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- Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-28
Pausanias describes the dedicatory chariot of Hieron of Syracuse, the lives of the two tyrants sharing that name, and the athletic statues of various victors, including Agesarchus of Tritaia.
πλησίον δὲ ἅρμα τέ ἐστι χαλκοῦν καὶ ἀνὴρ ἀναβεβηκὼς ἐπʼ αὐτό, κέλητες δὲ ἵπποι παρὰ τὸ ἅρμα εἷς ἑκατέρωθεν ἕστηκε καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἵππων καθέζονται παῖδες· ὑπομνήματα δὲ ἐπὶ νίκαις Ὀλυμπικαῖς ἐστιν Ἱέρωνος τοῦ Δεινομένους τυραννήσαντος Συρακουσίων μετὰ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Γέλωνα. τὰ δὲ ἀναθήματα οὐχ Ἱέρων ἀπέστειλεν, ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν ἀποδοὺς τῷ θεῷ Δεινομένης ἐστὶν ὁ Ἱέρωνος,1 ἔργα δὲ τὸ μὲν Ὀνάτα τοῦ Αἰγινήτου τὸ ἅρμα, Καλάμιδος δὲ οἱ ἵπποι τε οἱ ἑκατέρωθεν καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτῶν εἰσιν οἱ παῖδες.
Near this is a bronze chariot and a man mounted upon it, and beside the chariot stand race-horses, one on each side, and boys are seated upon the horses. These are memorials of the Olympic victories of Hieron, the son of Deinomenes, who was tyrant of Syracuse after his brother Gelo. But Hieron did not send the dedications; rather, the one who paid the vow to the god was Deinomenes, the son of Hieron, and as for the works, the chariot is by Onatas of Aegina, but the horses on each side and the boys upon them are by Calamis.
παρὰ δὲ τοῦ Ἱέρωνος τὸ ἅρμα ἀνήρ ἐστιν ὁμώνυμός τε τῷ Δεινομένους καὶ ἐν Συρακούσαις καὶ οὗτος τυραννήσας, Ἱέρων δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἱεροκλέους· μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἀγαθοκλέους τοῦ πρότερον τυραννήσαντος τελευτὴν Συρακουσίοις αὖθις ἀναπεφύκει τύραννος ὁ Ἱέρων οὗτος, τὴν δὲ ἀρχὴν εἶχεν ἔτει δευτέρῳ τῆς ἕκτης Ὀλυμπιάδος ἐπὶ ταῖς εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν, ἣν Κυρηναῖος στάδιον ἐνίκησεν Ἰδαῖος.2
Beside the chariot of Hieron stands a man homonymous with the son of Deinomenes, who also ruled as tyrant in Syracuse; he was called Hieron, the son of Hierocles. After the death of Agathocles, who had previously been tyrant, this Hieron arose again as tyrant for the Syracusans, and he held office in the second year of the hundred and twenty-sixth Olympiad, in which Idaius of Cyrene won the stadium race.
οὗτος ὁ Ἱέρων ξενίαν πρὸς Πύρρον τὸν Αἰακίδου καὶ ὁμοῦ τῇ ξενίᾳ καὶ ἐπιγαμίαν ἐποιήσατο, Γέλωνι τῷ παιδὶ Νηρηίδα ἀγαγόμενος τὴν Πύρρου. Ῥωμαίων δὲ περὶ Σικελίας ἐς τὴν πρὸς Καρχηδονίους πόλεμον καταστάντων εἶχον μὲν οἱ Καρχηδόνιοι τῆς νήσου πλέον ἢ ἥμισυ, Ἱέρωνι δὲ συνιόντων μὲν ἄρτι ἐς τὸν πόλεμον ἑλέσθαι τὰ Καρχηδονίων ἤρεσε,3 μετὰ δὲ οὐ πολὺ δυνάμει τε εἶναι νομίζων τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐχυρώτερα καὶ βεβαιότερα ἅμα ἐς φιλίαν μετεβάλετο ὡς τούτους.
This Hieron established friendship with Pyrrhus, the son of Aeacides, and along with friendship, also an alliance by marriage, taking Nereis, the daughter of Pyrrhus, for his son Gelo. When the Romans entered into war with the Carthaginians over Sicily, the Carthaginians held more than half of the island, and at the very beginning of their coming into the war, Hieron favored choosing the side of the Carthaginians, but not long afterwards, believing that the power of the Romans was stronger and at the same time more secure, he changed over to friendship with them.
