§8.11.1μετὰ δὲ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος χωρίον ὑποδέξεταί σε δρυῶν πλῆρες, καλούμενον Πέλαγος, καὶ ἐκ Μαντινείας ἡ ἐς Τεγέαν ὁδὸς φέρει διὰ τῶν δρυῶν.
After the sanctuary of Poseidon, a place full of oaks will welcome you, called Pelagos, and the road from Mantinea to Tegea leads through the oaks.
Μαντινεῦσι δὲ ὅροι πρὸς Τεγεάτας εἰσὶν ὁ περιφερὴς ἐν τῇ λεωφόρῳ βωμός.
The boundary between the Mantineans and the Tegeans is the circular altar on the highway.
εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος ἐς ἀριστερὰν ἐκτραπῆναι θελήσειας, σταδίους τε ἥξεις μάλιστά που πέντε καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν Πελίου θυγατέρων ἀφίξῃ τοὺς τάφους· ταύτας φασὶν οἱ Μαντινεῖς μετοικῆσαι παρὰ σφᾶς, τὰ ἐπὶ τῷ θανάτῳ τοῦ πατρὸς ὀνείδη φευγούσας.
If you should wish to turn to the left from the sanctuary of Poseidon, you will go about five stadia and arrive at the graves of the daughters of Pelias; the Mantineans say that these women migrated to their land, fleeing the reproaches on account of the death of their father.
§8.11.2ὡς γὰρ δὴ ἀφίκετο ἡ Μήδεια ἐς Ἰωλκόν, αὐτίκα ἐπεβούλευε τῷ Πελίᾳ, τῷ ἔργῳ μὲν συμπράσσουσα τῷ Ἰάσονι, τῷ λόγῳ δὲ ἀπεχθανομένη.
For when Medea arrived at Iolcus, she immediately plotted against Pelias, in fact cooperating with Jason, but in speech pretending to be at enmity with him.
ἐπαγγέλλεται τοῦ Πελίου ταῖς θυγατράσιν ὡς τὸν πατέρα αὐταῖς, ἢν ἐθέλωσιν, ἀποφανοῖ νέον ἀντὶ γέροντος παλαιοῦ· κατασφάξασα δὲ ὅτῳ δὴ τρόπῳ κριὸν τὰ κρέα ὁμοῦ φαρμάκοις ἐν λέβητι ἥψησεν, οἷς ἐκ τοῦ λέβητος τὸν κριὸν τὸν ἑψόμενον ἄρνα ἐξήγαγε ζῶντα·
She promised the daughters of Pelias that she would show them their father young instead of a decrepit old man, if they wished; and having slaughtered a ram in some way or other, she boiled its flesh together with magic herbs in a cauldron, by means of which she brought out from the cauldron the boiled ram as a living lamb.
§8.11.3παραλαμβάνει τε δὴ τὸν Πελίαν κατακόψασα ἑψῆσαι, καὶ αὐτὸν ἐκομίσαντο αἱ θυγατέρες οὐδὲ ἐς ταφὴν ἔτι ἐπιτήδειον.
So she took Pelias, cut him up, and boiled him; and his daughters received him back, no longer even fit for burial.
τοῦτο ἠνάγκασε τὰς γυναῖκας ἐς Ἀρκαδίαν μετοικῆσαι, καὶ ἀποθανούσαις τὰ μνήματα ἐχώσθη σφίσιν αὐτοῦ·
This forced the women to migrate to Arcadia, and when they died, their tombs were heaped up for them there.
ὀνόματα δὲ αὐταῖς ποιητὴς μὲν ἔθετο οὐδείς, ὅσα γε ἐπελεξάμεθα ἡμεῖς, Μίκων δὲ ὁ ζωγράφος Ἀστερόπειάν τε εἶναι καὶ Ἀντινόην ἐπὶ ταῖς εἰκόσιν αὐτῶν ἐπέγραψεν.
No poet has given them names, at least so far as we have read, but Micon the painter wrote Asteropeia and Antinoe upon their portraits.
