§1.23.1Περίανδρος δὲ ἦν Κυψέλου παῖς οὗτος ὁ τῷ Θρασυβούλῳ τὸ χρηστήριον μηνύσας· ἐτυράννευε δὲ ὁ Περίανδρος Κορίνθου·
This Periander, who had revealed the oracle to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and he was the tyrant of Corinth.
τῷ δὴ λέγουσι Κορίνθιοι (ὁμολογέουσι δέ σφι Λέσβιοι) ἐν τῷ βίῳ θῶμα μέγιστον παραστῆναι, Ἀρίονα τὸν Μηθυμναῖον ἐπὶ δελφῖνος ἐξενειχθέντα ἐπὶ Ταίναρον, ἐόντα κιθαρῳδὸν τῶν τότε ἐόντων οὐδενὸς δεύτερον, καὶ διθύραμβον πρῶτον ἀνθρώπων τῶν ἡμεῖς ἴδμεν ποιήσαντά τε καὶ ὀνομάσαντα καὶ διδάξαντα ἐν Κορίνθῳ.
To him, as the Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree with them), there occurred in his lifetime a most wonderful thing: namely, that Arion of Methymna was carried ashore at Taenarum on a dolphin's back. This Arion was a citharode second to none of those of his time, and the first of all men whom we know to have composed, named, and taught the dithyramb in Corinth.