§3.50.1ἐπείτε γὰρ τὴν ἑωυτοῦ γυναῖκα Μέλισσαν Περίανδρος ἀπέκτεινε, συμφορὴν τοιήνδε οἱ ἄλλην συνέβη πρὸς τῇ γεγονυίῃ γενέσθαι.
For when Periander had killed his own wife Melissa, it happened to him that another misfortune, such as follows, befell him in addition to the one that had already occurred.
ἦσάν οἱ ἐκ Μελίσσης δύο παῖδες, ἡλικίην ὃ μὲν ἑπτακαίδεκα ὁ δὲ ὀκτωκαίδεκα ἔτεα γεγονώς.
He had two sons by Melissa, one of them seventeen and the other eighteen years of age.
§3.50.2τούτους ὁ μητροπάτωρ Προκλέης ἐὼν Ἐπιδαύρου τύραννος μεταπεμψάμενος παρʼ ἑωυτὸν ἐφιλοφρονέετο, ὡς οἰκὸς ἦν θυγατρὸς ἐόντας τῆς ἑωυτοῦ παῖδας.
Their mother's father Procles, who was tyrant of Epidaurus, sent for them to come to him and treated them with affection, as was natural since they were the children of his own daughter.
ἐπείτε δὲ σφέας ἀπεπέμπετο, εἶπε προπέμπων αὐτούς §3.50.3ἆρα ἴστε, ὦ παῖδες, ὃς ὑμέων τὴν μητέρα ἀπέκτεινε; τοῦτο τὸ ἔπος ὁ μὲν πρεσβύτερος αὐτῶν ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ ἐποιήσατο· ὁ δὲ νεώτερος, τῷ οὔνομα ἦν Λυκόφρων, ἤλγησε ἀκούσας οὕτω ὥστε ἀπικόμενος ἐς τὴν Κόρινθον ἅτε φονέα τῆς μητρὸς τὸν πατέρα οὔτε προσεῖπε, διαλεγομένῳ τε οὔτε προσδιελέγετο ἱστορέοντί τε λόγον οὐδένα ἐδίδου.
And when he was sending them away, he said to them as he escorted them: "Do you know, children, who it was that killed your mother?" Of this saying, the elder of them took no account; but the younger, whose name was Lycophron, was so deeply grieved upon hearing it that, when he arrived in Corinth, regarding his father as the murderer of his mother, he neither addressed him, nor, when his father spoke to him, did he speak in response, nor did he give any answer to his questions.
τέλος δέ μιν περιθύμως ἔχων ὁ Περίανδρος ἐξελαύνει ἐκ τῶν οἰκίων.
And finally, Periander, in great anger, drove him out of the house.