§7.24.1Αἰγιεῦσι δὲ ἔστι μὲν πρὸς τῇ ἀγορᾷ ναὸς Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι ἐν κοινῷ, ἔστι δὲ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ ἱερὸν Ἀρτέμιδος, τοξευούσῃ δὲ εἴκασται, καὶ Ταλθυβίου τοῦ κήρυκος τάφος·
For the Aegians there is, near the marketplace, a temple to Apollo and Artemis in common, and in the marketplace a sanctuary of Artemis, represented as an archer, and the grave of Talthybius the herald.
κέχωσται δὲ τῷ Ταλθυβίῳ καὶ ἄλλο μνῆμα ἐν Σπάρτῃ, καὶ αὐτῷ αἱ πόλεις ἐναγίζουσιν ἀμφότεραι.
Another monument has been heaped up for Talthybius in Sparta as well, and both cities make offerings to him as a hero.
§7.24.2πρὸς θαλάσσῃ δὲ Ἀφροδίτης ἱερὸν ἐν Αἰγίῳ καὶ μετʼ αὐτὸ Ποσειδῶνος, Κόρης τε πεποίηται τῆς Δήμητρος καὶ τέταρτον Ὁμαγυρίῳ Διί.
By the sea in Aegium there is a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and after it one of Poseidon, one of Core daughter of Demeter, and a fourth to Zeus Homagyrios (the Assembler).
ἐνταῦθα Διὸς καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ἐστὶ καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς ἀγάλματα·
Here there are statues of Zeus, Aphrodite, and Athena.
Ὁμαγύριος δὲ ἐγένετο τῷ Διὶ ἐπίκλησις, ὅτι Ἀγαμέμνων ἤθροισεν ἐς τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον τοὺς λόγου μάλιστα ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ἀξίους, μεθέξοντας ἐν κοινῷ βουλῆς καθʼ ὅντινα χρὴ τρόπον ἐπὶ ἀρχὴν τὴν Πριάμου στρατεύεσθαι.
The surname Homagyrios was given to Zeus because Agamemnon gathered in this place those most worthy of account in Greece, to take counsel in common in what way they ought to make war against the empire of Priam.
Ἀγαμέμνονι δὲ καὶ ἄλλα ἐστὶν ἐς ἔπαινον καὶ ὅτι τοῖς ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἀκολουθήσασι καὶ οὐδεμιᾶς ἐπελθούσης ὕστερον στρατιᾶς τήν τε Ἴλιον ἐπόρθησε καὶ ὅσαι περίοικοι πόλεις ἦσαν.
Other things also redound to the praise of Agamemnon, and especially that with those who followed him from the beginning, and without any later army arriving, he sacked Troy and all the surrounding cities.
§7.24.3ἐφεξῆς δὲ τῷ Ὁμαγυρίῳ Διὶ Παναχαιᾶς ἐστι Δήμητρος.
Next to Zeus Homagyrios is a sanctuary of Panachaean Demeter.
παρέχεται δὲ ὁ αἰγιαλός, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ Αἰγιεῦσίν ἐστι τὰ εἰρημένα, ὕδωρ ἄφθονον θεάσασθαί τε καὶ πιεῖν ἐκ πηγῆς ἡδύ.
The beach on which these mentioned sanctuaries of the Aegians stand provides abundant water, sweet to look at and to drink from a spring.
ἔστι δέ σφισι καὶ Σωτηρίας ἱερόν.
They also have a sanctuary of Soteria (Salvation).
ἰδεῖν μὲν δὴ τὸ ἄγαλμα οὐδενὶ πλὴν τῶν ἱερωμένων ἔστι, δρῶσι δὲ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα· λαμβάνοντες παρὰ τῆς θεοῦ πέμματα ἐπιχώρια ἀφιᾶσιν ἐς θάλασσαν, πέμπειν δὲ τῇ ἐν Συρακούσαις Ἀρεθούσῃ φασὶν αὐτά.
No one except the priests is allowed to see her image, but they do other things of this sort: taking local cakes from the goddess, they cast them into the sea, and say they are sending them to Arethusa in Syracuse.
§7.24.4ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλα Αἰγιεῦσιν ἀγάλματα χαλκοῦ πεποιημένα, Ζεύς τε ἡλικίαν παῖς καὶ Ἡρακλῆς, οὐδὲ οὗτος ἔχων πω γένεια, Ἀγελάδα τέχνη τοῦ Ἀργείου.
There are also other statues in Aegium made of bronze, a Zeus as a boy in age, and Heracles, this one too not yet having a beard, the work of Ageladas of Argos.
τούτοις κατὰ ἔτος ἱερεῖς αἱρετοὶ γίνονται, καὶ ἑκάτερα τῶν ἀγαλμάτων ἐπὶ ταῖς οἰκίαις μένει τοῦ ἱερωμένου.
Priests are chosen annually for these, and each of the statues remains at the house of the priest.
τὰ δὲ ἔτι παλαιότερα προεκέκριτο ἐκ τῶν παίδων ἱερᾶσθαι τῷ Διὶ ὁ νικῶν κάλλει· ἀρχομένων δὲ αὐτῷ γενείων ἐς ἄλλον παῖδα ἡ ἐπὶ τῷ κάλλει μετῄει τιμή.
