§3.131.1ὁ δὲ Δημοκήδης οὗτος ὧδε ἐκ Κρότωνος ἀπιγμένος Πολυκράτεϊ ὡμίλησε·
This Democedes, having arrived from Croton in the following manner, associated with Polycrates.
πατρὶ συνείχετο ἐν τῇ Κρότωνι ὀργὴν χαλεπῷ· τοῦτον ἐπείτε οὐκ ἐδύνατο φέρειν, ἀπολιπὼν οἴχετο ἐς Αἴγιναν.
In Croton he was hard pressed by a father of a difficult temper; since he could not bear him, he left him and departed for Aegina.
καταστὰς δὲ ἐς ταύτην πρώτῳ ἔτεϊ ὑπερεβάλετο τοὺς ἄλλους ἰητρούς, ἀσκευής περ ἐὼν καὶ ἔχων οὐδὲν τῶν ὅσα περὶ τὴν τέχνην ἐστὶ ἐργαλήια.
Having established himself there, in his first year he surpassed the other physicians, although he was without equipment and possessed none of the tools that belong to the art.
§3.131.2καί μιν δευτέρῳ ἔτεϊ ταλάντου Αἰγινῆται δημοσίῃ μισθοῦνται, τρίτῳ δὲ ἔτεϊ Ἀθηναῖοι ἑκατὸν μνέων, τετάρτῳ δὲ ἔτεϊ Πολυκράτης δυῶν ταλάντων.
And in the second year the Aeginetans hired him at public expense for a salary of a talent, and in the third year the Athenians for a hundred minae, and in the fourth year Polycrates for two talents.
οὕτω μὲν ἀπίκετο ἐς τὴν Σάμον, καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς οὐκ ἥκιστα Κροτωνιῆται ἰητροὶ εὐδοκίμησαν.
In this way he arrived in Samos, and it was not least because of this man that the physicians of Croton came to be highly esteemed.
§3.131.3ἐγένετο γὰρ ὦν τοῦτο ὅτε πρῶτοι μὲν Κροτωνιῆται ἰητροὶ ἐλέγοντο ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα εἶναι, δεύτεροι δὲ Κυρηναῖοι.
For this happened at the time when the physicians of Croton were said to be the first throughout Greece, and those of Cyrene the second.
κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τοῦτον χρόνον καὶ Ἀργεῖοι ἤκουον μουσικὴν εἶναι Ἑλλήνων πρῶτοι.
At this same time the Argives also had the reputation of being the first of the Greeks in music.