§2.34.7σταδίους δὲ ὀγδοήκοντα ἀπέχει μάλιστα ἄκρα Σκυλλαῖον ἀπὸ τῆς Νίσου καλουμένη θυγατρός.
The cape called Scyllaeum, named after the daughter of Nisus, is about eighty stades distant.
ὡς γὰρ δὴ τὴν Νίσαιαν ὁ Μίνως καὶ τὰ Μέγαρα εἷλεν ἐκείνης προδούσης, οὔτε γυναῖκα ἕξειν αὐτὴν ἔτι ἔφασκε καὶ προσέταξε τοῖς Κρησὶν ἐκβάλλειν τῆς νεώς· ἀποθανοῦσαν δὲ ἀπέρριψεν ἐς τὴν ἄκραν ταύτην ὁ κλύδων.
For when Minos took Nisaea and Megara because she had betrayed them, he declared that he would no longer have her as his wife and ordered the Cretans to cast her out of the ship; and when she was dead, the waves cast her up on this cape.
τάφον δὲ οὐκ ἀποφαίνουσιν αὐτῆς, ἀλλὰ περιοφθῆναι τὸν νεκρόν φασι διαφορηθέντα ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκ θαλάσσης ὀρνίθων. §2.34.8ἀπὸ δὲ Σκυλλαίου πλέοντι ὡς ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ἄκρα τέ ἐστιν ἑτέρα Βουκέφαλα καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἄκραν νῆσοι, πρώτη μὲν Ἁλιοῦσσα—παρέχεται δὲ αὕτη λιμένα ἐνορμίσασθαι ναυσὶν ἐπιτήδειον—, μετὰ δὲ Πιτυοῦσσα, τρίτη δὲ ἣν Ἀριστερὰν ὀνομάζουσι.
They do not point out any tomb of hers, but they say that her body was left to be torn to pieces by the sea-birds.\n As you sail from Scyllaeum toward the city, there is another cape, Boucephala, and after the cape there are islands, first Halioussa—which affords a harbour suitable for ships to anchor in—and after it Pityoussa, and the third they call Aristera.
ταύτας δὲ παραπλεύσαντί ἐστιν αὖθις ἄκρα Κωλυεργία ἀνέχουσα ἐκ τῆς ἠπείρου, μετὰ δὲ αὐτὴν νῆσος Τρίκρανα καλουμένη καὶ ὄρος ἐς θάλασσαν ἀπὸ τῆς Πελοποννήσου προβεβλημένον Βούπορθμος.
As you sail past these, there is again a cape, Colyergeia, projecting from the mainland, and after it an island called Tricrana, and a mountain projecting into the sea from the Peloponnese, Bouporthmus.
ἐν Βουπόρθμῳ δὲ πεποίηται μὲν ἱερὸν Δήμητρος καὶ τῆς παιδός, πεποίηται δὲ Ἀθηνᾶς· §2.34.9ἐπίκλησις δέ ἐστι τῇ θεῷ Προμαχόρμα.
On Bouporthmus is built a sanctuary of Demeter and her daughter, and also one of Athena;\n the surname of the goddess is Promachorma.
πρόκειται δὲ Βουπόρθμου νῆσος Ἀπεροπία καλουμένη, τῆς δὲ Ἀπεροπίας ἀφέστηκεν οὐ πολὺ ἑτέρα νῆσος Ὑδρέα.
Off Bouporthmus lies an island called Aperopia, and not far from Aperopia is another island, Hydrea.
μετὰ ταύτην αἰγιαλός τε παρήκει τῆς ἠπείρου μηνοειδὴς καὶ ἀκτὴ μετὰ τὸν αἰγιαλὸν ἐπὶ Ποσείδιον, ἐκ θαλάσσης μὲν ἀρχομένη τῆς πρὸς ἀνατολάς, προήκουσα δὲ ὡς ἐπὶ τὴν ἑσπέραν· ἔχει δὲ καὶ λιμένας ἐν αὑτῇ.
After this a crescent-shaped shore of the mainland extends, and after the shore a peninsula to Poseidium, beginning from the sea on the east and projecting toward the west; it also has harbours in itself.
μῆκος μὲν δὴ τῆς ἀκτῆς ἐστιν ἑπτά που στάδια, πλάτος δὲ ᾗ πλατυτάτη σταδίων τριῶν οὐ πλέον. §2.34.10ἐνταῦθα ἡ προτέρα πόλις τοῖς Ἑρμιονεῦσιν ἦν.
