§7.26.8οἶδα καὶ οἴκημα ἐν Αἰγείρᾳ θεασάμενος· ἄγαλμα ἦν ἐν τῷ οἰκήματι Τύχης, τὸ κέρας φέρουσα τὸ Ἀμαλθείας· παρὰ δὲ αὐτὴν Ἔρως πτερὰ ἔχων ἐστίν, ἐθέλει δὲ σημαίνειν ὅτι ἀνθρώποις καὶ τὰ ἐς ἔρωτα τύχῃ μᾶλλον ἢ ὑπὸ κάλλους κατορθοῦται.
I know also that I saw a building in Aegeira; there was an image of Fortune (Tyche) in the building, carrying the horn of Amaltheia; and beside her is Eros with wings, which is intended to signify that for humans even the affairs of love are succeeded by fortune rather than by beauty.
ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν Πινδάρου τά τε ἄλλα πείθομαι τῇ ᾠδῇ καὶ Μοιρῶν τε εἶναι μίαν τὴν Τύχην καὶ ὑπὲρ τὰς ἀδελφάς τι ἰσχύειν·
I, then, believe Pindar's ode in other respects and that Fortune is one of the Fates (Moirai) and is more powerful in some way than her sisters.
§7.26.9ἐν Αἰγείρᾳ δὲ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ οἰκήματι ἀνήρ τε ἤδη γέρων ἴσα καὶ ὀδυρόμενος καὶ γυναῖκες τρεῖς ἀφαιρούμεναι ψέλιά εἰσι καὶ ἴσοι νεανίσκοι ταῖς γυναιξί, ἐνδεδυκὼς δὲ θώρακα εἷς.
In Aegeira, in this building, there are a man already old, just like one mourning, and three women taking off their armlets, and young men equal in number to the women, one of whom has put on a breastplate.
τοῦτόν φασιν Ἀχαιοῖς γενομένου πολέμου μαχεσάμενον ἀνδρειότατα Αἰγειρατῶν τελευτῆσαι, καὶ αὐτοῦ τὸν θάνατον οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν οἴκαδε ἀπήγγειλαν· καὶ τοῦδε ἕνεκα αἵ τε ἀδελφαὶ διὰ τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ πένθος ἀποκοσμοῦνται καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἐπονομάζουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι Συμπαθῆ, ἅτε ἐλεεινὸν καὶ ἐν τῇ εἰκόνι.
They say that this man, when a war arose for the Achaeans, died after fighting most bravely of the Aegeirates, and the rest of his brothers reported his death home; and for this reason the sisters lay aside their ornaments because of their grief for him, and the locals surname the father Sympathes, seeing that he is pitiable even in the image.
§7.26.10ὁδὸς δὲ ἐξ Αἰγείρας εὐθεῖα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τοῦ Διὸς διά τε ὀρῶν καὶ ἀνάντης ἐστί· μῆκος μὲν οὖν τῆς ὁδοῦ τεσσαράκοντά εἰσι στάδιοι, ἄγει δὲ ἐς Φελλόην, πόλισμα οὐκ ἐπιφανές, †οὐδὲ ὡς ἀεὶ ᾠκεῖτο καὶ Ἰώνων ἔτι ἐχόντων τὴν γῆν.
The road from Aegeira, straight from the sanctuary of Zeus, is through mountains and uphill; the length of the road is forty stades, and it leads to Phelloe, a town of no great repute, †nor was it always inhabited, even when the Ionians still held the land.
τὰ δὲ περὶ τὴν Φελλόην ἐς φυτείαν ἀμπέλων ἐστὶν ἐπιτήδεια· καὶ ὅσα πετρώδη τῆς χώρας, δρῦς τέ εἰσι καὶ θηρία, ἔλαφοι καὶ ὗς ἄγριοι·
The district around Phelloe is suitable for the cultivation of vines; and such parts of the country as are stony produce oaks and wild beasts, deer and wild boars.
§7.26.11εἰ δέ τινα τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησι πολισματίων ἀφθόνῳ καταρρεῖται τῷ ὕδατι, ἀριθμεῖν καὶ τὴν Φελλόην ἔστιν ἐν τούτοις.
And if any of the small towns among the Greeks is copiously flowed down with water, one may count Phelloe also among these.
