[3] I have already said earlier that the Athenians, far more than other people, share in a zeal [
spoudē] for that-which-is-divine [
theion]. They were the first to surname [
epοnomazein] Athena as Ergane [= patroness of
ergon ‘work’]; they were the first to set up limbless Hermai; and the temple [
nāos] [of their goddess] is shared by a Daimōn [‘superhuman force’] of zealous-ones [
spoudaioi].
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Whoever prefers things that have been made [
poieîsthai] with artistry [
tekhnē] to mere antiquity [
arkhaiotēs], such a person may have the following things to view [
theâsthai]: a man wearing a helmet, by Kleoitas, whose nails the artist has made of silver, and a statue [
agalma] of Earth [
Gē] imploring Zeus to rain upon her; perhaps the Athenians themselves needed downpourings [of rain], or maybe all the Greeks [
Hellēnes] had been plagued with a drought. There also are set up Timotheus the son of Konon and Konon himself; Procne too, who has already made up her mind about the boy, and Itys as well—a group dedicated by Alkamenes. There has also been made [
poieîsthai] an Athena displaying her olive-plant [
phuton], and Poseidon displaying his wave [
kūma];