The length of the peninsula is about seven stades, and the width where it is widest is not more than three stades.\n Here was the former city of the Hermionians.
ἔστι δέ σφισι καὶ νῦν ἔτι ἱερὰ αὐτόθι, Ποσειδῶνος μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀκτῆς τῇ ἀρχῇ, προελθοῦσι δὲ ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἐς τὰ μετέωρα ναὸς Ἀθηνᾶς, παρὰ δὲ αὐτῷ σταδίου θεμέλια· ἐν δὲ αὐτῷ τοὺς Τυνδάρεω παῖδας ἀγωνίσασθαι λέγουσιν.
They still have sanctuaries there even now: one of Poseidon at the beginning of the peninsula, and as you go up from the sea to the high ground, a temple of Athena, and beside it the foundations of a stadium; in it they say the sons of Tyndareus competed.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἕτερον οὐ μέγα τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερόν, ὁ δὲ ὄροφος κατερρύηκεν αὐτῷ.
There is also another sanctuary of Athena, not large, whose roof has fallen in.
καὶ Ἡλίῳ ναὸς καὶ ἄλλος Χάρισιν, ὁ δὲ Σαράπιδι ᾠκοδόμηται καὶ Ἴσιδι· καὶ περίβολοι μεγάλων λίθων λογάδων εἰσίν, ἐντὸς δὲ αὐτῶν ἱερὰ δρῶσιν ἀπόρρητα Δήμητρι. §2.34.11τοσαῦτα μὲν Ἑρμιονεῦσίν ἐστιν ἐνταῦθα· ἡ δὲ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν πόλις ἀπέχει μὲν τῆς ἄκρας, ἐφʼ ᾗ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος τὸ ἱερόν, τέσσαρας μάλιστα σταδίους, κειμένη δὲ ἐν ὁμαλῷ τὰ πρῶτα ἠρέμα ἐς πρόσαντες ἄνεισι, τὸ δέ ἐστιν ἤδη τοῦ Πρωνός·
There is also a temple of Helius, and another of the Graces, and one has been built for Sarapis and Isis; and there are enclosures of large selected stones, within which they perform secret rites for Demeter.\n So many are the things the Hermionians have there; but the city of our day is about four stades distant from the cape on which is the sanctuary of Poseidon, lying first on level ground and then gently rising to a slope, which is now part of Pron; for they call this mountain Pron.
Πρῶνα γὰρ τὸ ὄρος τοῦτο ὀνομάζουσι. τεῖχος μὲν δὴ περὶ πᾶσαν τὴν Ἑρμιόνα ἕστηκε· τὰ δὲ ἐς συγγραφὴν καὶ ἄλλα παρείχετο καὶ ὧν αὐτὸς ποιήσασθαι μάλιστα ἠξίωσα μνήμην.
Indeed, a wall stands around the whole of Hermione; other things also presented themselves for writing, and those of which I myself deemed most worthy to make mention.
Ἀφροδίτης ναός ἐστιν ἐπίκλησιν Ποντίας καὶ Λιμενίας τῆς αὐτῆς, ἄγαλμα δὲ λευκοῦ λίθου μεγέθει τε μέγα καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ τέχνῃ θέας ἄξιον. §2.34.12καὶ ναὸς ἕτερός ἐστιν Ἀφροδίτης· αὕτη καὶ ἄλλας ἔχει παρὰ Ἑρμιονέων τιμάς, καὶ ταῖς παρθένοις καὶ ἢν γυνὴ χηρεύουσα παρὰ ἄνδρα μέλλῃ φοιτᾶν, ἁπάσαις πρὸ γάμου θύειν καθέστηκεν ἐνταῦθα.
There is a temple of of Aphrodite surnamed Pontia and Limenia, both being the same goddess, and the statue is of white marble, large in size and worthy of seeing for its craftsmanship.\n And there is another temple of Aphrodite; she has other honours as well from the Hermionians, and it is established for all virgins, and for any widow who is about to go to a husband, to sacrifice here before marriage.
Δήμητρος δὲ ἱερὰ πεποίηται Θερμασίας, τὸ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖς πρὸς τὴν Τροιζηνίαν ὅροις, ὡς ἐστὶν εἰρημένον ἤδη μοι, τὸ δὲ καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ πόλει.
There are also sanctuaries built of Demeter Thermasia, one on the borders toward the Troezenian land, as I have already mentioned, and the other also in the city itself.