μετὰ δὲ τοῦ Κηφισοδώρου τὸ μνῆμα τέθαπται μὲν Ἡλιόδωρος Ἅλις· τούτου γραφὴν ἰδεῖν ἔστι καὶ ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῷ μεγάλῳ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς· τέθαπται δὲ Θεμιστοκλῆς Πολιάρχου, τρίτος ἀπόγονος Θεμιστοκλέους τοῦ Ξέρξῃ καὶ Μήδοις ἐναντία ναυμαχήσαντος. τοὺς δὲ κατωτέρω τοῦ γένους πλὴν Ἀκεστίου παρήσω τοὺς ἄλλους· Ἀκεστίῳ δὲ τῇ Ξενοκλέους τοῦ Σοφοκλέους τοῦ Λέοντος τούτους τε ἐς τὸν τέταρτον πρόγονον Λέοντα δᾳδούχους πάντας ὑπῆρξε γενέσθαι καὶ παρὰ τὸν βίον τὸν αὑτῆς πρῶτον μὲν τὸν ἀδελφὸν Σοφοκλέα εἶδε δᾳδουχοῦντα, ἐπὶ δὲ τούτῳ τὸν ἄνδρα Θεμιστοκλέα, τελευτήσαντος δὲ καὶ τούτου Θεόφραστον τὸν παῖδα.
ταύτῃ μὲν τύχην τοιαύτην συμβῆναι λέγουσι· προελθοῦσι δὲ ὀλίγον Λακίου τέμενός ἐστιν ἥρωος καὶ δῆμος ὃν Λακιάδας ὀνομάζουσιν ἀπὸ τούτου, καὶ Νικοκλέους Ταραντίνου ἐστὶ μνῆμα, ὃς ἐπὶ μέγιστον δόξης κιθαρῳδῶν ἁπάντων ἦλθεν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ζεφύρου τε βωμὸς καὶ Δήμητρος ἱερὸν καὶ τῆς παιδός· σὺν δέ σφισιν Ἀθηνᾶ καὶ Ποσειδῶν ἔχουσι τιμάς. ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χωρίῳ Φύταλόν φασιν οἴκῳ Δήμητρα δέξασθαι, καὶ τὴν θεὸν ἀντὶ τούτων δοῦναί οἱ τὸ φυτὸν τῆς συκῆς· μαρτυρεῖ δέ μοι τῷ λόγῳ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ Φυτάλου τάφῳ· ἐνθάδʼ ἄναξ ἥρως Φύταλός ποτε δέξατο σεμνὴν / Δήμητραν, ὅτε πρῶτον ὀπώρας καρπὸν ἔφηνεν, / ἣν ἱερὰν συκῆν θνητῶν γένος ἐξονομάζει· / ἐξ οὗ δὴ τιμὰς Φυτάλου γένος ἔσχεν ἀγήρως. /
πρὶν δὲ ἢ διαβῆναι τὸν Κηφισὸν Θεοδώρου μνῆμά ἐστι τραγῳδίαν ὑποκριναμένου τῶν καθʼ αὑτὸν ἄριστα. ἀγάλματα δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ ποταμῷ Μνησιμάχης, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον ἀνάθημα κειρομένου οἱ τὴν κόμην τοῦ παιδός ἐστι τῷ Κηφισῷ· καθεστάναι δὲ ἐκ παλαιοῦ καὶ τοῖς πᾶσι τοῦτο Ἕλλησι τῇ Ὁμήρου τις ἂν τεκμαίροιτο ποιήσει, ὃς τὸν Πηλέα εὔξασθαί φησι τῷ Σπερχειῷ κερεῖν ἀνασωθέντος ἐκ Τροίας Ἀχιλλέως τὴν κόμην.
