῥηγνίδας ἐπʼ αὐτὴν ὁ Φάλκου τοῦ Τημένου Δωριεὺς ἐκ τε Ἄργους στρατεύει καὶ ἐκ τῆς Σικυωνίας.
Rhegnidas, the Dorian, son of Phalces, son of Temenus, marched against it both from Argos and from Sicyonia.
τῶν δὲ Φλιασίων τοῖς μὲν ἃ προεκαλεῖτο Ῥηγνίδας ἐφαίνετο ἀρεστά, μένοντας ἐπὶ τοῖς αὑτῶν βασιλέα Ῥηγνίδαν καὶ τοὺς σὺν ἐκείνῳ Δωριεῖς ἐπὶ ἀναδασμῷ γῆς δέχεσθαι·
To some of the Phliasians, the proposals which Rhegnidas made seemed acceptable: that, remaining on their own land, they should receive Rhegnidas as king and the Dorians with him on the basis of a redistribution of the land.
§2.13.2Ἵππασος δὲ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ διεκελεύοντο ἀμύνεσθαι μηδὲ πολλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἀμαχεὶ τοῖς Δωριεῦσιν ἀφίστασθαι.
But Hippasus and his party urged them to defend themselves and not to surrender many advantages without a fight to the Dorians.
προσεμένου δὲ τοῦ δήμου τὴν ἐναντίαν γνώμην, οὕτως Ἵππασος σὺν τοῖς ἐθέλουσιν ἐς Σάμον φεύγει.
When the people, however, accepted the opposite opinion, Hippasus thus fled to Samos with those who were willing.
Ἱππάσου δὲ τούτου τέταρτος ἦν ἀπόγονος Πυθαγόρας ὁ λεγόμενος γενέσθαι σοφός· Μνησάρχου γὰρ Πυθαγόρας ἦν τοῦ Εὔφρονος τοῦ Ἱππάσου.
Pythagoras, who is said to have become a wise man, was the fourth descendant of this Hippasus; for Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus, the son of Euphron, the son of Hippasus.
ταῦτα μὲν Φλιάσιοι λέγουσι περὶ αὑτῶν, ὁμολογοῦσι δέ σφισι τὰ πολλὰ καὶ Σικυώνιοι.
These things the Phliasians say about themselves, and the Sicyonians also agree with them in most respects.
§2.13.3προσέσται δὲ ἤδη καὶ τῶν ἐς ἐπίδειξιν ἡκόντων τὰ ἀξιολογώτατα.
To my narrative will now be added also the most noteworthy of those things which are of interest for sightseers.
ἔστι γὰρ ἐν τῇ Φλιασίων ἀκροπόλει κυπαρίσσων ἄλσος καὶ ἱερὸν ἁγιώτατον ἐκ παλαιοῦ· τὴν δὲ θεὸν ἧς ἐστι τὸ ἱερὸν οἱ μὲν ἀρχαιότατοι Φλιασίων Γανυμήδαν, οἱ δὲ ὕστερον Ἥβην ὀνομάζουσιν·
For in the acropolis of the Phliasians there is a grove of cypresses and a sanctuary most holy from of old; the goddess to whom the sanctuary belongs is named Ganymeda by the most ancient of the Phliasians, but Hebe by those of later times.
ἧς καὶ Ὅμηρος μνήμην ἐποιήσατο ἐν τῇ Μενελάου πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον μονομαχίᾳ φάμενος οἰνοχόον τῶν θεῶν εἶναι, καὶ αὖθις ἐν Ὀδυσσέως ἐς Ἅιδου καθόδῳ γυναῖκα Ἡρακλέους εἶπεν εἶναι.
Homer also made mention of her in the duel of Menelaus against Alexander, saying that she was the cup-bearer of the gods, and again in the descent of Odysseus to Hades he said that she was the wife of Heracles.
Ὠλῆνι δὲ ἐν Ἥρας ἐστὶν ὕμνῳ πεποιημένα τραφῆναι τὴν Ἥραν ὑπὸ Ὡρῶν, εἶναι δέ οἱ παῖδας Ἄρην τε καὶ Ἥβην.
In Olen's hymn to Hera it is composed that Hera was reared by the Seasons, and that her children were Ares and Hebe.
