§9.32.1τοῖς δὲ ἐν Κρεύσιδι, ἐπινείῳ τῷ Θεσπιέων, οἰκοῦσιν ἐν κοινῷ μέν ἐστιν οὐδέν, ἐν ἰδιώτου δὲ ἀνδρὸς ἄγαλμα ἦν Διονύσου γύψου πεποιημένον καὶ ἐπικεκοσμημένον γραφῇ.
For those inhabiting Creusis, the harbor of the Thespians, there is nothing in common, but in the house of a private citizen there was a statue of Dionysus made of plaster and adorned with painting.
πλοῦς δὲ ἐς Κρεῦσίν ἐστιν ἐκ Πελοποννήσου σκολιός τε καὶ ἄλλως οὐκ εὔδιος· ἄκραι τε γὰρ ἀνέχουσιν ὡς μὴ κατʼ εὐθὺ τῆς θαλάσσης περαιοῦσθαι καὶ ἅμα ἐκ τῶν ὀρῶν καταπνέουσιν ἄνεμοι βίαιοι.
The voyage to Creusis from Peloponnese is crooked and otherwise not calm; for headlands project so that one cannot cross straight through the sea, and at the same time violent winds blow down from the mountains.
§9.32.2πλέοντι δὲ ἐκ Κρεύσιδος οὐκ ἄνω, παρὰ δὲ αὐτὴν Βοιωτίαν, πόλις ἐστὶν ἐν δεξιᾷ Θίσβη.
And sailing from Creusis not inland, but along Boeotia itself, there is a city on the right, Thisbe.
πρῶτα μὲν ὄρος ἐστὶ πρὸς θαλάσσῃ, τοῦτο δὲ ὑπερβαλόντα πεδίον σε ἐκδέξεται καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἄλλο ὄρος· ἐν δὲ ταῖς ὑπωρείαις ἐστὶν ἡ πόλις.
First there is a mountain by the sea, and having crossed this, a plain will receive you, and after this another mountain; and at the foothills is the city.
Ἡρακλέους δὲ ἱερὸν καὶ ἄγαλμα ὀρθὸν ἐνταῦθά ἐστι λίθου, καὶ Ἡράκλεια ἑορτὴν ἄγουσι.
There is a temple of Heracles here and an upright statue of stone, and they celebrate the Heracleia festival.
§9.32.3τὸ δὲ πεδίον τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν ὀρῶν ἐκώλυεν οὐδὲν ἂν λίμνην ὑπὸ πλήθους εἶναι τοῦ ὕδατος, εἰ μὴ διὰ μέσου χῶμά σφισιν ἐπεποίητο ἰσχυρόν· καὶ οὕτω παρὰ ἔτος ἐς μὲν τὰ ἐπέκεινα τοῦ χώματος ἐκτρέπουσι τὸ ὕδωρ, τὸ δὲ ἐπὶ τὰ ἕτερα αὐτοῦ γεωργοῦσι.
Nothing indeed would have prevented the plain between the mountains from being a lake due to the abundance of water, if a strong dyke had not been made for them through the middle; and so, every other year, they divert the water to the far side of the dyke, and cultivate the other side of it.
Θίσβην δὲ λέγουσιν ἐπιχώριον εἶναι νύμφην, ἀφʼ ἧς ἡ πόλις τὸ ὄνομα ἔσχηκεν.
They say Thisbe was a local nymph, from whom the city has its name.
§9.32.4παραπλέοντι δὲ αὐτόθεν πόλισμά ἐστιν οὐ μέγα ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ Τίφα· Ἡρακλεῖόν τε Τιφαιεῦσίν ἐστι καὶ ἑορτὴν ἄγουσιν ἐπέτειον.
And sailing along from there, there is a small town by the sea, Tipha; there is a temple of Heracles for the Tiphans and they hold an annual festival.
οὗτοι Βοιωτῶν μάλιστα ἐκ παλαιοῦ τὰ θαλάσσια ἐθέλουσιν εἶναι σοφοί, Τῖφυν ἄνδρα μνημονεύοντες ἐπιχώριον ὡς προκριθείη γενέσθαι τῆς Ἀργοῦς κυβερνήτης· ἀποφαίνουσι δὲ καὶ πρὸ τῆς πόλεως ἔνθα ἐκ Κόλχων ὀπίσω κομιζομένην ὁρμίσασθαι τὴν Ἀργὼ λέγουσιν.
These people of the Boeotians especially from of old desire to be clever in maritime matters, remembering a local man, Tiphys, that he was chosen to be the helmsman of the Argo; and they also point out in front of the city where they say the Argo anchored when returning back from Colchis.
