§2.25.1ἡ δʼ ἐς Μαντίνειαν ἄγουσα ἐξ Ἄργους ἐστὶν οὐχ ἥπερ καὶ ἐπὶ Τεγέαν, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τῶν πυλῶν τῶν πρὸς τῇ Δειράδι.
The road leading from Argos to Mantinea is not the same as the one to Tegea, but starts from the gates near Deiras.
ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ὁδοῦ ταύτης ἱερὸν διπλοῦν πεποίηται, καὶ πρὸς ἡλίου δύνοντος ἔσοδον καὶ κατὰ ἀνατολὰς ἑτέραν ἔχον.
On this road is built a double sanctuary, having one entrance towards the setting sun and another towards the east.
κατὰ μὲν δὴ τοῦτο Ἀφροδίτης κεῖται ξόανον, πρὸς δὲ ἡλίου δυσμὰς Ἄρεως·
On this side (the east) lies a wooden image of Aphrodite, and towards the setting sun (the west) that of Ares.
εἶναι δὲ τὰ ἀγάλματα· Πολυνείκους λέγουσιν ἀναθήματα καὶ Ἀργείων, ὅσοι τιμωρήσοντες αὐτῷ συνεστρατεύοντο.
They say that the images are the dedications of Polynices and of those Argives who joined him in the campaign to help him.
§2.25.2προελθοῦσι δὲ αὐτόθεν διαβάντων ποταμὸν χείμαρρον Χάραδρον καλούμενον ἔστιν Οἰνόη, τὸ ὄνομα ἔχουσα, ὡς Ἀργεῖοί φασιν, ἀπὸ Οἰνέως.
For those who have gone on from there, after they have crossed a winter torrent called Charadrus, there is Oenoe, which has its name, as the Argives say, from Oeneus.
Οἰνέα γὰρ τὸν βασιλεύσαντα ἐν Αἰτωλίᾳ λέγουσιν ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀγρίου παίδων ἐκβληθέντα τῆς ἀρχῆς παρὰ Διομήδην ἐς Ἄργος ἀφικέσθαι.
For they say that Oeneus, who had reigned in Aetolia, was driven from his kingdom by the sons of Agrius and came to Diomedes at Argos.
ὁ δὲ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἐτιμώρησεν αὐτῷ στρατεύσας ἐς τὴν Καλυδωνίαν, παραμένειν δὲ οὐκ ἔφη οἱ δύνασθαι· συνακολουθεῖν δέ, εἰ βούλοιτο, ἐς Ἄργος ἐκεῖνον ἐκέλευεν.
Diomedes helped him in other matters by making a campaign into Calydonia, but said he was unable to remain with him, and urged him, if he wished, to follow him to Argos.
ἀφικόμενον δὲ τά τε ἄλλα ἐθεράπευεν, ὡς πατρὸς θεραπεύειν πατέρα εἰκὸς ἦν, καὶ ἀποθανόντα ἔθαψεν ἐνταῦθα.
When Oeneus arrived, Diomedes cared for him in all other ways, as it was fitting to care for the father of one's father, and when he died, buried him here.
ἀπὸ τούτου μὲν Οἰνόη χωρίον ἐστὶν Ἀργείοις·
From him, indeed, the place is called Oenoe by the Argives.
§2.25.3ὑπὲρ δὲ Οἰνόης ὄρος ἐστὶν Ἀρτεμίσιον καὶ ἱερὸν Ἀρτέμιδος ἐπὶ κορυφῇ τοῦ ὄρους.
Above Oenoe is Mount Artemision, and there is a sanctuary of Artemis on the peak of the mountain.
ἐν τούτῳ δέ εἰσι τῷ ὄρει καὶ αἱ πηγαὶ τοῦ Ἰνάχου· πηγαὶ γὰρ δὴ τῷ ὄντι εἰσὶν αὐτῷ, τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ οὐκ ἐπὶ πολὺ ἐξικνεῖται τῆς γῆς.
