§3.16.6Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ καὶ Λυκούργῳ τῷ θεμένῳ τοὺς νόμους οἷα δὴ θεῷ πεποιήκασι καὶ τούτῳ ἱερόν.
The Lacedaemonians indeed have made a sanctuary also for Lycurgus, who established the laws, just as for a god.
τάφος δέ ἐστιν ὄπισθε μὲν τοῦ ναοῦ τῷ Λυκούργου παιδὶ Εὐκόσμῳ, πρὸς δὲ τῷ βωμῷ Λαθρίας καὶ Ἀναξάνδρας· αἱ δὲ αὐταί τε ἦσαν δίδυμοι καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ σφᾶς οἱ Ἀριστοδήμου παῖδες ἅτε ὄντες καὶ αὐτοὶ δίδυμοι λαμβάνουσι, θυγατέρες δὲ ἦσαν Θερσάνδρου τοῦ Ἀγαμηδίδα, βασιλεύοντος μὲν Κλεωναίων, τετάρτου δὲ ἀπογόνου Κτησίππου τοῦ Ἡρακλέους.
Behind the temple there is a tomb for Eucosmus, the son of Lycurgus, and near the altar for Lathria and Anaxandra; these women were themselves twins, and on this account the sons of Aristodemus, being themselves also twins, married them; they were daughters of Thersander, the son of Agamedidas, who was king of the Cleonaeans, and the fourth descendant of Ctesippus, the son of Heracles.
τοῦ ναοῦ δὲ ἀπαντικρὺ μνῆμα Θεοπόμπου τοῦ Νικάνδρου, τὸ δὲ Εὐρυβιάδου Λακεδαιμονίων τριήρεσιν ἐπʼ Ἀρτεμισίῳ καὶ Σαλαμῖνι ναυμαχήσαντος πρὸς Μήδους, πλησίον δὲ Ἀστραβάκου καλούμενόν ἐστιν ἡρῷον.
Opposite the temple is the monument of Theopompus, the son of Nicander, and that of Eurybiades, who commanded the Lacedaemonian triremes in the sea-fights against the Medes at Artemisium and Salamis, and near it is the hero-shrine called that of Astrabacus.
§3.16.7τὸ δὲ χωρίον τὸ ἐπονομαζόμενον Λιμναῖον Ὀρθίας ἱερόν ἐστιν Ἀρτέμιδος.
The place named Limnaeum is the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia.
τὸ ξόανον δὲ ἐκεῖνο εἶναι λέγουσιν ὅ ποτε Ὀρέστης καὶ Ἰφιγένεια ἐκ τῆς Ταυρικῆς ἐκκλέπτουσιν· ἐς δὲ τὴν σφετέραν Λακεδαιμόνιοι κομισθῆναί φασιν Ὀρέστου καὶ ἐνταῦθα βασιλεύοντος.
They say that the wooden image is that which once Orestes and Iphigenia stole from Taurica; and the Lacedaemonians say that it was brought to their own land when Orestes was king also here.
καί μοι εἰκότα λέγειν μᾶλλόν τι δοκοῦσιν ἢ Ἀθηναῖοι.
And they seem to me to speak somewhat more plausibly than the Athenians.
ποίῳ γὰρ δὴ λόγῳ κατέλιπεν ἂν ἐν Βραυρῶνι Ἰφιγένεια τὸ ἄγαλμα;
For by what reason would Iphigenia have left the statue behind in Brauron?
ἢ πῶς, ἡνίκα Ἀθηναῖοι τὴν χώραν ἐκλιπεῖν παρεσκευάζοντο, οὐκ ἐσέθεντο καὶ τοῦτο ἐς τὰς ναῦς;
Or how, when the Athenians were preparing to abandon their country, did they not put this also into their ships?
§3.16.8καίτοι διαμεμένηκεν ἔτι καὶ νῦν τηλικοῦτο ὄνομα τῇ Ταυρικῇ θεῷ, ὥστε ἀμφισβητοῦσι μὲν Καππάδοκες καὶ οἱ τὸν Εὔξεινον οἰκοῦντες τὸ ἄγαλμα εἶναι παρὰ σφίσιν, ἀμφισβητοῦσι δὲ καὶ Λυδῶν οἷς ἐστιν Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερὸν Ἀναιίτιδος.
And yet so great a renown has remained even until now to the Tauric goddess, that the Cappadocians and those who dwell on the Euxine dispute that the statue is among them, and likewise also those of the Lydians who have a sanctuary of Artemis Anaitis.
