Greek Texts & Translations

Its inhabitants were in succession Argives, Cretans, Epidauri ans, and Dorians. At last the Athenians divided the island by lot among settlers of their own. The Lacedaemonians, however, deprived the Athenians of it, and restored it to the ancient in- habitants.

The Aeginetae sent out colonists to Cydonia ^note in Crete, and to the Ombrici. According to Ephorus, silver was first struck as money by Pheidon. The island became a mart, the inhabitants, on account of the fertility of its soil, employing themselves at sea as traders; whence goods of a small kind had the name of aegina wares. 17

The poet frequently speaks of places in succession as they are situated; they who inhabited Hyria, and Aulis; ^note
and they who occupied Argos, and Tiryns,
Hermione, and Asine,
Troezen, and Eiones.
Il. ii. 559. At other times he does not observe any order; Schoenus, and Scolus,
Thespeia, and Graea. ^note
Il. ii. 497. He also mentions together places on the continent and islands; they who held Ithaca,
and inhabited Crocyleia, ^note
Il. ii. 632. for Crocyleia is in Acarnania. Thus he here joins with Aegina Mases, which belongs to the continent of Argolis.

Homer does not mention Thyreae, but other writers speak of it as well known. It was the occasion of a contest between the three hundred Argives against the same number of Lacedaemonians; the latter were conquerors by means of a stratagem of Othryadas. Thucydides places Thyreae in Cynuria, on the confines of Argia and Laconia. ^note

Hysiae also is a celebrated place in Argolica; and Cenchreae, which lies on the road from Tegea to Argos, over the mountain Parthenius, and the Creopolus. ^note But Homer was not acquainted with either of these places, [nor with the Lyrceium, nor Orneae, and yet they are villages in the Argian territory; the former of the same name as the mountain there; the latter of the same name as the Orneae, situated between Corinth and Sicyon]. ^note