In this mountain are also the springs of the Inachus; for there are indeed in reality springs for it, but the water does not flow very far along the land.
§2.25.4ταύτῃ μὲν δὴ θέας οὐδὲν ἔτι ἦν ἄξιον· ἑτέρα δὲ ὁδὸς ἀπὸ τῶν πυλῶν τῶν πρὸς τῇ Δειράδι ἐστὶν ἐπὶ Λύρκειαν.
In this direction indeed there was nothing more worth seeing; but there is another road from the gates near Deiras to Lyrceia.
ἐς τοῦτο λέγεται τὸ χωρίον Λυγκέα ἀποσωθῆναι τῶν πεντήκοντα ἀδελφῶν μόνον· καὶ ἡνίκα ἐσώθη, πυρσὸν ἀνέσχεν ἐντεῦθεν.
To this place, it is said, Lynceus alone of the fifty brothers escaped in safety; and when he was saved, he raised a torch from here.
συνέκειτο δὲ ἄρα αὐτῷ πρὸς τὴν Ὑπερμήστραν ἀνασχεῖν τὸν πυρσόν, ἢν διαφυγὼν Δαναὸν ἐς ἀσφαλὲς ἀφίκηταί ποι· τὴν δὲ καὶ αὐτὴν ἀνάψαι λέγουσιν ἕτερον ἀπὸ τῆς Λαρίσης, δῆλα καὶ ταύτην ποιοῦσαν ὅτι ἐν οὐδενὶ οὐδὲ αὐτὴ καθέστηκεν ἔτι κινδύνῳ.
It had been agreed between him and Hypermnestra that he should raise the torch if, escaping Danaus, he should reach safety anywhere; and they say that she herself also lit another from Larissa, making it clear that she herself also was no longer in any danger.
ἐπὶ τούτῳ δὲ Ἀργεῖοι κατὰ ἔτος ἕκαστον πυρσῶν ἑορτὴν ἄγουσι.
On this account, the Argives hold a festival of torches every year.
§2.25.5τὸ δὲ χωρίον τότε μὲν Λυγκεία ἐκαλεῖτο, οἰκήσαντος δὲ ὕστερον ἐν αὐτῷ Λύρκου—παῖς δὲ ἦν Ἄβαντος νόθος— τὸ ὄνομα διʼ αὐτὸν ἔσχηκε· καὶ ἄλλα τέ ἐστιν οὐκ ἀξιόλογα ἐν τοῖς ἐρειπίοις καὶ εἰκὼν ἐπὶ στήλῃ τοῦ Λύρκου.
The place was then called Lynceia, but later, when Lyrcus—who was a bastard son of Abas—dwelt in it, it got its name from him; and there are other things of no great account among the ruins, and a portrait of Lyrcus upon a stele.
ἐς μὲν δὴ ταύτην ἐστὶν ἐξ Ἄργους ἑξήκοντα μάλιστά που στάδια, ἐκ δὲ Λυρκείας ἕτερα τοσαῦτα ἐς Ὀρνεάς.
From Argos to this place is about sixty stades, and from Lyrceia there is another equal distance to Orneae.
Λυρκείας μὲν δὴ πόλεως, ἅτε ἠρημωμένης ἤδη κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλήνων στρατείαν ἐπὶ Ἴλιον, οὐκ ἐποιήσατο Ὅμηρος ἐν καταλόγῳ μνήμην· Ὀρνεὰς δέ—ἔτι γὰρ ᾠκοῦντο—, ὥσπερ τῷ τόπῳ τῆς Ἀργείας ἔκειντο, οὕτω καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔπεσι προτέρας ἢ Φλιοῦντά τε καὶ Σικυῶνα κατέλεξεν.
Of the city of Lyrceia indeed, since it was already deserted at the time of the Greek expedition against Ilion, Homer made no mention in the Catalogue; but Orneae—for it was still inhabited—just as it lay in the territory of Argolis, so also in his verses he catalogued it before both Phlius and Sicyon.