§9.32.5ἀπὸ δὲ Θεσπίας ἰόντι ἄνω πρὸς ἤπειρον ἔστιν Ἁλίαρτος.
And going from Thespiae inland toward the continent, there is Haliartus.
ὅστις δὲ Ἁλιάρτου γέγονε καὶ Κορωνείας οἰκιστής, οὔ με ἀπὸ τῶν ἐς Ὀρχομενίους ἐχόντων εἰκὸς ἦν χωρίζειν· κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐπιστρατείαν τοῦ Μήδου φρονήσασιν Ἁλιαρτίοις τὰ Ἑλλήνων μοῖρα τῆς Ξέρξου στρατιᾶς γῆν τέ σφισιν ὁμοῦ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐπεξῆλθε καίουσα.
As to who became the founder of Haliartus and Coroneia, it was not fitting for me to separate it from the things relating to the Orchomenians; but during the expedition of the Mede, as the Haliartians favored the cause of the Greeks, a portion of Xerxes' army advanced upon their land and city together, burning them.
ἐν Ἁλιάρτῳ δέ ἐστι Λυσάνδρου τοῦ Λακεδαιμονίου μνῆμα· προσβαλὼν γὰρ τῷ Ἁλιάρτῳ πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος στρατιᾶς ἔκ τε Θηβῶν ἐνούσης ἔνδον καὶ ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν καὶ ἐπεξελθόντων τῶν πολεμίων ἔπεσεν ἐν τῇ μάχῃ.
And in Haliartus there is the tomb of Lysander the Lacedaemonian; for having attacked the wall of Haliartus, with an army from Thebes being inside and from Athens, and the enemies sallying out, he fell in the battle.
§9.32.6Λύσανδρον δὲ τὰ μὲν ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἐπαινέσαι, τὰ δὲ καὶ πικρῶς ἔστι μέμψασθαι.
Lysander indeed is to be highly praised in some respects, but in others also to be bitterly blamed.
σοφίαν μέν γε τοιαύτην ἐπεδείξατο· ἡγούμενος Πελοποννησίων ταῖς τριήρεσιν Ἀντίοχον κυβερνήτην ὄντα Ἀλκιβιάδου, φυλάξας Ἀλκιβιάδην ἀπόντα τοῦ ναυτικοῦ, τηνικαῦτα τὸν Ἀντίοχον ἐπηγάγετο ἐς ἐλπίδα ὡς ὄντα ἀξιόμαχον ναυμαχῆσαι Λακεδαιμονίοις, καὶ ἀναγαγόμενον ὑπὸ θράσους τε καὶ ἀλαζονίας ἐνίκησεν αὐτὸν οὐ πόρρω τοῦ Κολοφωνίων ἄστεως.
He displayed such cleverness as this: while commanding the triremes of the Peloponnesians against Antiochus, who was the helmsman of Alcibiades, having watched for Alcibiades being absent from the fleet, he then led Antiochus into the hope that he was a match to fight a naval battle with the Lacedaemonians, and when he put to sea out of boldness and vanity, he defeated him not far from the city of the Colophonians.
§9.32.7ὡς δὲ καὶ δεύτερα ὁ Λύσανδρος ἐπὶ τὰς τριήρεις ἀφίκετο ἐκ Σπάρτης, ἡμερώσατο μὲν οὕτω Κῦρον ὡς χρήματα, ὁπότε ἐς τὸ ναυτικὸν αἰτοίη, παρεῖναί οἱ κατὰ καιρόν τε καὶ ἄφθονα· ὁρμούντων δὲ ναυσὶν ἑκατὸν ἐν Αἰγὸς ποταμοῖς Ἀθηναίων, εἷλεν αὐτῶν τὰ πλοῖα, ἐσκεδασμένους ἐπί τε ὕδωρ τοὺς ναύτας καὶ ἐπὶ ἀγορὰν φυλάξας.
And when Lysander came a second time to the triremes from Sparta, he so won over Cyrus that money, whenever he asked for the fleet, was present for him timely and abundantly; and while the Athenians were anchored with a hundred ships at Aegospotami, he captured their ships, having watched for the sailors scattered both for water and for the market.
παρέσχετο δὲ καὶ ἔργον τοιόνδε ἐς δικαιοσύνην.
And he also presented such a deed with regard to justice.
