Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. Friedrich Spiro, 9.24.1

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ἐξ Ἀκραιφνίου δὲ ἰόντι εὐθεῖαν ἐπὶ λίμνην τὴν Κηφισίδα—οἱ δὲ Κωπαΐδα ὀνομάζουσι τὴν αὐτήν— πεδίον καλούμενόν ἐστιν Ἀθαμάντιον· οἰκῆσαι δὲ Ἀθάμαντα ἐν αὐτῷ φασιν. ἐς δὲ τὴν λίμνην ὅ τε ποταμὸς ὁ Κηφισὸς ἐκδίδωσιν ἀρχόμενος ἐκ Λιλαίας τῆς Φωκέων καὶ διαπλεύσαντί εἰσι Κῶπαι. κεῖνται δὲ αἱ Κῶπαι πόλισμα ἐπὶ τῇ λίμνῃ, τούτου δὲ καὶ Ὅμηρος ἐποιήσατο ἐν καταλόγῳ μνήμην· ἐνταῦθα Δήμητρος καὶ Διονύσου καὶ Σαράπιδός ἐστιν ἱερά.

Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. Friedrich Spiro. Leipzig. 1903.

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως (Greek) (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.)

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Description of Greece Perseus (Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.) — 9.24.1 focus

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On the straight road from Acraephnium to the Cephisian, or as it is also called, the Copaic Lake, is what is styled the Athamantian Plain, on which, they say, Athamas made his home. Into the lake flows the river Cephisus, which rises at Lilaea in Phocis , and on sailing across it you come to Copae, a town lying on the shore of the lake. Homer¹ mentions it in the Catalogue. Here is a sanctuary of Demeter, one of Dionysus and a third of Serapis.

English (Jones and Ormerod; retranslated Gregory Nagy, CHS, 2018) (OCR draft) Experimental (CHS Pausanias Reader retranslation by Gregory Nagy, based on Jones and Ormerod, with marked Greek terms, notes, quotations, and bibliographic attributions preserved.) — 9.24.1 focus

[1] On the straight road from Acraephnium to the Cephisian, or as it is also called, the Copaic Lake, is what is styled the Athamantian Plain, on which, they say, Athamas made his home. Into the lake flows the river Kephisos, which rises at Lilaea in Phokis, and on sailing across it you come to Copae, a town lying on the shore of the lake. Homer mentions it in the Catalogue. Here is a sanctuary of Demeter, one of Dionysus and a third of Serapis.

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