θεῶν δὲ ἱερὰ Διονύσου καὶ Ἀρτέμιδός ἐστιν· ἡ μὲν χαλκοῦ πεποίηται, βέλος δὲ ἐκ φαρέτρας λαμβάνουσα· τῷ Διονύσῳ δὲ ὑπὸ κινναβάρεως τὸ ἄγαλμά ἐστιν ἐπηνθισμένον.
There are sanctuaries of the gods, of Dionysus and of Artemis; the latter is made of bronze, taking an arrow from her quiver; while the image of Dionysus is decorated with cinnabar.
ἐς δὲ τὸ ἐπίνειον καταβᾶσιν ἐξ Αἰγείρας καὶ αὖθις ἐς τὰ πρόσω βαδίζουσιν ἔστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς ὁδοῦ τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Ἀγροτέρας, ἔνθα τὴν αἶγα ὀκλάσαι λέγουσιν.
For those who have gone down to the harbor from Aegeira and are journeying forward again, there is on the right of the road the sanctuary of Agrotera, where they say the goat crouched down.
§7.26.12τῆς δὲ Αἰγειρατῶν ἔχονται Πελληνεῖς· πρὸς Σικυῶνος δὲ οὗτοι καὶ μοίρας τῆς Ἀργολίδος Ἀχαιῶν οἰκοῦσιν ἔσχατοι.
Next to the territory of the Aegeirates are the Pellenians; these dwell as the last of the Achaeans in the direction of Sicyon and the border of Argolis.
τὸ δὲ ὄνομα ἐγένετο τῇ πόλει λόγῳ μὲν τῷ Πελληνέων ἀπὸ Πάλλαντος, τῶν Τιτάνων δὲ καὶ Πάλλαντα εἶναι λέγουσι, δόξῃ δὲ τῇ Ἀργείων ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς Ἀργείου Πέλληνος· Φόρβαντος δὲ εἶναι τοῦ Τριόπα παῖδα αὐτὸν λέγουσιν.
The name was given to the city, according to the account of the Pellenians, from Pallas—and they say Pallas was one of the Titans—but according to the opinion of the Argives, from an Argive man, Pelles; and they say he was a son of Phorbas, the son of Triopas.
§7.26.13Αἰγείρας δὲ ἐν τῷ μεταξὺ καὶ Πελλήνης πόλισμα ὑπήκοον Σικυωνίων Δονοῦσσα καλουμένη ἐγένετο μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν Σικυωνίων ἀνάστατος, μνημονεύειν δὲ καὶ Ὅμηρον ἐν καταλόγῳ τῶν σὺν Ἀγαμέμνονί φασιν αὐτῆς ποιήσαντα ἔπος
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οἵ θʼ Ὑπερησίην τε καὶ αἰπεινὴν Δονόεσσαν· "
Πεισίστρατον δέ, ἡνίκα ἔπη τὰ Ὁμήρου διεσπασμένα τε καὶ ἄλλα ἀλλαχοῦ μνημονευόμενα ἤθροιζε, τότε αὐτὸν Πεισίστρατον ἢ τῶν τινα ἑταίρων μεταποιῆσαι τὸ ὄνομα ὑπὸ ἀγνοίας.
Between Aegeira and Pellene there was a small town subject to the Sicyonians, called Donussa, which was laid waste by the Sicyonians; and they say that Homer also made mention of it in the catalogue of those with Agamemnon, writing the verse: "And those who held Hyperesia and steep Donoessa; "but that Peisistratus, when he was collecting the verses of Homer which were scattered and remembered in different places, then Peisistratus himself or one of his companions changed the name through ignorance.
§7.26.14ἔστι δὲ Ἀριστοναῦται Πελληνεῦσιν ἐπίνειον.
Aristonautae is the harbor-town of the Pellenians.
ἐς τοῦτο ἐξ Αἰγείρας τῆς ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ σταδίων ἐστὶν εἴκοσιν ὁδὸς καὶ ἑκατόν· ταύτης δὲ ἡμίσεια ἐς Πελλήνην ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπινείου.
To this from Aegeira by the sea is a road of a hundred and twenty stades; and half of this distance is the road to Pellene from the harbor-town.
ὄνομα δὲ Ἀριστοναύτας γενέσθαι τῷ ἐπινείῳ λέγουσιν, ὅτι καὶ ἐς τοῦτον τὸν λιμένα ὡρμίσαντο οἱ πλεύσαντες ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀργοῦς.
They say that the name Aristonautae was given to the harbor-town because the men who sailed on the Argo anchored also in this harbor.