§8.15.1Φενεάταις δὲ καὶ Δήμητρός ἐστιν ἱερὸν ἐπίκλησιν Ἐλευσινίας, καὶ ἄγουσι τῇ θεῷ τελετήν, τὰ Ἐλευσῖνι δρώμενα καὶ παρὰ σφίσι τὰ αὐτὰ φάσκοντες καθεστηκέναι· ἀφικέσθαι γὰρ αὐτοῖς Ναὸν κατὰ μάντευμα ἐκ Δελφῶν, τρίτον δὲ ἀπόγονον Εὐμόλπου τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν Ναόν.
And the Pheneatians have also a sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Eleusinia, and they perform a rite for the goddess, claiming that the very same things done at Eleusis are established among them; for they say that Naos came to them in accordance with an oracle from Delphi, and that this Naos was a third descendant of Eumolpus.
παρὰ δὲ τῆς Ἐλευσινίας τὸ ἱερὸν πεποίηται Πέτρωμα καλούμενον, λίθοι δύο ἡρμοσμένοι πρὸς ἀλλήλους μεγάλοι.
Near the sanctuary of the Eleusinian goddess is made what is called Petroma, two large stones fitted to each other.
§8.15.2ἄγοντες δὲ παρὰ ἔτος ἥντινα τελετὴν μείζονα ὀνομάζουσι, τοὺς λίθους τούτους τηνικαῦτα ἀνοίγουσι· λαβόντες δὲ γράμματα ἐξ αὐτῶν ἔχοντα ἐς τὴν τελετὴν καὶ ἀναγνόντες ἐς ἐπήκοον τῶν μυστῶν, κατέθεντο ἐν νυκτὶ αὖθις τῇ αὐτῇ.
And celebrating every other year a rite which they call the greater one, they open these stones at that time; and taking from them writings that concern the rite and reading them in the hearing of the initiates, they deposit them again on the same night.
Φενεατῶν δὲ οἶδα τοὺς πολλοὺς καὶ ὀμνύντας ὑπὲρ μεγίστων τῷ Πετρώματι.
And I know that most of the Pheneatians also take oaths by the Petroma on the most important matters.
§8.15.3καὶ ἐπίθημα ἐπʼ αὐτῷ περιφερές ἐστιν, ἔχον ἐντὸς Δήμητρος πρόσωπον Κιδαρίας· τοῦτο ὁ ἱερεὺς περιθέμενος τὸ πρόσωπον ἐν τῇ μείζονι καλουμένῃ τελετῇ ῥάβδοις κατὰ λόγον δή τινα τοὺς ὑποχθονίους παίει.
And there is a circular lid upon it, containing inside a mask of Demeter Kidaria; this mask the priest puts on in the so-called greater rite and, according to some traditional account indeed, strikes the underworld deities with rods.
Φενεατῶν δέ ἐστι λόγος, καὶ πρὶν ἢ Ναὸν ἀφικέσθαι καὶ ἐνταῦθα Δήμητρα πλανωμένην· ὅσοι δὲ Φενεατῶν οἴκῳ τε καὶ ξενίοις ἐδέξαντο αὐτήν, τούτοις τὰ ὄσπρια ἡ θεὸς τὰ ἄλλα, κύαμον δὲ οὐκ ἔδωκέ σφισι.
And there is a story among the Pheneatians that even before Naos arrived, Demeter wandered here as well; and to those of the Pheneatians who received her with shelter and hospitality, the goddess gave all other kinds of pulse, but a bean she did not give them.
§8.15.4κύαμον μὲν οὖν ἐφʼ ὅτῳ μὴ καθαρὸν εἶναι νομίζουσιν ὄσπριον, ἔστιν ἱερὸς ἐπʼ αὐτῷ λόγος· οἱ δὲ τῷ Φενεατῶν λόγῳ δεξάμενοι τὴν θεόν, Τρισαύλης καὶ Δαμιθάλης, ἐποιήσαντο μὲν Δήμητρος ναὸν Θεσμίας ὑπὸ τῷ ὄρει τῇ Κυλλήνῃ, κατεστήσαντο δὲ αὐτῇ καὶ τελετήν, ἥντινα καὶ νῦν ἄγουσιν.
Now as for the bean, for what reason they do not consider it a pure pulse, there is a sacred story about it; but those who received the goddess according to the story of the Pheneatians, Trisaules and Damithales, made a temple of Demeter Thesmia under Mount Cyllene, and established a rite for her, which they celebrate even now.
ὁ δὲ ναὸς οὗτος τῆς Θεσμίας σταδίους πέντε μάλιστά που καὶ δέκα ἐστὶν ἀπωτέρω τῆς πόλεως.
And this temple of Demeter Thesmia is about fifteen stades away from the city.
§8.15.5ἐς δὲ Πελλήνην ἐκ Φενεοῦ καὶ ἐς Αἴγειραν ἰόντι Ἀχαιῶν πόλιν, πέντε που προεληλυθότι καὶ δέκα σταδίους, Ἀπόλλωνός ἐστι Πυθίου ναός· ἐρείπια δὲ ἐλείπετο αὐτοῦ μόνα καὶ βωμὸς μέγας λίθου λευκοῦ.
For one going from Pheneus to Pellene and to Aegeira, a city of the Achaeans, when he has gone forward about fifteen stades, there is a temple of Pythian Apollo; only its ruins were left, and a large altar of white stone.
ἐνταῦθα ἔτι καὶ νῦν Ἀπόλλωνι Φενεᾶται καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι θύουσιν, Ἡρακλέα ἑλόντα Ἦλιν τὸ ἱερὸν λέγοντες ποιῆσαι.