§2.13.4παρὰ δὲ Φλιασίοις τῇ θεῷ ταύτῃ καὶ ἄλλαι τιμαὶ καὶ μέγιστον τὸ ἐς τοὺς ἱκέτας ἐστί· δεδώκασι γὰρ δὴ ἄδειαν ἐνταῦθα ἱκετεύουσι, λυθέντες δὲ οἱ δεσμῶται τὰς πέδας πρὸς τὰ ἐν τῷ ἄλσει δένδρα ἀνατιθέασιν.
Among the Phliasians, this goddess has other honors, and the greatest is that which relates to suppliants; for they have indeed granted immunity to those who supplicate here, and the prisoners, when released, dedicate their fetters to the trees in the grove.
ἄγεται δὲ καὶ ἑορτή σφισιν ἐπέτειος, ἣν καλοῦσι Κισσοτόμους.
An annual festival is also celebrated by them, which they call Cissotomi.
ἄγαλμα δὲ οὔτε ἐν ἀπορρήτῳ φυλάσσουσιν οὐδὲν οὔτε ἐστὶν ἐν φανερῷ δεικνύμενον—ἐφʼ ὅτῳ δὲ οὕτω νομίζουσιν, ἱερός ἐστιν αὐτοῖς λόγος—, ἐπεὶ τῆς γε Ἥρας ἐστὶν ἐξιόντων ἐν ἀριστερᾷ ναὸς ἄγαλμα ἔχων Παρίου λίθου.
They keep no image in secret, nor is there any shown in public—as to why they have this custom, there is a sacred story for them—, since for Hera, at least, there is a temple on the left of those who go out, having an image of Parian marble.
§2.13.5ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀκροπόλει καὶ ἄλλος περίβολός ἐστιν ἱερὸς Δήμητρος, ἐν δὲ αὐτῷ ναός τε καὶ ἄγαλμα Δήμητρος καὶ τῆς παιδός· τὸ δὲ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος—ἔστι γὰρ καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος ἐνταῦθα χαλκοῦν ἄγαλμα—ἐφαίνετο ἀρχαῖον εἶναί μοι.
On the acropolis there is also another sacred enclosure of Demeter, and in it a temple and an image of Demeter and her daughter; but that of Artemis—for there is also a bronze image of Artemis here—seemed to me to be ancient.
κατιόντων δὲ ἐκ τῆς ἀκροπόλεώς ἐστιν Ἀσκληπιοῦ ναὸς ἐν δεξιᾷ καὶ ἄγαλμα οὐκ ἔχον πω γένεια.
For those descending from the acropolis there is on the right a temple of Asclepius and an image not yet having a beard.
ὑπὸ τοῦτον τὸν ναὸν θέατρον πεποίηται· τούτου δὲ οὐ πόρρω Δήμητρός ἐστιν ἱερὸν καὶ καθήμενα ἀγάλματα ἀρχαῖα.
Under this temple a theater has been built; and not far from this is a sanctuary of Demeter and ancient seated images.
§2.13.6ἀνάκειται δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς ἀγορᾶς αἲξ χαλκῆ, τὰ πολλὰ ἐπίχρυσος· παρὰ δὲ Φλιασίοις τιμὰς ἐπὶ τῷδε εἴληφε.
Dedicated in the marketplace is a bronze goat, gilded for the most part; and among the Phliasians it has received honors for the following reason.
τὸ ἄστρον ἣν ὀνομάζουσιν αἶγα ἀνατέλλουσα τὰς ἀμπέλους λυμαίνεται συνεχῶς· ἵνα δὲ ἄχαρι μηδὲν ἀπʼ αὐτῆς γένηται, οἱ δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀγορᾶς χαλκῆν αἶγα ἄλλοις τε τιμῶσι καὶ χρυσῷ τὸ ἄγαλμα ἐπικοσμοῦντες.
The constellation which they name the Goat, when rising, continuously damages the vines; in order that nothing unpleasant may come from it, they honor the bronze goat in the marketplace with other offerings and by decorating the image with gold.
ἐνταῦθά ἐστι καὶ Ἀριστίου μνῆμα τοῦ Πρατίνου· τούτῳ τῷ Ἀριστίᾳ σάτυροι καὶ Πρατίνᾳ τῷ πατρί εἰσι πεποιημένοι πλὴν τῶν Αἰχύλου δοκιμώτατοι.
