[3] Worthy of viewing [
théā] in the Peiraieus is a precinct [
temenos] of Athena and Zeus. Both their statues [
agalmata] are of bronze; Zeus holds a scepter and a Nike, Athena a spear. Here is [a painting of] Leosthenes and [of] his sons, painted [
graphein] by Arkesilaos. This Leosthenes at the head of the Athenians and the united Greeks [Hellēnes] defeated the Macedonians in Boeotia and again outside Thermopylae forced them into Lamia over against Oitē, and hemmed them in there.
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It [= the painting] is in the long portico [
stoā], where is located a marketplace [
agorā] for those living near the sea—those farther away from the harbor [
limēn] have another—but behind the portico near the sea stand a Zeus and a [personified] Dēmos, the work [
ergon] of Leokhares. And by the sea Konon
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built a sanctuary [
hieron] of Aphrodite, after he had crushed the Lacedaemonian warships off Knidos in the Carian peninsula.
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I say-this-because [
gar] the people of Knidos honor [
tīmân] Aphrodite greatly, and they have sanctuaries [
hiera] of the goddess [
theos (feminine)]; the oldest is to her as Doritis [‘Bountiful’], the next in age as Akraia [‘of the Headland’], while the newest is to the Aphrodite called ‘of Knidos’ by people generally, but Euploia [‘Good Sailing’] by the people of Knidos themselves.