τοῦ δέ οἱ βίου συνέβη γενέσθαι τὴν τελευτὴν ὑπὸ Δεινομένους, γένος μὲν Συρακουσίου, δυσμενέστατα δὲ ἀνδρὸς ἐς τυραννίδα ἔχοντος, ὃς καὶ ὕστερον τούτων Ἱπποκράτει τῷ ἀδελφῷ τῷ Ἐπικύδους ἐξ Ἐρβησσοῦ παρεληλυθότι ἄρτι ἐς Συρακούσας καὶ ἐς τὸ πλῆθος ποιεῖσθαι λόγους ἀρχομένῳ ἐπέδραμεν ὡς ἀποκτενῶν τὸν Ἱπποκράτην· τοῦ δέ οἱ ἀντιστάντος, κρατήσαντες τῶν δορυφόρων ἄλλοι διαφθείρουσι τὸν Δεινομένην. τοὺς ἀνδριάντας δὲ τοῦ Ἱέρωνος ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ, ἐφʼ ἵππου τὸν ἕτερον, τὸν δὲ αὐτῶν πεζόν, ἀνέθεσαν μὲν τοῦ Ἱέρωνος οἱ παῖδες, ἐποίησε δὲ Μίκων Νικηράτου Συρακούσιος.
But it happened that his life was ended by Deinomenes, a man of Syracusan descent who was most hostile to tyranny. This man, even after these events, rushed upon Hippocrates, the brother of Epicydes, who had just come from Herbessus to Syracuse and was beginning to address the multitude, with the intention of killing Hippocrates; but when Hippocrates resisted him, others who had overpowered his bodyguards killed Deinomenes. As for the statues of Hieron in Olympia, one on horseback and the other on foot, his children dedicated them, and Micon the son of Niceratus, a Syracusan, made them.
μετὰ δὲ τοῦ Ἱέρωνος τὰς εἰκόνας Ἀρεὺς ὁ Ἀκροτάτου Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεὺς καὶ Ἄρατος ἕστηκεν ὁ Κλεινίου, καὶ αὖθις ἀναβεβηκώς ἐστιν Ἀρεὺς ἵππον. ἀνάθημα δὲ ὁ μὲν Κορινθίων ὁ Ἄρατος, Ἀρεὺς δὲ Ἠλείων ἐστί· καί μοι τοῦ λόγου τὰ πρότερα οὔτε τῶν ἐς Ἄρατον οὔτε τῶν ἐς Ἀρέα ἀμνημόνως ἔσχεν, Ἄρατος δὲ καὶ ἅρματι ἀνηγορεύθη νικῶν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ.
After the images of Hieron stand Areus, the son of Acrotatus, king of the Lacedaemonians, and Aratus, the son of Cleinias, and again Areus is mounted upon a horse. Aratus is a dedication of the Corinthians, but Areus is of the Eleans; and the earlier parts of my narrative did not fail to mention the things concerning Aratus or those concerning Areus, and Aratus was also proclaimed victor with a chariot in Olympia.
Τίμωνι δὲ τῷ Αἰσύπου καθέντι ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἵππους ἀνδρὶ Ἠλείῳ ἐστι τοῦτο χαλκοῦν, ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἀναβέβηκε παρθένος, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν Νίκη. Κάλλωνα δὲ τὸν Ἁρμοδίου καὶ τὸν Μοσχίωνος Ἱππόμαχον, γένος τε Ἠλείους καὶ πυγμῇ κρατήσαντας ἐν παισί, τὸν μὲν αὐτῶν ἐποίησε Δάιππος, Ἱππομάχου δὲ ὅστις μὲν τὸν ἀνδριάντα εἰργάσατο οὐκ ἴσμεν, καταμαχέσασθαι δὲ τρεῖς φασιν ἀνταγωνιστὰς αὐτὸν οὔτε πληγὴν ἀποδεξάμενον οὔτε τι τρωθέντα τοῦ σώματος.
For Timon, the son of Aesypus, an Elean who sent horses to Olympia, there is this bronze monument, and a maiden is mounted upon it, in my opinion, Victory. As for Callon, the son of Harmodius, and Hippomachus, the son of Moschion, both of Elean descent who conquered in the boys’ boxing, Daippus made the statue of one of them, but as for Hippomachus, we do not know who made his statue, but they say that he defeated three opponents without receiving a blow or being at all wounded in his body.
Θεόχρηστον δὲ Κυρηναῖον ἱπποτροφήσαντα κατὰ τὸ ἐπιχώριον τοῖς Λίβυσι καὶ αὐτόν τε ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ ἔτι πρότερον τὸν ὁμώνυμόν τε αὐτῷ καὶ τοῦ πατρὸς πατέρα, τούτους μὲν ἐνταῦθα ἵππων νίκας, ἐν δὲ Ἰσθμῷ τοῦ Θεοχρήστου λαβεῖν τὸν πατέρα, τὸ ἐπίγραμμα δηλοῖ τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ ἅρματι.
That Theochrestus of Cyrene, who bred horses according to the local custom of the Libyans, and he himself at Olympia, and even earlier his namesake and grandfather, won horse victories here, and that the father of Theochrestus won at the Isthmus, is shown by the inscription on the chariot.