§9.32.8Αὐτολύκῳ τῷ παγκρατιάσαντι, οὗ δὴ καὶ εἰκόνα ἰδὼν οἶδα ἐν πρυτανείῳ τῷ Ἀθηναίων, τούτῳ τῷ ἀνδρὶ ἐς ἀμφισβήτησιν ὅτου δὴ κτήματος Ἐτεόνικος ἦλθεν ὁ Σπαρτιάτης· ὡς δὲ ἄρα λέγων ἡλίσκετο οὐ δίκαια—ἦν γὰρ δὴ τηνικαῦτα Ἀθηναίοις τῶν τριάκοντα ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ παρῆν ἔτι ὁ Λύσανδρος—τούτων ἕνεκα Ἐτεόνικος πληγῶν τε ἄρχειν ἐπήρθη καὶ ἀμυνάμενον τὸν Αὐτόλυκον ἦγεν ἐπὶ Λύσανδρον, παντάπασιν ἐκεῖνον ἐς χάριν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δικάσειν ἐλπίζων· Λύσανδρος δὲ ἀδικεῖν Ἐτεόνικον κατέγνω καὶ ἀπέπεμψεν ἀτιμάσας τῷ λόγῳ.
To Autolycus the pancratiast, of whom indeed I also know having seen a statue in the prytaneum of the Athenians, with this man Eteonicus the Spartan entered into a dispute about some property; and when indeed Eteonicus in speaking was caught pleading what was not just—for indeed at that time the government of the Thirty was in power for the Athenians and Lysander was still present—because of these things Eteonicus was incited to begin striking blows, and Autolycus having defended himself, he led him to Lysander, hoping that he would judge entirely to his own favor; but Lysander condemned Eteonicus of acting unjustly and sent him away having disgraced him in his speech.
§9.32.9τάδε μὲν Λυσάνδρῳ τὰ ἐς δόξαν ὑπάρχοντα ἦν, ἄλλα δὲ τοσάδε ὀνείδη.
These were the things belonging to Lysander for glory, but there were other reproaches of equal number.
Φιλοκλέα γὰρ Ἀθηναῖον ἐν Αἰγὸς ποταμοῖς καὶ αὐτὸν στρατηγοῦντα καὶ Ἀθηναίων τῶν ἄλλων ὅσον τετρακισχιλίους αἰχμαλώτους ὄντας ἀπέκτεινεν ὁ Λύσανδρος καί σφισιν οὐδὲ ἀποθανοῦσιν ἐπήνεγκε γῆν, ὃ καὶ Μήδων τοῖς ἀποβᾶσιν ἐς Μαραθῶνα ὑπῆρξε παρὰ Ἀθηναίων καὶ αὐτῶν Λακεδαιμονίων τοῖς πεσοῦσιν ἐν Θερμοπύλαις ἐκ βασιλέως Ξέρξου.
For Philocles the Athenian, who was himself a general at Aegospotami, and of the other Athenians as many as four thousand being prisoners, Lysander put to death and did not even bring earth upon them when dead, which was granted even to those of the Medes who landed at Marathon by the Athenians, and by King Xerxes to those of the Lacedaemonians themselves who fell at Thermopylae.
μείζονα δὲ ἔτι Λακεδαιμονίοις ὀνείδη γενέσθαι παρεσκεύασεν ὁ Λύσανδρος ἐπί τε δεκαδαρχίαις ἃς κατέστησε ταῖς πόλεσι καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς Λάκωσιν ἁρμοσταῖς.
And Lysander caused even greater reproaches to come upon the Lacedaemonians because of the decarchies which he established in the cities, and because of the Lacedaemonian harmosts.
§9.32.10Λακεδαιμονίων δὲ χρήματα οὐ νομιζόντων κτᾶσθαι κατὰ δή τι μάντευμα, ὡς ἡ φιλοχρηματία μόνη γένοιτο ἂν ἀπώλεια τῇ Σπάρτῃ, ὁ δὲ καὶ χρημάτων πόθον σφίσιν ἐνεποίησεν ἰσχυρόν.
And since the Lacedaemonians did not think it right to acquire money according to a certain oracle, that love of money alone would be the ruin of Sparta, he on the contrary implanted a strong desire for money in them.
ἐγὼ μὲν δὴ Πέρσαις τε ἑπόμενος καὶ δικάζων νόμῳ γε τῷ ἐκείνων βλάβος κρίνω Λακεδαιμονίοις μᾶλλον ἢ ὠφέλειαν γενέσθαι Λύσανδρον·
I indeed, following the Persians and judging by their law, decide that Lysander became a source of harm rather than of benefit to the Lacedaemonians;