διαβᾶσι δὲ τὸν Κηφισὸν βωμός ἐστιν ἀρχαῖος Μειλιχίου Διός· ἐπὶ τούτῳ Θησεὺς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀπογόνων τῶν Φυτάλου καθαρσίων ἔτυχε, λῃστὰς καὶ ἄλλους ἀποκτείνας καὶ Σίνιν τὰ πρὸς Πιτθέως συγγενῆ. τάφος δὲ ἔστι μὲν αὐτόθι Θεοδέκτου τοῦ Φασηλίτου, ἔστι δὲ Μνησιθέου· τοῦτον λέγουσιν ἰατρόν τε ἀγαθὸν γενέσθαι καὶ ἀναθεῖναι ἀγάλματα, ἐν οἷς καὶ ὁ Ἴακχος πεποίηται. ᾠκοδόμηται δὲ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ναὸς οὐ μέγας καλούμενος Κυαμίτου· σαφὲς δὲ οὐδὲν ἔχω λέγειν εἴτε πρῶτος κυάμους ἔσπειρεν οὗτος εἴτε τινὰ ἐπεφήμισαν ἥρωα, ὅτι τῶν κυάμων ἀνενεγκεῖν οὐκ ἔστι σφίσιν ἐς Δήμητρα τὴν εὕρεσιν. ὅστις δὲ ἤδη τελετὴν Ἐλευσῖνι εἶδεν ἢ τὰ καλούμενα Ὀρφικὰ ἐπελέξατο, οἶδεν ὃ λέγω.
μνημάτων δὲ ἃ μάλιστα ἐς μέγεθος καὶ κόσμον ἥκει, τὸ μὲν ἀνδρός ἐστι Ῥοδίου μετοικήσαντος ἐς Ἀθήνας, τὸ δὲ Ἅρπαλος Μακεδὼν ἐποίησεν, ὃς Ἀλέξανδρον ἀποδρὰς ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας διέβη ναυσὶν ἐς τὴν Εὐρώπην, ἀφικόμενος δὲ παρʼ Ἀθηναίους ὑπʼ αὐτῶν συνελήφθη, διαφθείρας δὲ χρήμασιν ἄλλους τε καὶ τοὺς Ἀλεξάνδρου φίλους ἀπέδρα, πρότερον δὲ ἔτι Πυθονίκην ἔγημε, γένος μὲν οὐκ οἶδα ὁπόθεν, ἑταιροῦσαν δὲ ἔν τε Ἀθήναις καὶ ἐν Κορίνθῳ· ταύτης ἐς τοσοῦτον ἔρωτος προῆλθεν ὡς καὶ μνῆμα ἀποθανούσης ποιῆσαι πάντων ὁπόσα Ἕλλησίν ἐστιν ἀρχαῖα θέας μάλιστα ἄξιον.
ἔστι δὲ ἱερὸν ἐν ᾧ κεῖται Δήμητρος καὶ τῆς παιδὸς ἀγάλματα καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς τε καὶ Ἀπόλλωνος· Ἀπόλλωνι δὲ ἐποιήθη μόνῳ τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς. Κέφαλον γὰρ τὸν Δηίονος συνεξελόντα λέγουσιν Ἀμφιτρύωνι Τηλεβόας τὴν νῆσον οἰκῆσαι πρῶτον, ἣ νῦν ἀπʼ ἐκείνου Κεφαλληνία καλεῖται· μετοικεῖν δὲ αὐτὸν τέως ἐν Θήβαις φεύγοντα ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν διὰ τὸν Πρόκριδος τῆς γυναικὸς φόνον. δεκάτῃ δὲ ὕστερον γενεᾷ Χαλκῖνος καὶ Δαῖτος ἀπόγονοι Κεφάλου πλεύσαντες ἐς Δελφοὺς ᾔτουν τὸν θεὸν κάθοδον ἐς Ἀθήνας·
ὁ δέ σφισι κελεύει θῦσαι πρῶτον Ἀπόλλωνι ἐνταῦθα τῆς Ἀττικῆς, ἔνθα ἂν ἴδωσιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τριήρη θέουσαν. γενομένοις δὲ αὐτοῖς κατὰ τὸ ποικίλον καλούμενον ὄρος δράκων ἐφάνη σπουδῇ κατὰ τὸν φωλεὸν ἰών· καὶ Ἀπόλλωνί τε θύουσιν ἐν τῷ χωρίῳ τούτῳ καὶ ὕστερον σφᾶς ἐλθόντας ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἀστοὺς ἐποιήσαντο Ἀθηναῖοι. —μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο Ἀφροδίτης ναός ἐστι καὶ πρὸ αὐτοῦ τεῖχος ἀργῶν λίθων θέας ἄξιον.