§8.11.4χωρίον δὲ ὀνομαζόμενον Φοίζων περὶ εἴκοσί που σταδίους τῶν τάφων ἐστὶν ἀπωτέρω τούτων·
A place called Phoizon is about twenty stadia further than these graves.
ὁ δὲ Φοίζων μνῆμά ἐστι λίθου περιεχόμενον κρηπῖδι, ἀνέχον δὲ οὐ πολὺ ὑπὲρ τῆς γῆς.
Phoizon is a tomb surrounded by a stone foundation, rising not much above the ground.
κατὰ τοῦτο ἥ τε ὁδὸς μάλιστα στενὴ γίνεται καὶ τὸ μνῆμα Ἀρηιθόου λέγουσιν εἶναι, Κορυνήτου διὰ τὸ ὅπλον ἐπονομασθέντος.
At this point the road becomes very narrow, and they say the tomb is that of Areithous, surnamed Corynetes because of his weapon.
§8.11.5κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐς Παλλάντιον ἐκ Μαντινείας ἄγουσαν προελθόντι ὡς τριάκοντά που σταδίους, παρήκει κατὰ τοῦτο ἐς τὴν λεωφόρον ὁ τοῦ Πελάγους καλουμένου δρυμός, καὶ τὰ ἱππικὰ τὸ Ἀθηναίων τε καὶ Μαντινέων ἐνταῦθα ἐμαχέσαντο ἐναντία τῆς Βοιωτίας ἵππου.
On the road leading from Mantinea to Pallantium, for one who has gone forward about thirty stadia, the oak wood of what is called Pelagos extends at this point to the highway, and here the cavalry of the Athenians and the Mantineans fought against the Boeotian cavalry.
Ἐπαμινώνδαν δὲ ἀποθανεῖν Μαντινεῖς μὲν ὑπὸ Μαχαιρίωνος Μαντινέως φασὶν ἀνδρός· ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοι Σπαρτιάτην λέγουσιν εἶναι τὸν ἀποκτείναντα Ἐπαμινώνδαν, τίθενται δὲ Μαχαιρίωνα ὄνομα καὶ οὗτοι τῷ ἀνδρί.
As for the death of Epaminondas, the Mantineans say he died by the hand of Machaerion, a Mantinean man; and likewise the Lacedaemonians say that the one who killed Epaminondas was a Spartan, but they also give Machaerion as the name of the man.
§8.11.6ὁ δὲ Ἀθηναίων ἔχει λόγος— ὁμολογοῦσι δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ Θηβαῖοι—τρωθῆναι τὸν Ἐπαμινώνδαν ὑπὸ Γρύλου· παραπλήσια δέ σφισίν ἐστι καὶ τὰ ἐν τῇ γραφῇ τῇ τὸ ἔργον ἐχούσῃ τὸ ἐν Μαντινείᾳ.
But the Athenian account—with which the Thebans also agree—is that Epaminondas was wounded by Grylus; and similar to their account is what is seen in the painting depicting the battle at Mantinea.
φαίνονται δὲ οἱ Μαντινεῖς Γρύλον μὲν δημοσίᾳ τε θάψαντες καὶ ἔνθα ἔπεσεν ἀναθέντες εἰκόνα ἐπὶ στήλης ὡς ἀνδρὸς ἀρίστου τῶν συμμάχων· Μαχαιρίωνα δὲ λόγῳ μὲν καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι λέγουσιν, ἔργῳ δὲ οὔτε ἐν Σπάρτῃ Μαχαιρίων ἐστὶν οὐδείς, οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ παρὰ Μαντινεῦσιν, ὅτῳ γεγόνασιν ὡς ἀνδρὶ ἀγαθῷ τιμαί.
The Mantineans appear to have buried Grylus at public expense and, where he fell, to have set up his portrait on a stele as the best man of the allies; but as for Machaerion, though they and the Lacedaemonians mention him in speech, in fact there is no Machaerion either in Sparta or among the Mantineans who has received honors as a brave man.