Ἀθηναίοις δὲ ἄρα παρώφθη γενόμενον λάφυρον τῷ Μήδῳ· τὸ γὰρ ἐκ Βραυρῶνος ἐκομίσθη τε ἐς Σοῦσα καὶ ὕστερον Σελεύκου δόντος Σύροι Λαοδικεῖς ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἔχουσι.
But the Athenians, it seems, overlooked it becoming a spoil to the Mede; for that from Brauron was carried to Susa, and later, Seleucus having given it, the Syrian Laodiceans possess it in our time.
§3.16.9μαρτύρια δέ μοι καὶ τάδε, τὴν ἐν Λακεδαίμονι Ὀρθίαν τὸ ἐκ τῶν βαρβάρων εἶναι ξόανον· τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ Ἀστράβακος καὶ Ἀλώπεκος οἱ Ἴρβου τοῦ Ἀμφισθένους τοῦ Ἀμφικλέους τοῦ Ἄγιδος τὸ ἄγαλμα εὑρόντες αὐτίκα παρεφρόνησαν· τοῦτο δὲ οἱ Λιμνᾶται Σπαρτιατῶν καὶ Κυνοσουρεῖς καὶ οἱ ἐκ Μεσόας τε καὶ Πιτάνης θύοντες τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι ἐς διαφοράν, ἀπὸ δὲ αὐτῆς καὶ ἐς φόνους προήχθησαν, ἀποθανόντων δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ βωμῷ πολλῶν νόσος ἔφθειρε τοὺς λοιπούς.
And I have also these as proofs that the Orthia in Lacedaemon is the wooden image from the barbarians: on the one hand, Astrabacus and Alopecus, the sons of Irbus, son of Amphisthenes, son of Amphicles, son of Agis, having found the statue, immediately became mad; on the other hand, the Limnatae among the Spartans, and the Cynosureans, and those from Mesoa and Pitane, while sacrificing to Artemis, fell into a quarrel, and from it were led even to bloodshed, and when many had died at the altar, a disease destroyed the rest.
§3.16.10καί σφισιν ἐπὶ τούτῳ γίνεται λόγιον αἵματι ἀνθρώπων τὸν βωμὸν αἱμάσσειν· θυομένου δὲ ὅντινα ὁ κλῆρος ἐπελάμβανε, Λυκοῦργος μετέβαλεν ἐς τὰς ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐφήβοις μάστιγας, ἐμπίπλαταί τε οὕτως ἀνθρώπων αἵματι ὁ βωμός.
And on this account an oracle was given to them to stain the altar with human blood; and while he on whom the lot fell was being sacrificed, Lycurgus changed the custom to the whipping of the youths, and thus the altar is filled with human blood.
ἡ δὲ ἱέρεια τὸ ξόανον ἔχουσά σφισιν ἐφέστηκε· τὸ δέ ἐστιν ἄλλως μὲν κοῦφον ὑπὸ σμικρότητος, ἢν δὲ οἱ §3.16.11μαστιγοῦντές ποτε ὑποφειδόμενοι παίωσι κατὰ ἐφήβου κάλλος ἢ ἀξίωμα, τότε ἤδη τῇ γυναικὶ τὸ ξόανον γίνεται βαρὺ καὶ οὐκέτι εὔφορον, ἡ δὲ ἐν αἰτίᾳ τοὺς μαστιγοῦντας ποιεῖται καὶ πιέζεσθαι διʼ αὐτούς φησιν.
And the priestess stands by them holding the wooden image; and it is otherwise light because of its small size, but if those who whip, ever sparing their blows, strike gently on account of a youth's beauty or rank, then indeed the wooden image becomes heavy to the woman and no longer easy to carry, and she accuses the whippers and says she is weighed down because of them.
οὕτω τῷ ἀγάλματι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ταυρικῇ θυσιῶν ἐμμεμένηκεν ἀνθρώπων αἵματι ἥδεσθαι·
Thus to the statue, from the sacrifices in Taurica, it has remained habitual to delight in human blood.
καλοῦσι δὲ οὐκ Ὀρθίαν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ Λυγοδέσμαν τὴν αὐτήν, ὅτι ἐν θάμνῳ λύγων εὑρέθη, περιειληθεῖσα δὲ ἡ λύγος ἐποίησε τὸ ἄγαλμα ὀρθόν.
And they call the same goddess not only Orthia but also Lygodesma, because she was found in a thicket of willows, and the willow wrapping around her made the statue upright.