§13τί τὸ πτωχικὸν κρέας παρʼ Αἰνιᾶσι;
What is the "beggar's meat" among the Aenianes?
πλείονες γεγόνασιν Αἰνιάνων μεταναστάσεις.
There have been several migrations of the Aenianes.
πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ οἰκοῦντες περὶ τὸ Δώτιον πεδίον ἐξέπεσον ὑπὸ Λαπιθῶν εἰς Αἴθικας.
For first, when they inhabited the region around the Dotian plain, they were driven out by the Lapiths to the Aethices.
ἐκεῖθεν τῆς Μολοττίας τὴν περὶ τὸν Αὔαν χώραν; κατέσχον, ὅθεν ὠνομάσθησαν Παραυαῖοι.
From there they occupied the territory around the Auas in Molossia, whence they were named Parauaei.
; μετὰ ταῦτα Κίρραν κατέσχον· ἐν δὲ Κίρρᾳ καταλεύσαντες Οἴνοκλον τὸν βασιλέα, τοῦ θεοῦ προστάξαντος, εἰς τὴν περὶ τὸν Ἴναχον χώραν κατέβησαν οἰκουμένην ὑπʼ Ἰναχιέων καὶ Ἀχαιῶν.
After this they occupied Kirrha; and in Kirrha, having stoned to death their king Oenoclus by the command of the god, they descended into the territory around the Inachus, which was inhabited by the Inachians and Achaeans.
γενομένου δὲ χρησμοῦ τοῖς μὲν ἂν μεταδῶσι τῆς χώρας ἀποβαλεῖν ἅπασαν, τοῖς δὲ ἂν λάβωσι παρʼ ἑκόντων καθέξειν, Τέμων, ἀνὴρ ἐλλόγιμος τῶν Αἰνιάνων, ἀναλαβὼν ῥάκια καὶ πήραν ὡς προσαίτης ὢν ἀφίκετο πρὸς τοὺς Ἰναχιεῖς· ὕβρει δὲ καὶ πρὸς γέλωτα τοῦ βασιλέως βῶλον ἐπιδόντος αὐτῷ, δεξάμενος εἰς τὴν πήραν ἐνέβαλε καὶ καταφανὴς ἦν ἠγαπηκὼς τὸ δῶρον ἀπεχώρησε γὰρ εὐθὺς οὐδὲν προσαιτήσας.
When an oracle was given that those who should share the land would lose all of it, but those who should receive it from willing givers would keep it, Temon, a distinguished man of the Aenianes, took rags and a scrip, and came to the Inachians as if he were a beggar; and when the king, out of insolence and to make a laugh, offered him a clod of earth, he accepted it, put it into his scrip, and was clearly delighted with the gift, for he departed immediately without begging for anything more.
οἱ δὲ πρεσβύτεροι θαυμάσαντες ἀνεμιμνήσκοντο τοῦ χρησμοῦ, καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ προσιόντες ἔλεγον μὴ καταφρονῆσαι μηδὲ προέσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον.
The elders, wondering at this, remembered the oracle, and going to the king, told him not to despise or let the man go.
αἰσθόμενος οὖν ὁ Τέμων τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν ὥρμησε φεύγειν, καὶ διέφυγεν εὐξάμενος τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι καθʼ ἑκατόμβης.
Temon, perceiving their intention, hastened to flee, and escaped after vowing a hecatomb to Apollo.
ἐκ δὲ τούτου μονομαχοῦσιν οἱ βασιλεῖς, καὶ τὸν τῶν Ἰναχιέων Ὑπέροχον ὁ τῶν Αἰνιάνων Φήμιος ὁρῶν μετὰ κυνὸς αὐτῷ προσφερόμενον οὐκ ἔφη δίκαια ποιεῖν, δεύτερον ἐπάγοντα μαχόμενον·
After this the kings fought in single combat, and Phemius, the king of the Aenianes, seeing Hyperochus, the king of the Inachians, coming against him with a dog, said that he was not doing what was right, bringing a second combatant.
ἀπελαύνοντος δὲ τοῦ Ὑπερόχου τὸν κύνα καὶ μεταστρεφομένου, λίθῳ βαλὼν ὁ Φήμιος αὐτὸν ἀναιρεῖ.
When Hyperochus turned away to drive off the dog, Phemius struck him with a stone and killed him.
κτησάμενοι δὲ τὴν χώραν, τοὺς Ἰναχιεῖς μετὰ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἐκβαλόντες, τὸν μὲν λίθον ἐκεῖνον ὡς ἱερὸν σέβονται καὶ θύουσιν αὐτῷ καὶ τοῦ ἱερείου τῷ δημῷ περικαλύπτουσιν.
Having acquired the land and expelled the Inachians along with the Achaeans, they worship that stone as sacred, sacrifice to it, and cover it with the fat of the victim.
ὅταν δὲ τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τὴν ἑκατόμβην ἀποδιδῶσι, τῷ Διὶ βοῦν καθιερεύσαντες, μερίδα τοῖς Τέμωνος ἀπογόνοις ἐξαίρετον νέμουσι, καὶ
πτωχικὸν κρέας
ἐπονομάζουσι. §14τίνες οἱ παρʼ Ἰθακησίοις Κολιάδαι καὶ τίς ὁ φάγιλος;
And when they render the hecatomb to Apollo, after consecrating a bull to Zeus, they distribute a choice portion to the descendants of Temon, and they name it "beggar's meat." Who are the "Coliadae" among the Ithacans, and what is the "phagilos"?
