§2.38.1ἐκ Λέρνης δὲ ἰοῦσιν ἐς Τημένιον—τὸ δὲ Τημένιόν ἐστιν Ἀργείων, ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ Τημένου τοῦ Ἀριστομάχου· καταλαβὼν γὰρ καὶ ἐχυρωσάμενος τὸ χωρίον ἐπολέμει σὺν τοῖς Δωριεῦσιν αὐτόθεν τὸν πρὸς Τισαμενὸν καὶ Ἀχαιοὺς πόλεμον—ἐς τοῦτο οὖν τὸ Τημένιον ἰοῦσιν ὅ τε Φρίξος ποταμὸς ἐκδίδωσιν ἐς θάλασσαν καὶ Ποσειδῶνος ἱερὸν ἐν Τημενίῳ πεποίηται καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ἕτερον καὶ μνῆμά ἐστι Τημένου τιμὰς ἔχον παρὰ Δωριέων τῶν ἐν Ἄργει.
For those going from Lerna to Temenium—and Temenium belongs to the Argives, having been named after Temenus, the son of Aristomachus; for he seized and fortified the place, and from there, along with the Dorians, carried on the war against Tisamenus and the Achaeans—for those going, then, to this Temenium, the river Phrixus empties into the sea, and in Temenium there is built a sanctuary of Poseidon, and another of Aphrodite, and there is a tomb of Temenus which receives honors from the Dorians in Argos.
§2.38.2Τημενίου δὲ ἀπέχει Ναυπλία πεντήκοντα ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν σταδίους, τὰ μὲν ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἔρημος, οἰκιστὴς δὲ ἐγένετο αὐτῆς Ναύπλιος Ποσειδῶνος λεγόμενος καὶ Ἀμυμώνης εἶναι.
Nauplia is distant, in my opinion, fifty stades from Temenium, which in our time is deserted, but its founder was Nauplius, said to be the son of Poseidon and Amymone.
λείπεται δὲ καὶ τειχῶν ἔτι ἐρείπια, καὶ Ποσειδῶνος ἱερὸν καὶ λιμένες εἰσὶν ἐν Ναυπλίᾳ καὶ πηγὴ Κάναθος καλουμένη· ἐνταῦθα τὴν Ἥραν φασὶν Ἀργεῖοι κατὰ ἔτος λουμένην παρθένον γίνεσθαι.
There still remain ruins of the walls, and there is a sanctuary of Poseidon, and harbors in Nauplia, and a spring called Kanathos; there the Argives say that Hera, bathing every year, becomes a virgin.
§2.38.3οὗτος μὲν δή σφισιν ἐκ τελετῆς, ἣν ἄγουσι τῇ Ἥρᾳ, λόγος τῶν ἀπορρήτων ἐστίν· τὰ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Ναυπλίᾳ λεγόμενα ἐς τὸν ὄνον, ὡς ἐπιφαγὼν ἀμπέλου κλῆμα ἀφθονώτερον ἐς τὸ μέλλον ἀπέφηνε τὸν καρπόν—καὶ ὄνος σφίσιν ἐν πέτρᾳ πεποιημένος διὰ τοῦτό ἐστιν ἅτε ἀμπέλων διδάξας τομήν—, παρίημι οὐκ ἀξιόλογα ἡγούμενος.
This indeed is an esoteric story of theirs, derived from the ritual which they celebrate for Hera; but what is said by the people of Nauplia about the donkey, how by eating down a vine-shoot it made the fruit more abundant for the future—and because of this they have a donkey carved in rock, as having taught the pruning of vines—I pass over, regarding it as not worth mentioning.
§2.38.4ἔστι δὲ ἐκ Λέρνης καὶ ἑτέρα παρʼ αὐτὴν ὁδὸς τὴν θάλασσαν ἐπὶ χωρίον ὃ Γενέσιον ὀνομάζουσι· πρὸς θαλάσσῃ δὲ τοῦ Γενεσίου Ποσειδῶνος ἱερόν ἐστιν οὐ μέγα.
There is also another road from Lerna, along the sea itself, to a place they name Genesium; and by the sea at Genesium is a small sanctuary of Poseidon.
τούτου δʼ ἔχεται χωρίον ἄλλο Ἀπόβαθμοι· γῆς δὲ ἐνταῦθα πρῶτον τῆς Ἀργολίδος Δαναὸν σὺν ταῖς παισὶν ἀποβῆναι λέγουσιν.
Next to this is another place, Apobathmoi; here they say Danaus first landed in the Argolic territory with his daughters.