Here even now the Pheneatians still sacrifice to Apollo and Artemis, saying that Heracles made the sanctuary after taking Elis.
ἔστι δὲ αὐτόθι καὶ ἡρώων μνήματα, ὅσοι Ἡρακλεῖ στρατείας ἐπὶ Ἠλείους μετασχόντες οὐκ ἀπεσώθησαν οἴκαδε ἐκ τῆς μάχης.
And there are also tombs of heroes there, as many as shared in the expedition of Heracles against the Eleans and did not return home safe from the battle.
§8.15.6τέθαπται δὲ Τελαμὼν ἐγγύτατα τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Ἀροανίου, ἀπωτέρω μικρὸν ἢ ἔστι τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος, Χαλκώδων δὲ οὐ πόρρω κρήνης καλουμένης Οἰνόης.
And Telamon is buried closest to the river Aroanius, a little further off than where the sanctuary of Apollo is, and Chalcodon not far from the spring called Oinoe.
τὸν μὲν δὴ Ἐλεφήνορος τοῦ Εὐβοεῦσιν ἐς Ἴλιον ἡγησαμένου καὶ τὸν Αἴαντός τε καὶ Τεύκρου, τούτων μὲν τοὺς πατέρας οὐκ ἀποδέξαιτο ἄν τις ἐν τούτῳ πεσεῖν τῷ ἀγῶνι· πῶς μὲν γὰρ ἂν συνεπελάβετο Ἡρακλεῖ τοῦ ἔργου Χαλκώδων, ὃν πρότερον ἔτι ἀποκτεῖναι Ἀμφιτρύωνα καὶ μαρτυρεῖται καὶ πιστεύειν ἄξιά ἐστιν ἐν Θήβαις;
Now as for the father of Elephenor, who led the Euboeans to Ilium, and the father of Ajax and Teucer, no one would accept that these fathers fell in this contest; for how could Chalcodon have taken part in the deed with Heracles, whom they witness to have killed Amphitryon even earlier in Thebes, which is worthy of belief?
§8.15.7πῶς δὲ Τεῦκρος ᾤκισεν ἂν Σαλαμῖνα ἐν Κύπρῳ πόλιν, μηδενὸς ὡς ἀνέστρεψεν ἐκ Τροίας ἐκβαλόντος ἐκ τῆς οἰκείας;
And how would Teucer have founded the city of Salamis in Cyprus, since no one cast him out from his home when he returned from Troy?
τίς δʼ ἂν ἐξήλασεν ἄλλος πλὴν ὁ Τελαμὼν αὐτόν;
And who else would have driven him out but Telamon?
δῆλα οὖν ἐστι Χαλκώδοντα οὐ τὸν ἐξ Εὐβοίας καὶ Τελαμῶνα οὐ τὸν Αἰγινήτην ἐπὶ Ἠλείους Ἡρακλεῖ μετεσχηκέναι τῆς στρατείας· ὁμώνυμοι δὲ ἐπιφανέσιν ἄνδρες ἀφανέστεροι καὶ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἔτι καὶ τὸν ἅπαντα ἐγίνοντο ὁμοίως χρόνον.
It is clear, therefore, that Chalcodon, not the one from Euboea, and Telamon, not the Aeginetan, shared in the expedition with Heracles against the Eleans; and men less illustrious bearing the same names as the illustrious ones have existed in our time too, and similarly through all time.
§8.15.8Φενεάταις δὲ πρὸς τὸ Ἀχαϊκὸν τὸ ὅμορον οὐ καθʼ ἓν ὅροι τῆς γῆς εἰσιν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς μὲν Πελλήνην ὁ καλούμενος Πωρίνας, πρὸς δὲ τὴν Αἰγειρᾶτιν †τὸ ἐπʼ Ἄρτεμιν. ἐν δὲ αὐτῶν Φενεατῶν τῇ χώρᾳ μετὰ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τοῦ Πυθίου προήξεις τε οὐκ ἐπὶ πολὺ καὶ ἐντὸς ἔσῃ τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος ἀγούσης τὴν Κρᾶθιν.
And for the Pheneatians, the boundaries of their land with the neighboring Achaean land are not at a single point, but towards Pellene the boundary is the so-called Porinas, and towards the territory of Aegeira, the place called "towards Artemis." Within the territory of the Pheneatians themselves, after the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo, you will go forward not far and you will be inside the road that leads to the mountain where the Crathis is.
§8.15.9ἐν τούτῳ τῷ ὄρει τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Κράθιδός εἰσιν αἱ πηγαί· ῥεῖ δὲ ἐς θάλασσαν παρὰ Αἰγάς, ἔρημον τὰ ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ χωρίον, τὰ δὲ παλαιότερα Ἀχαιῶν πόλιν.
In this mountain are the springs of the river Crathis; and it flows into the sea past Aegae, a place deserted in my time, but in older days a city of the Achaeans.
ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ καλεῖται τοῦ Κράθιδος καὶ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ ποταμὸς ἐν γῇ τῇ Βρεττίων· ἐν δὲ τῇ Κράθιδι τῷ ὄρει Πυρωνίας ἱερόν ἐστιν Ἀρτέμιδος, καὶ τὰ ἔτι ἀρχαιότερα παρὰ τῆς θεοῦ ταύτης ἐπήγοντο Ἀργεῖοι πῦρ ἐς τὰ Λερναῖα.
And from this Crathis is also named the river in Italy in the land of the Bruttians; and on Mount Crathis is a sanctuary of Artemis Pyronia, and in even more ancient times the Argives used to fetch fire from this goddess for the Lernaean rites.