After the tomb of Cephisodorus is the grave of Heliodorus Halis, whose picture may be seen in the great temple of Athena. There is also the grave of Themistocles, son of Poliarchus, and grandson of the Themistocles who fought the sea-fight against Xerxes and the Medes. All his later descendants I will pass over except Acestium. She was the daughter of Xenocles, the son of Sophocles, the son of Leon: all these her ancestors up to Leon, the third in the ascending line, were privileged to be Torch-bearers ; and in her own lifetime she saw first her brother Sophocles bearing a torch, and after him her husband Themistocles, and after his death her son Theophrastus. Such bliss, they say, was hers. A little farther on is a precinct of the hero Lacius, and a township named Laciadae after him. There is also a tomb of Nicocles of Tarentum, the most famous of all who have played and sung to the harp. There is also an altar of Zephyr, and a sanctuary of Demeter and her daughter: along with them are worshipped Athena and Poseidon.
They say that in this place Phytalus received Demeter in his house, and that for so doing the goddess gave him the fig-tree. This story is attested by the inscription on the grave of Phytalus :-— Here the lordly hero Phytalus once received the august Demeter, when she first revealed the autumnal fruit Which the race of mortals names the sacred fig ; Since when the race of Phytalus hath received honours that wax not old. Before you cross the Cephisus there is the tomb of Theodorus, the best tragic actor of his time. Beside the river are two statues, one of Mnesimache, the other a votive offering representing her son shearing his hair in honour of the Cephisus. That this was an ancient custom of all the Greeks may be inferred from the poetry of Homer, who says that Peleus vowed to shear the hair of Achilles in honour of the Spercheus if Achilles came home safe from Troy.
After we have crossed the Cephisus we come to an ancient altar of Gracious Zeus. At this altar Theseus was purified by the descendants of Phytalus after he had slain the robbers, especially Sinis, who was related to him through Pittheus. Here, too, is the grave of Theodectes of Phaselis, and the grave of Mnesitheus. The latter is said to have been a good physician and to have dedicated images, amongst others an image of Iacchus. Beside the road is built a small temple called the temple of Cyamites. I cannot say with certainty whether he was the first who sowed beans (κύαμοι), or whether they made up the name of a bean-hero because the discovery of beans cannot be attributed to Demeter. Any one who has seen the mysteries at Eleusis, or has read what are called the works of Orpheus, knows what I mean.
Among the largest and stateliest of the tombs is one of a Rhodian who migrated to Athens: another was erected by the Macedonian Harpalus, who fled from Alexander and crossed the sea from Asia to Europe. When he came to Athens, the Athenians apprehended him; but by bribing Alexander’s partisans and others he escaped. Previously he had married Pythionice: I do not know her extraction, but she had been a courtesan in Athens and Corinth. He loved her so passionately that when she died he reared in her memory the best worth seeing of all ancient Greek tombs. There is a sanctuary in which are images of Demeter and her daughter, and also of Athena and Apollo; but the sanctuary was originally made for Apollo alone. For they say that Cephalus, son of Deion, joined Amphitryo in his expedition against the Teleboans, and was the first to inhabit the island which is now called after him Cephallenia. Up to that time he had dwelt as an exile in Thebes, whither he fled from Athens on account of the murder of his wife Procris. Nine generations afterwards his descendants Chalcinus and Daetus sailed to Delphi, and requested of the god leave to return to Athens. He bade them first sacrifice to Apollo at that place in Attica where they should see a galley running on the land. But when they were about Mount Poecilus there appeared to them a serpent hastening to his hole; so they sacrificed to Apollo at that place, and afterwards when they were come to the city the Athenians made them citizens. After this is a temple of Aphrodite, and in front of it is a wall of unwrought stones that is worth seeing.
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