Here is also the monument of Aristias, the son of Pratinas; the satyr-plays composed by this Aristias and his father Pratinas are, except for those of Aeschylus, the most highly esteemed.
§2.13.7ὄπισθεν δὲ τῆς ἀγορᾶς ἐστιν οἶκος ὀνομαζόμενος ὑπὸ Φλιασίων μαντικός.
Behind the marketplace is a building named by the Phliasians the Prophetic House.
ἐς τοῦτον Ἀμφιάραος ἐλθὼν καὶ τὴν νύκτα ἐγκατακοιμηθεὶς μαντεύεσθαι τότε πρῶτον, ὡς οἱ Φλιάσιοί φασιν, ἤρξατο· τέως δὲ ἦν Ἀμφιάραος τῷ ἐκείνων λόγῳ ἰδιώτης τε καὶ οὐ μάντις.
Having gone into this and slept inside for the night, Amphiaraus then first began to prophesy, as the Phliasians say; before then, according to their account, Amphiaraus was a private person and not a prophet.
καὶ τὸ οἴκημα ἀπὸ τούτου συγκέκλεισται τὸν πάντα ἤδη χρόνον.
And from that time the room has been kept closed for all time since.
οὐ πόρρω δέ ἐστιν ὁ καλούμενος Ὀμφαλός, Πελοποννήσου δὲ πάσης μέσον, εἰ δὴ τὰ ὄντα εἰρήκασιν.
Not far off is the so-called Omphalos, the center of the whole Peloponnese, if indeed they have spoken the truth.
ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ Ὀμφαλοῦ προελθοῦσι Διονύσου σφίσιν ἱερόν ἐστιν ἀρχαῖον, ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ ἄλλο Ἴσιδος.
For those proceeding from the Omphalos, there is an ancient sanctuary of Dionysus, and there is also one of Apollo, and another of Isis.
τὸ μὲν δὴ ἄγαλμα τοῦ Διονύσου δῆλον πᾶσιν, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τὸ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος· τὸ δὲ τῆς Ἴσιδος τοῖς ἱερεῦσι θεάσασθαι μόνον ἔστι.
The image of Dionysus is visible to all, and likewise that of Apollo; but that of Isis it is permitted only for the priests to behold.
§2.13.8λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὧδε ὑπὸ Φλιασίων λόγος·
The following story is also told by the Phliasians.
Ἡρακλέα, ὅτʼ ἐκ Λιβύης ἀνεσώθη κομίζων τὰ μῆλα τὰ Ἑσπερίδων καλούμενα, ἐς Φλιοῦντα ἐλθεῖν κατὰ δή τι ἴδιον, διαιτωμένου δὲ ἐνταῦθα Οἰνέα ἐξ Αἰτωλίας ἀφικέσθαι παρʼ αὐτόν·
Heracles, when he returned safely from Libya bringing the apples called those of the Hesperides, came to Phlius for some private business; and while he was staying here, Oeneus arrived to him from Aetolia.
ἐγεγόνει δὲ τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ πρότερον ἔτι κηδεστής, τότε δὲ ἀφιγμένος εἱστία τὸν Ἡρακλέα ἢ αὐτὸς εἱστιᾶτο ὑπὸ ἐκείνου.
He had already previously become a kinsman to Heracles, and having arrived then, he either entertained Heracles or was himself entertained by him.
Κύαθον δʼ οὖν παῖδα οἰνοχόον Οἰνέως οὐκ ἀρεσθεὶς τῷ δοθέντι πώματι παίει τῶν δακτύλων ἑνὶ ἐς τὴν κεφαλήν· ἀποθανόντος δὲ αὐτίκα ὑπὸ τῆς πληγῆς Φλιασίοις ἐστὶν οἴκημα ἐς μνήμην.
At any rate, not being pleased with the drink given to him, Heracles struck Cyathus, a boy who was the cup-bearer of Oeneus, with one of his fingers on the head; and since he died immediately from the blow, there is a building for the Phliasians in memory.
τοῦτο ᾠκοδόμηται μὲν παρὰ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, ἀγάλματα δὲ λίθου πεποιημένα ἔχει, κύλικα ὀρέγοντα Ἡρακλεῖ τὸν Κύαθον.
This has been built beside the sanctuary of Apollo, and has images made of stone, representing Cyathus offering a cup to Heracles.