Pausanias Analysis

These things indeed are related thus. The city of the Cleitorians is distant sixty stadia from the sources of the Ladon, and the road from the springs of the Ladon is a narrow valley along the river Aroanius. Near the city you will cross a river called Cleitor. The Cleitor empties into the Aroanius about seven stadia from the city.

In the Aroanius river there are fishes, both of other kinds and those called "poikiliai" (“spotted fish”); these “poikiliai” fish are said to produce a sound similar to that of a thrush. I myself saw them after they had been caught, but though I remained by the river until sunset, the time when they were said particularly to emit their voices, I heard nothing.

The city of Kleitor took its name from the son of Azan, and lies situated in a plain surrounded in a circle by mountains that are not high. Among the Kleitorians the most notable sanctuaries are those of Demeter, of Asklepios, and the third is said to be that of Eileithyia, although its sacred songs have no orderly arrangement. Olen the Lycian, who lived in an earlier age, composed hymns for the Delians, including one to Eileithyia, in which he clearly calls her "spinner of destinies," thus evidently identifying her with Fate, and declares her to be older even than Kronos.

The Kleitorians have also a sanctuary of the Dioskouroi, whom they call the Great Gods; it lies about four stades distant from the city, and there are bronze statues of them there. They have erected, moreover, on the summit of a mountain, about thirty stades beyond the city, a temple and statue of Athena Koria.