§2.41.1Ὀλυμπιὰς μὲν ἦν εἰκοστὴ καὶ τετάρτη πρὸς ταῖς ἑκατόν, ὅτε Πατρεῖς ἤρξαντο συμφρονεῖν καὶ Δυμαῖοι,
It was the hundred and twenty-fourth Olympiad when the Patreans and Dymaeans began to cooperate.
§2.41.2καιροὶ δὲ καθʼ οὓς Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Λάγου καὶ Λυσίμαχος, ἔτι δὲ Σέλευκος καὶ Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Κεραυνὸς μετήλλαξαν τὸν βίον. πάντες γὰρ οὗτοι περὶ τὴν προειρημένην ὀλυμπιάδα τὸ ζῆν ἐξέλιπον.
This was also the period in which Ptolemy the son of Lagus and Lysimachus, and moreover Seleucus and Ptolemy Keraunos, departed this life; for all of these died around the aforementioned Olympiad.
§2.41.3τοὺς μὲν οὖν ἀνώτερον τούτων χρόνους τοιαύτη τις ἦν ἡ περὶ τὸ προειρημένον ἔθνος διάθεσις.
In the times prior to this, the condition of the aforementioned nation was as follows.
§2.41.4ἀπὸ γὰρ Τισαμενοῦ βασιλευθέντες, ὃς ἦν Ὀρέστου μὲν υἱός, κατὰ δὲ τὴν τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν κάθοδον ἐκπεσὼν τῆς Σπάρτης κατέσχε τοὺς περὶ Ἀχαΐαν τόπους, §2.41.5ἀπὸ τούτου κατὰ τὸ συνεχὲς καὶ κατὰ τὸ γένος ἕως Ὠγύγου βασιλευθέντες, μετὰ ταῦτα δυσαρεστήσαντες τοῖς τοῦ προειρημένου παισὶν ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ νομίμως ἀλλὰ δεσποτικῶς αὐτῶν ἄρχειν, μετέστησαν εἰς δημοκρατίαν τὴν πολιτείαν.
For having been ruled by kings starting from Tisamenus, who was the son of Orestes and, having been expelled from Sparta at the return of the Heracleidae, occupied the regions around Achaea, being ruled by kings continuously and by descent from him down to Ogygus, they subsequently became dissatisfied with the sons of the aforementioned king because they ruled them not constitutionally but despotically, and so they changed their constitution to a democracy.
§2.41.6λοιπὸν ἤδη τοὺς ἑξῆς χρόνους μέχρι τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Φιλίππου δυναστείας ἄλλοτε μὲν ἄλλως ἐχώρει τὰ πράγματʼ αὐτοῖς κατὰ τὰς περιστάσεις, τό γε μὴν κοινὸν πολίτευμα, καθάπερ εἰρήκαμεν, ἐν δημοκρατίᾳ συνέχειν ἐπειρῶντο.
Thereafter, during the succeeding period down to the hegemony of Alexander and Philip, their affairs went sometimes one way and sometimes another according to circumstances, but they nevertheless endeavored to maintain their common constitution in a democracy, as we have said.
§2.41.7τοῦτο δʼ ἦν ἐκ δώδεκα πόλεων, ἃς ἔτι καὶ νῦν συμβαίνει διαμένειν, πλὴν Ὠλένου καὶ Ἑλίκης τῆς πρὸ τῶν Λευκτρικῶν ὑπὸ τῆς θαλάττης καταποθείσης·
This league consisted of twelve cities, which still exist today, with the exception of Olenus, and of Helice which was swallowed up by the sea before the battle of Leuctra.
§2.41.8αὗται δʼ εἰσὶν Πάτραι, Δύμη, Φαραί, Τριταία, Λεόντιον, Αἴγιον, Αἴγειρα, Πελλήνη, Βοῦρα, Καρύνεια.
These are Patrae, Dyme, Pharae, Tritaea, Leontium, Aegium, Aegeira, Pellene, Bura, and Cerynea.
