§9.74.1τούτου τοῦ δήμου ἐὼν ὁ Σωφάνης καὶ ἀριστεύσας τότε Ἀθηναίων διξοὺς λόγους λεγομένους ἔχει, τὸν μὲν ὡς ἐκ τοῦ ζωστῆρος τοῦ θώρηκος ἐφόρεε χαλκέῃ ἁλύσι δεδεμένην ἄγκυραν σιδηρέην, τὴν ὅκως πελάσειε ἀπικνεόμενος τοῖσι πολεμίοισι βαλλέσκετο, ἵνα δή μιν οἱ πολέμιοι ἐκπίπτοντες ἐκ τῆς τάξιος μετακινῆσαι μὴ δυναίατο· γινομένης δὲ φυγῆς τῶν ἐναντίων δέδοκτο τὴν ἄγκυραν ἀναλαβόντα οὕτω διώκειν.
Sophanes, being of this deme and having distinguished himself then among the Athenians, has two accounts told about him. The one is that from the belt of his breastplate he wore an iron anchor bound with a bronze chain, which he would cast whenever he drew near and reached the enemy, so that the enemy, when they charged out of their ranks, might not be able to move him; and when a flight of the opponents occurred, it had been resolved by him to take up the anchor and so pursue them.
§9.74.2οὗτος μὲν οὕτω λέγεται, ὁ δʼ ἕτερος τῶν λόγων τῷ πρότερον λεχθέντι ἀμφισβατέων λέγεται, ὡς ἐπʼ ἀσπίδος αἰεὶ περιθεούσης καὶ οὐδαμὰ ἀτρεμιζούσης ἐφόρεε ἄγκυραν, καὶ οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ θώρηκος δεδεμένην σιδηρέην.
This is how the one story is told, but the other of the stories, disputing the one told before, is told, namely that he wore an anchor on his shield which was ever spinning round and never still, and not an iron one bound to his breastplate.