In older times, the boy who won the prize for beauty was chosen from among the boys to be priest to Zeus; but when his beard began to grow, the honor of beauty passed to another boy.
ταῦτα μὲν οὕτως ἐνομίζετο· ἐς δὲ Αἴγιον καὶ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἔτι συνέδριον τὸ Ἀχαιῶν ἀθροίζεται, καθότι ἐς Θερμοπύλας τε καὶ ἐς Δελφοὺς οἱ Ἀμφικτύονες.
These were their customs; and at Aegium even in my time the assembly of the Achaeans still gathers, just as the Amphictyons meet at Thermopylae and Delphi.
§7.24.5ἰόντι δὲ ἐς τὸ πρόσω Σελινοῦς τε ποταμὸς καὶ ἀπωτέρω τεσσαράκοντα Αἰγίου σταδίοις ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ χωρίον ἐστὶν Ἑλίκη.
Going further, there is the river Selinus, and forty stades distant from Aegium, on the sea, is a place called Helice.
ἐνταῦθα ᾤκητο Ἑλίκη πόλις καὶ Ἴωσιν ἱερὸν ἁγιώτατον Ποσειδῶνος ἦν Ἑλικωνίου.
There the city of Helice once stood, and the Ionians had a most holy sanctuary of Heliconian Poseidon.
διαμεμένηκε δέ σφισι, καὶ ὡς ὑπὸ Ἀχαιῶν ἐκπεσόντες ἐς Ἀθήνας καὶ ὕστερον ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν ἐς τὰ παραθαλάσσια ἀφίκοντο τῆς Ἀσίας, σέβεσθαι Ποσειδῶνα Ἑλικώνιον· καὶ Μιλησίοις τε ἰόντι ἐπὶ τὴν πηγὴν τὴν Βιβλίδα Ποσειδῶνος πρὸ τῆς πόλεώς ἐστιν Ἑλικωνίου βωμὸς καὶ ὡσαύτως ἐν Τέῳ περίβολός τε καὶ βωμός ἐστι τῷ Ἑλικωνίῳ θέας ἄξιος.
It has remained a custom with them, even when they were expelled by the Achaeans to Athens and later from Athens reached the coastal regions of Asia, to worship Heliconian Poseidon; and for the Milesians, as you go to the spring Biblis, there is an altar of Heliconian Poseidon before the city, and likewise in Teos there is an enclosure and an altar to the Heliconian worthy of seeing.
§7.24.6ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ὁμήρῳ πεποιημένα ἐς Ἑλίκην καὶ τὸν Ἑλικώνιον Ποσειδῶνα.
There are also verses composed by Homer concerning Helice and Heliconian Poseidon.
χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον Ἀχαιοῖς τοῖς ἐνταῦθα, ἱκέτας ἄνδρας ἀποστήσασιν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ ἀποκτείνασιν, οὐκ ἐμέλλησε τὸ μήνιμα ἐκ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος, ἀλλὰ σεισμὸς ἐς τὴν χώραν σφίσιν αὐτίκα κατασκήψας τῶν τε οἰκοδομημάτων τὴν κατασκευὴν καὶ ὁμοῦ τῇ κατασκευῇ καὶ αὐτὸ τῆς πόλεως τὸ ἔδαφος ἀφανὲς ἐς τοὺς ἔπειτα ἐποίησε.
But at a later time, when the Achaeans of this place dragged suppliants away from the sanctuary and killed them, the wrath of Poseidon was not delayed, but an earthquake immediately descending upon their land made both the structure of their buildings and, along with the structure, the very ground of the city invisible for future generations.
§7.24.7τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα ἐπὶ τοῖς σεισμοῖς, ὅσοι μεγέθει τε ὑπερήρκασι καὶ ἐπὶ μήκιστον διικνοῦνται τῆς γῆς, προσημαίνειν ὁ θεὸς κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ὡς τὸ ἐπίπαν εἴωθεν—ἢ γὰρ ἐπομβρίαι συνεχεῖς ἢ αὐχμοὶ πρὸ τῶν σεισμῶν συμβαίνουσιν ἐπὶ χρόνον πλείονα, καὶ ὁ ἀὴρ παρὰ τὴν ἑκάστοτε τοῦ ἔτους ὥραν χειμῶνός τε γίνεται καυματωδέστερος καὶ ἐν θέρει μετὰ ἀχλύος μᾶλλον ὁ κύκλος παρέχεται τοῦ ἡλίου τὴν χρόαν παρὰ τὸ εἰωθὸς ἤτοι ἐς τὸ ἐρυθρότερον ἢ καὶ ἡσυχῇ ῥέπουσαν ἐς τὸ μελάντερον·
Now, as for other matters regarding earthquakes, as many as have exceeded in size and extend over the longest stretch of the earth, the god is accustomed generally to give signs beforehand in the same way—for either continuous heavy rains or droughts happen before the earthquakes for a rather long time, and the air, contrary to the season of the year at the time, becomes hotter in winter, and in summer, with a mist, the disk of the sun presents a color contrary to what is customary, either rather red or inclining slightly to blacker;