ἐντεῦθεν διελθοῦσιν Ἀνιγραῖα καλούμενα ὁδὸν καὶ στενὴν καὶ ἄλλως δύσβατον, ἔστιν ἐν ἀριστερᾷ μὲν καθήκουσα ἐπὶ θάλασσαν καὶ δένδρα—ἐλαίας μάλιστα—ἀγαθὴ τρέφειν γῆ, ἰόντι §2.38.5δὲ ἄνω πρὸς τὴν ἤπειρον ἀπʼ αὐτῆς χωρίον ἐστίν, ἔνθα δὴ ἐμαχέσαντο ὑπὲρ τῆς γῆς ταύτης λογάδες Ἀργείων τριακόσιοι πρὸς ἄνδρας Λακεδαιμονίων ἀριθμόν τε ἴσους καὶ ἐπιλέκτους ὁμοίως.
From here, for those who pass through the road called Anigraea, which is narrow and otherwise difficult to traverse, there is on the left land stretching down to the sea, fertile for nurturing trees—especially olives—and for one going upwards toward the interior from it, there is a place where indeed three hundred select men of the Argives fought against Lacedaemonian men of equal number and similarly chosen.
ἀποθανόντων δὲ ἁπάντων πλὴν ἑνὸς Σπαρτιάτου καὶ δυοῖν Ἀργείων, τοῖς μὲν ἀποθανοῦσιν ἐχώσθησαν ἐνταῦθα οἱ τάφοι, τὴν χώραν δὲ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι γενομένου πανδημεί σφισιν ἀγῶνος πρὸς Ἀργείους κρατήσαντες βεβαίως αὐτοί τε παραυτίκα ἐκαρποῦντο καὶ ὕστερον Αἰγινήταις ἔδοσαν ἐκπεσοῦσιν ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων ἐκ τῆς νήσου.
When all had died except for one Spartan and two Argives, graves were heaped up here for those who died; and the Lacedaemonians, having won a decisive victory in a full-scale battle against the Argives that took place later, harvested the land immediately themselves and afterwards gave it to the Aeginetans when they were expelled from their island by the Athenians.
τὰ δὲ ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ τὴν Θυρεᾶτιν ἐνέμοντο Ἀργεῖοι· φασὶ δὲ ἀνασώσασθαι δίκῃ νικήσαντες.
In my time, the Argives occupied the Thyreatis, and they say they recovered it by winning a lawsuit.
§2.38.6ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν πολυανδρίων ἰόντι Ἀνθήνη τέ ἐστιν, ἣν Αἰγινῆταί ποτε ᾤκησαν, καὶ ἑτέρα κώμη Νηρίς, τρίτη δὲ Εὔα μεγίστη τῶν κωμῶν· καὶ ἱερὸν τοῦ Πολεμοκράτους ἐστὶν ἐν ταύτῃ.
For one going from the graves, there is both Anthene, which the Aeginetans once inhabited, and another village Neris, and a third, Eva, the largest of the villages; and there is a sanctuary of Polemocrates in this latter.
ὁ δὲ Πολεμοκράτης ἐστὶ καὶ οὗτος Μαχάονος υἱός, ἀδελφὸς δὲ Ἀλεξάνορος, καὶ ἰᾶται τοὺς ταύτῃ καὶ τιμὰς παρὰ τῶν προσοίκων ἔχει.
This Polemocrates is also a son of Machaon, and a brother of Alexanor, and he heals the people here and has honors from the neighbors.
§2.38.7ἀνατείνει δὲ ὑπὲρ τὰς κώμας ὄρος Πάρνων, καὶ Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ πρὸς Ἀργείους ὅροι καὶ Τεγεάτας εἰσίν· ἑστήκασι δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖς ὅροις Ἑρμαῖ λίθου, καὶ τοῦ χωρίου τὸ ὄνομά ἐστιν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν.
Above the villages stretches Mount Parnon, and on it are the boundaries of the Lacedaemonians toward the Argives and the Tegeans; and stone Herms stand on the boundaries, and the name of the place is derived from them.
ποταμὸς δὲ καλούμενος Τάναος—εἷς γὰρ δὴ οὗτος ἐκ τοῦ Πάρνωνος κάτεισι—ῥέων διὰ τῆς Ἀργείας ἐκδίδωσιν ἐς τὸν Θυρεάτην κόλπον.
And a river called Tanaus—for indeed this is the only one that comes down from Mount Parnon—flowing through the Argolic territory, empties into the Gulf of Thyrea.