Passage 3.17.1
οὐ πόρρω δὲ τῆς Ὀρθίας ἐστὶν Εἰλειθυίας ἱερόν· οἰκοδομῆσαι δέ φασιν αὐτὸ καὶ Εἰλείθυιαν νομίσαι θεὸν γενομένου σφίσιν ἐκ Δελφῶν μαντεύματος. Λακεδαιμονίοις δὲ ἡ ἀκρόπολις μὲν ἐς ὕψος περιφανὲς ἐξίσχουσα οὐκ ἔστι, καθὰ δὴ Θηβαίοις τε ἡ Καδμεία καὶ ἡ Λάρισα Ἀργείοις· ὄντων δὲ ἐν τῇ πόλει λόφων καὶ ἄλλων, τὸ μάλιστα ἐς μετέωρον ἀνῆκον ὀνομάζουσιν ἀκρόπολιν.
Not far from the sanctuary of Orthia is a temple of Eileithyia. They say that they built it, and recognized Eileithyia as a goddess, in accordance with an oracle they received from Delphi. The Lacedaemonians do not have an acropolis rising conspicuously high, as the Thebans have their Cadmeia, and the Argives their Larisa; yet, as there are other hills within the city, the one which rises highest above the rest they call the acropolis.