; τῷ Ὀδυσσεῖ μετὰ τὴν μνηστηροφονίαν οἱ ἐπιτήδειοι τῶν τεθνηκότων ἐπανέστησαν, μεταπεμφθεὶς δʼ ὑπʼ ἀμφοτέρων διαιτητὴς Νεοπτόλεμος ἐδικαίωσε τὸν μὲν Ὀδυσσέα μεταναστῆναι καὶ φεύγειν ἐκ τῆς Κεφαλληνίας καὶ Ζακύνθου καὶ Ἰθάκης ἐφʼ αἵματι, τοὺς δὲ τῶν μνηστήρων ἑταίρους καὶ οἰκείους ἀποφέρειν ποινὴν Ὀδυσσεῖ τῶν εἰς τὸν οἶκον ἀδικημάτων καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτόν.
After the slaughter of the suitors, the relatives of the deceased rose up against Odysseus; but Neoptolemus, being sent for by both sides as an arbitrator, decided that Odysseus should migrate and flee from Cephallenia, Zacynthus, and Ithaca because of blood-guilt, and that the companions and relatives of the suitors should pay a penalty every year to Odysseus for the wrongs done to his house.
αὐτὸς μὲν οὖν εἰς Ἰταλίαν μετέστη· τὴν δὲ ποινὴν τῷ υἱεῖ καθιερώσας ἀποφέρειν ἐν ἐκέλευσε τοὺς Ἰθακησίους.
He himself migrated to Italy; but having consecrated the penalty to his son, he ordered the Ithacans to pay it.
ἦν δὲ ἄλφιτα οἶνος κηρία ἔλαιον ἅλες ἱερεῖα πρεσβύτερα
φαγίλων· φάγιλον δὲ
φησιν Ἀριστοτέλης τὸν ἀμνὸν εἶναι.
It consisted of barley meal, wine, honeycombs, oil, salt, and victims older than "phagiloi"; and Aristotle says that a "phagilos" is a lamb.
τοὺς δὲ περὶ Εὔμαιον ἐλευθερώσας ὁ Τηλέμαχος κατέμειξεν εἰς τοὺς πολίτας, καὶ τὸ γένος ἐστὶ Κολιαδῶν ἀπʼ Εὐμαίου καὶ Βουκολιδῶν ἀπὸ Φιλοιτίου.
Telemachus, having freed those around Eumaeus, mixed them among the citizens, and the family of the Coliadae is descended from Eumaeus, and that of the Bucolidae from Philoetius.
§15τίς ἡ ξυλίνη κύων παρὰ Λοκροῖς;
What is the "wooden dog" among the Locrians?
Φυσκίου τοῦ Ἀμφικτύονος υἱὸς ἦν Λοκροῖς· ἐκ δὲ τούτου καὶ Καβύης Ὀποῦς.
Locrus was the son of Physcius, the son of Amphictyon; and from him and Cabye came Opus.
πρὸς ὃν ὁ πατὴρ διενεχθεὶς καὶ συχνοὺς τῶν πολιτῶν ἀναλαβὼν περὶ ἀποικίας ἐμαντεύετο.
Having quarreled with him, his father took many of the citizens and consulted the oracle about a colony.
τοῦ δὲ θεοῦ φήσαντος κτίζειν πόλιν ὅπουπερ ἂν τύχῃ δηχθεὶς ὑπὸ κυνὸς ξυλίνης, ὑπερβαίνων εἰς τὴν ἑτέραν θάλατταν ἐπάτησε κυνόσβατον.
The god having said that he should build a city wherever he should happen to be bitten by a wooden dog, as he was crossing over to the other sea, he stepped on a wild briar.
ἐνοχληθεὶς δὲ τῇ πληγῇ διέτριψεν ἡμέρας αὐτόθι πλείονας, ἐν αἷς καταμαθὼν τὸ χωρίον ἔκτισε πόλεις Φύσκον καὶ Οἰάνθειαν, καὶ τὰς ἄλλας, ὅσας οἱ κληθέντες Ὀζόλαι Λοκροὶ κατῴκησαν.
Being troubled by the wound, he spent several days there, during which, having reconnoitered the place, he built the cities of Physcus and Oeantheia, and the others which the so-called Ozolian Locrians inhabited.
Ὀζόλας δὲ Λοκροὺς οἱ μὲν διὰ τὸν Νέσσον, οἱ δὲ διὰ τὸν Πύθωνα δράκοντα κληθῆναι λέγουσιν, ἐκβρασθέντας ὑπὸ τῆς θαλάττης καὶ σαπέντας ἐν τῇ τῶν Λοκρῶν χώρᾳ.
Some say that the Ozolian Locrians were so called because of Nessus, and others because of the serpent Python, who were cast up by the sea and rotted in the land of the Locrians.
τινὲς δὲ κώδια καὶ τραγέας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους φοροῦντας καὶ τὰ πλεῖστα συνόντας αἰπολίοις γενέσθαι δυσώδεις.
But some say that because the men wore sheepskins and goatskins and spent most of their time with goatherds, they became ill-smelling.
ἔνιοι δὲ τοὐναντίον πολυάνθεμον τὴν χώραν οὖσαν ὑπʼ εὐωδίας τοὔνομα λαβεῖν· ὧν ἐστι καὶ Ἀρχύτας ὁ Ἀμφισσεύς· γέγραφε γὰρ οὕτω
"τὰν βοτρυοστέφανον μυρίπνουν Μάκυναν ἐραννήν. "
Some, on the contrary, say that because the land was rich in flowers, it received its name from its sweet scent; among whom is Archytas of Amphissa, for he has written thus: "Lovely Macyna, crowned with clusters, breathing myriad perfumes."