§2.41.9κατὰ δὲ τοὺς ὑστέρους μὲν τῶν κατʼ Ἀλέξανδρον καιρῶν, προτέρους δὲ τῆς ἄρτι ῥηθείσης ὀλυμπιάδος, εἰς τοιαύτην διαφορὰν καὶ καχεξίαν ἐνέπεσον, καὶ μάλιστα διὰ τῶν ἐκ Μακεδονίας βασιλέων, ἐν ᾗ συνέβη πάσας τὰς πόλεις χωρισθείσας ἀφʼ αὑτῶν ἐναντίως τὸ συμφέρον ἄγειν ἀλλήλαις.
But in the period subsequent to Alexander, but prior to the Olympiad just mentioned, they fell into such a state of division and discord, chiefly through the agency of the kings of Macedonia, that all the cities became separated from one another and acted in opposition to each other's interests.
§2.41.10ἐξ οὗ συνέπεσε τὰς μὲν ἐμφρούρους αὐτῶν γενέσθαι διά τε Δημητρίου καὶ Κασσάνδρου καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα διʼ Ἀντιγόνου τοῦ Γονατᾶ, τὰς δὲ καὶ τυραννεῖσθαι· πλείστους γὰρ δὴ μονάρχους οὗτος ἐμφυτεῦσαι δοκεῖ τοῖς Ἕλλησι.
As a consequence of which, some of them came to be garrisoned through Demetrius and Cassander, and later through Antigonus Gonatas, while others were ruled by tyrants; for this ruler indeed seems to have planted more monarchs among the Greeks than any other.
§2.41.11περὶ δὲ τὴν εἰκοστὴν καὶ τετάρτην ὀλυμπιάδα πρὸς ταῖς ἑκατόν, καθάπερ ἐπάνω προεῖπον, αὖθις ἤρξαντο μετανοήσαντες συμφρονεῖν.
But about the hundred and twenty-fourth Olympiad, as I said above, they repented and began to cooperate once more.
ταῦτα δʼ ἦν κατὰ τὴν Πύρρου διάβασιν εἰς Ἰταλίαν.
This was at the time of Pyrrhus's crossing into Italy.
§2.41.12καὶ πρῶτοι μὲν συνέστησαν Δυμαῖοι, Πατρεῖς, Τριταιεῖς, Φαραιεῖς· διόπερ οὐδὲ στήλην ὑπάρχειν συμβαίνει τῶν πόλεων τούτων περὶ τῆς συμπολιτείας.
And first Dyme, Patrae, Tritaea, and Pharae united; wherefore there is not even a tablet existing of these cities concerning their union.
§2.41.13μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα μάλιστά πως ἔτει πέμπτῳ τὴν φρουρὰν ἐκβαλόντες Αἰγιεῖς μετέσχον τῆς συμπολιτείας· ἑξῆς δὲ τούτοις Βούριοι, τὸν τύραννον ἀποκτείναντες.
After this, about the fifth year, the Aegians, having expelled their garrison, joined the union; and next to them the Burians, having killed their tyrant.
§2.41.14ἅμα δὲ τούτοις Καρυνεῖς ἀποκατέστησαν.
And at the same time the Ceryneans restored themselves.
συνιδὼν γὰρ Ἰσέας ὁ τῆς Καρυνείας τότε τυραννεύων ἐκπεπτωκυῖαν μὲν ἐξ Αἰγίου τὴν φρουράν, ἀπολωλότα δὲ τὸν ἐν τῇ Βούρᾳ μόναρχον διὰ Μάργου καὶ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν, ἑαυτὸν δὲ πανταχόθεν ὁρῶν ὅσον οὐκ ἤδη πολεμηθησόμενον, §2.41.15ἀποθέμενος τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ λαβὼν τὰ πιστὰ παρὰ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀσφαλείας προσέθηκε τὴν πόλιν πρὸς τὸ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν σύστημα.
For Iseas, who was then tyrant of Cerynea, seeing that the garrison had been expelled from Aegium, and that the monarch of Bura had been destroyed by Margus and the Achaeans, and seeing himself about to be attacked from all sides, laid down his rule, and having received guarantees of safety from the Achaeans, added his city to the Achaean league.