§8.12.1τοῦ τάφου δὲ τοῦ Ἐπαμινώνδα μάλιστά που σταδίου μῆκος Διὸς ἀφέστηκεν ἱερὸν ἐπίκλησιν Χάρμωνος.
About a stadium's distance from the tomb of Epaminondas stands a sanctuary of Zeus, surnamed Charmon.
Ἀρκάδων δὲ ἐν τοῖς δρυμοῖς εἰσιν αἱ δρῦς διάφοροι, καὶ τὰς μὲν πλατυφύλλους αὐτῶν, τὰς δὲ φηγοὺς καλοῦσιν·
In the oak woods of Arcadia there are different kinds of oak trees; some of them they call broad-leaved, and others phēgos.
αἱ τρίται δὲ ἀραιὸν τὸν φλοιὸν καὶ οὕτω δή τι παρέχονται κοῦφον, ὥστε ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν θαλάσσῃ ποιοῦνται σημεῖα ἀγκύραις καὶ δικτύοις· ταύτης τῆς δρυὸς τὸν φλοιὸν ἄλλοι τε Ἰώνων καὶ Ἑρμησιάναξ ὁ τὰ ἐλεγεῖα ποιήσας φελλὸν ὀνομάζουσιν.
A third kind has a bark so thin and light that from it they make floats in the sea for anchors and nets; this oak's bark other Ionians and Hermesianax, the writer of elegiac poetry, call phellos (cork).
§8.12.2ἐς Μεθύδριον δὲ πόλιν μὲν οὐκέτι, κώμην δὲ ἐς τὸ Μεγαλοπολιτικὸν συντελοῦσαν, ἐς τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ Μεθύδριον ἐκ Μαντινείας ὁδός.
From Mantinea there is a road to Methydrium—no longer a city, but a village belonging to Megalopolis.
προελθόντι δὲ σταδίους τριάκοντα πεδίον τε ὀνομαζόμενον Ἀλκιμέδων καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ πεδίου τὸ ὄρος ἐστὶν ἡ Ὀστρακίνα, ἐν δὲ αὐτῷ σπήλαιον, ἔνθα ᾤκησεν Ἀλκιμέδων, ἀνὴρ τῶν καλουμένων ἡρώων.
After advancing thirty stadia along this road to Methydrium, there is a plain called Alcimedon, and above the plain is Mount Ostracina, and in it is a cave where Alcimedon, one of those called heroes, used to dwell.
§8.12.3τούτου τοῦ Ἀλκιμέδοντος θυγατρὶ συγγενέσθαι Φιαλοῖ Φιγαλεῖς λέγουσιν Ἡρακλέα· ὡς δὲ ᾔσθετο αὐτὴν ὁ Ἀλκιμέδων τεκοῦσαν, ἐκτίθησιν ἀπολουμένην ἐς τὸ ὄρος, σὺν δὲ αὐτῇ καὶ τὸν παῖδα ὃν ἔτεκε· καλοῦσι δὲ Αἰχμαγόραν αὐτὸν οἱ Ἀρκάδες.
The Phigalians say that Heracles had intercourse with Phialo, the daughter of this Alcimedon; and when Alcimedon perceived that she had given birth, he exposed her on the mountain to perish, and with her the child she had borne, whom the Arcadians call Aichmagoras.
ἀνακλαίοντος δὲ ὡς ἐξέκειτο τοῦ παιδός, κίσσα ἡ ὄρνις ἐπήκουέ τε ὀδυρομένου καὶ ἀπεμιμεῖτο τὰ κλαύματα·
When the child began to cry out as he lay exposed, a jay, which is a bird, heard him wailing and began to imitate his cries.
§8.12.4καί πως ὁ Ἡρακλῆς ἐρχόμενος τὴν ὁδὸν ταύτην ἐπήκουσε τῆς κίσσης καὶ—ἐνόμισε γὰρ παιδὸς εἶναι καὶ οὐκ ὄρνιθος τὸν κλαυθμόν—ἐτράπετο εὐθὺ τῆς φωνῆς·
And Heracles, traveling along this road, by some chance heard the jay, and—since he thought the crying was that of a child and not of a bird—he turned directly toward the sound.
γνωρίσας δὲ αὐτήν τε ἔλυσεν ἀπὸ τῶν δεσμῶν καὶ τὸν παῖδα ἀνεσώσατο.
When he recognized her, he loosed her from her bonds and saved the child.
ἐξ ἐκείνου δὲ ἡ πλησίον πηγὴ Κίσσα ἀπὸ τῆς ὄρνιθος ὀνομάζεται.
From that circumstance, the nearby spring is named Cissa (Jay) after the bird.
τεσσαράκοντα δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς πηγῆς στάδια ἀφέστηκε Πετροσάκα καλούμενον χωρίον· Μεγαλοπολιτῶν δὲ καὶ Μαντινέων ὅρος ἐστὶν ἡ Πετροσάκα.
Forty stadia away from the spring is a place called Petrosaca, which is the boundary between Megalopolis and Mantinea.
§8.12.5ἐπὶ δὲ ὁδοῖς ταῖς κατειλεγμέναις δύο ἐς Ὀρχομενόν εἰσιν ἄλλαι, καὶ τῇ μέν ἐστι καλούμενον Λάδα στάδιον, ἐς ὃ ἐποιεῖτο Λάδας μελέτην δρόμου, καὶ παρʼ αὐτὸ ἱερὸν Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς ὁδοῦ γῆς χῶμα ὑψηλόν· Πηνελόπης δὲ εἶναι τάφον φασίν, οὐχ ὁμολογοῦντες τὰ ἐς αὐτὴν ποιήσει τῇ Θεσπρωτίδι ὀνομαζομένῃ.