Ἀγήσαρχον δὲ τὸν Αἱμοστράτου Τριταιέα κρατῆσαι μὲν πύκτας ἄνδρας ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ Νεμέᾳ τε καὶ Πυθοῖ καὶ ἐν Ἰσθμῷ μαρτυρεῖ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον, Ἀρκάδας δὲ τοὺς Τριταιεῖς εἶναι τοῦ ἐλεγείου λέγοντος οὐκ ἀληθεύοντα εὕρισκον.4 πόλεων γὰρ τῶν ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ ταῖς μὲν ἐπειλημμέναις δόξης οὐδὲ τὰ ἐς τοὺς οἰκιστάς ἐστιν ἄγνωστα, τὰς δὲ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τε ὑπὸ ἀσθενείας ἀφανεστέρας καὶ διʼ αὐτὸ ἀνοικισθείσας ἐς Μεγάλην πόλιν, οὐ περιέχει σφᾶς γενόμενον τότε ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀρκάδων κοινοῦ δόγμα;
That Agesarchus, the son of Haemostratus, from Tritaia, conquered in the men’s boxing at Olympia, and at Nemea, Pytho, and the Isthmus, is witnessed by the elegiac inscription; but when the elegiac inscription says that the Tritaians are Arcadians, I found it not speaking the truth. For of the cities in Arcadia, those that have acquired fame, even the facts concerning their founders are not unknown, while those which from the beginning were obscure because of weakness and for that very reason were combined into Megalopolis, are they not included in the decree made at that time by the Arcadian League?
οὐδέ τινα ἔστιν ἐν Ἕλλησι Τρίτειαν πόλιν ἄλλην γε ἢ τὴν Ἀχαιῶν εὑρεῖν. τηνικαῦτα γοῦν ἐς Ἀρκάδας ἡγοῖτο ἄν τις συντελέσαι τοὺς Τριταιεῖς,5 καθὰ καὶ νῦν ἔτι Ἀρκάδων αὐτῶν εἰσιν οἱ ἐς τὸ Ἀργολικὸν τελοῦντες. τοῦ Ἀγησάρχου δέ ἐστιν ἡ εἰκὼν τέχνη τῶν Πολυκλέους παίδων. τούτων μὲν δὴ ποιησόμεθα μνήμην καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὑστέροις τοῦ λόγου·
Nor is it possible to find among the Greeks any other city named Tritaia than that of the Achaeans. At that time, indeed, one might suppose that the Tritaians contributed to the Arcadians, just as even now there are some of the Arcadians themselves who contribute to the Argolic League. The image of Agesarchus is the work of the children of Polycles. Of these we shall make mention also in the later parts of our narrative.
- 6.12.1ὁ μὲν ἀποδοὺς τῷ θεῷ Δεινομένης ἐστὶν ὁ Ἱέρωνος
The aorist participle with article ὁ ἀποδοὺς is used substantively to mean 'the one who paid/fulfilled the vow'. ὁ Ἱέρωνος is a genitive of relationship with the omitted noun υἱός (son), a standard Greek idiom for filiation.
- 6.12.2ἣν Κυρηναῖος στάδιον ἐνίκησεν Ἰδαῖος
The feminine relative pronoun ἣν has Ὀλυμπιάδος (Olympiad) as its antecedent. στάδιον (stadium race) is a cognate accusative or accusative of inner object with the verb ἐνίκησεν, indicating the contest won.
- 6.12.3Ἱέρωνι δὲ συνιόντων μὲν ἄρτι ἐς τὸν πόλεμον ἑλέσθαι τὰ Καρχηδονίων ἤρεσε
The verb ἤρεσε is used impersonally ('it pleased [someone], [someone] decided') taking the dative Ἱέρωνι. συνιόντων is a genitive absolute plural whose omitted subject refers to the combatants (the Romans and Carthaginians) entering the war.
- 6.12.8Ἀρκάδας δὲ τοὺς Τριταιεῖς εἶναι τοῦ ἐλεγείου λέγοντος οὐκ ἀληθεύοντα εὕρισκον
The participle λέγοντος modifies τοῦ ἐλεγείου (the elegiac inscription). The accusative with infinitive clause Ἀρκάδας ... εἶναι ('that the Tritaians are Arcadians') is the object of λέγοντος. This entire structure acts as the object clause under the main verb εὕρισκον (I found).
- 6.12.9τηνικαῦτα γοῦν ἐς Ἀρκάδας ἡγοῖτο ἄν τις συντελέσαι τοὺς Τριταιεῖς
The optative with ἄν (ἡγοῖτο ἄν) expresses a potentiality ('one might suppose'). The infinitive συντελέσαι with the preposition ἐς means 'to contribute to/be classed with' in a political or administrative sense, completing ἡγοῖτο.