In addition to the roads already described, there are two others leading to Orchomenus. On one of them is what is called the Stadium of Ladas, where Ladas used to practice running, and beside it is a sanctuary of Artemis, and on the right of the road is a high mound of earth, which they say is the tomb of Penelope, although they do not agree with what is said about her in the poem called the Thesprotis.
§8.12.6ἐν ταύτῃ μέν γέ ἐστι τῇ ποιήσει ἐπανήκοντι ἐκ Τροίας Ὀδυσσεῖ τεκεῖν τὴν Πηνελόπην Πτολιπόρθην παῖδα·
For in this poem it is written that Penelope, upon Odysseus' return from Troy, bore him a son named Ptoliporthes.
Μαντινέων δὲ ὁ ἐς αὐτὴν λόγος Πηνελόπην φησὶν ὑπʼ Ὀδυσσέως καταγνωσθεῖσαν ὡς ἐπισπαστοὺς ἐσαγάγοιτο ἐς τὸν οἶκον, καὶ ἀποπεμφθεῖσαν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, τὸ μὲν παραυτίκα ἐς Λακεδαίμονα ἀπελθεῖν, χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον ἐκ τῆς Σπάρτης ἐς Μαντίνειαν μετοικῆσαι, καί οἱ τοῦ βίου τὴν τελευτὴν ἐνταῦθα συμβῆναι.
But the Mantineans' story about her says that Penelope, having been accused by Odysseus of bringing suitors into the house, and being sent away by him, went for the time being to Lacedaemon, but later in time migrated from Sparta to Mantinea, and that the end of her life occurred for her there.
§8.12.7τοῦ τάφου δὲ ἔχεται τούτου πεδίον οὐ μέγα, καὶ ὄρος ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ τὰ ἐρείπια ἔτι Μαντινείας ἔχον τῆς ἀρχαίας· καλεῖται δὲ τὸ χωρίον τοῦτο ἐφʼ ἡμῶν Πτόλις.
Adjoining this tomb is a small plain, and in the plain is a mountain containing still the ruins of ancient Mantinea; this place is called Ptolis (City) in our time.
κατὰ δὲ τὸ πρὸς ἄρκτον αὐτῆς προελθόντι ὁδὸν οὐ μακρὰν Ἀλαλκομενείας ἐστὶ πηγή, τῆς Πτόλεως δὲ μετὰ σταδίους τριάκοντα κώμης τε ἐρείπια καλουμένης Μαιρᾶς καὶ τάφος Μαιρᾶς, εἰ δὴ ἐνταῦθα καὶ μὴ ἐν τῇ Τεγεατῶν ἐτάφη·
As you go from it towards the north, a short distance along the road is the spring Alalcomeneia, and thirty stadia after Ptolis are the ruins of a village called Maera, and the tomb of Maera, if indeed she was buried here and not in the territory of the Tegeans.
Τεγεάταις γὰρ τοῦ λόγου τὸ εἰκὸς καὶ οὐ Μαντινεῦσιν ἕπεται, Μαιρὰν τὴν Ἄτλαντος παρὰ σφίσι ταφῆναι. τάχα δʼ ἂν καὶ ἀπόγονος τῆς Ἄτλαντος Μαιρᾶς ἑτέρα Μαιρὰ ἀφίκοιτο ἐς τὴν Μαντινικήν.
For the probability of the story lies with the Tegeans and not the Mantineans, that Maera, the daughter of Atlas, was buried in their land; or perhaps another Maera, a descendant of the former Maera, came to the Mantinean land.
§8.12.8λείπεται δὲ ἔτι τῶν ὁδῶν ἡ ἐς Ὀρχομενόν, καθʼ ἥντινα Ἀγχισία τε ὄρος καὶ Ἀγχίσου μνῆμά ἐστιν ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄρους τοῖς ποσίν.
There still remains the other road to Orchomenus, along which are Mount Anchisia and the tomb of Anchises at the foot of the mountain.
ὡς γὰρ δὴ ἐκομίζετο ἐς Σικελίαν ὁ Αἰνείας, ἔσχε ταῖς ναυσὶν ἐς τὴν Λακωνικήν, καὶ πόλεών τε Ἀφροδισιάδος καὶ Ἤτιδος ἐγένετο οἰκιστὴς καὶ τὸν πατέρα Ἀγχίσην κατὰ πρόφασιν δή τινα παραγενόμενον ἐς τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον καὶ αὐτόθι τοῦ βίου τῇ τελευτῇ χρησάμενον ἔθαψεν ἐνταῦθα· καὶ τὸ ὄρος τοῦτο ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀγχίσου καλοῦσιν Ἀγχισίαν.
For when Aeneas was on his voyage to Sicily, he put in with his ships to Laconia, and became the founder of the cities of Aphrodicias and Etis, and buried his father Anchises here when he had come to this place for some reason and had ended his life; and from Anchises they call this mountain Anchisia.
§8.12.9τούτου δὲ συντελοῦσιν ἐς πίστιν Αἰολέων οἱ Ἴλιον ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἔχοντες, οὐδαμοῦ τῆς σφετέρας ἀποφαίνοντες μνῆμα Ἀγχίσου.
To the truth of this, the Aeolians who occupy Ilium in our day contribute, since they point out a tomb of Anchises nowhere in their own country.
πρὸς δὲ τοῦ Ἀγχίσου τῷ τάφῳ ἐρείπιά ἐστιν Ἀφροδίτης ἱεροῦ, καὶ Μαντινέων ὅροι πρὸς Ὀρχομενίους καὶ ἐν ταῖς Ἀγχισίαις εἰσίν.
Near the tomb of Anchises are the ruins of a sanctuary of Aphrodite, and the boundaries between the Mantineans and the Orchomenians are also in the Anchisian mountains.