§3.1ἤθελον Χείρωνά κε Φιλλυρίδαν, §3.2εἰ χρεὼν τοῦθʼ ἁμετέρας ἀπὸ γλώσσας κοινὸν εὔξασθαι ἔπος, §3.3ζώειν τὸν ἀποιχόμενον, §3.4Οὐρανίδα γόνον εὐρυμέδοντα Κρόνου, βάσσαισί τʼ ἄρχειν Παλίου Φῆρʼ ἀγρότερον, §3.5νοῦν ἔχοντʼ ἀνδρῶν φίλον· οἷος ἐὼν θρέψεν ποτὲ §3.6τέκτονα νωδυνίας ἅμερον γυιαρκέος Ἀσκλήπιον, §3.7ἥρωα παντοδαπᾶν ἀλκτῆρα νούσων.
I would have wished that Chiron, the son of Philyra, if it were right to pray for this common word from my tongue, were still living, the departed one, the wide-ruling descendant of Cronus, son of Uranus, and that he ruled in the glens of Pelion, that wild beast of the field, possessing a mind friendly to men; such as he was when he once reared Asclepius, the gentle creator of pain-relieving, limb-healing health, the hero who was the defender against all kinds of diseases.
§3.8τὸν μὲν εὐΐππου Φλεγύα θυγάτηρ §3.9πρὶν τελέσσαι ματροπόλῳ σὺν Ἐλειθυίᾳ, δαμεῖσα χρυσέοις §3.10τόξοισιν ὕπʼ Ἀρτέμιδος, §3.11εἰς Ἀΐδα δόμον ἐν θαλάμῳ κατέβα τέχναις Ἀπόλλωνος.
Him indeed, before the daughter of Phlegyas of fine horses could bring him to birth with Eleithyia who aids mothers, being subdued by the golden bow under Artemis, went down into the house of Hades in her chamber by the arts of Apollo.
χόλος δʼ οὐκ ἀλίθιος §3.12γίνεται παίδων Διός.
The anger of the children of Zeus is not in vain.
ἁ δʼ ἀποφλαυρίξαισά νιν §3.13ἀμπλακίαισι φρενῶν, ἄλλον αἴνησεν γάμον κρύβδαν πατρός, §3.14πρόσθεν ἀκειρεκόμᾳ μιχθεῖσα Φοίβῳ, §3.15καὶ φέροισα σπέρμα θεοῦ καθαρόν.
But she, making light of him in the errors of her mind, accepted another marriage in secret from her father, having previously mingled with Phoebus of the uncut hair, and bearing the pure seed of the god.
§3.16οὐδʼ ἔμεινʼ ἐλθεῖν τράπεζαν νυμφίαν §3.17οὐδὲ παμφώνων ἰαχὰν ὑμεναίων, ἅλικες §3.18οἷα παρθένοι φιλέοισιν ἑταίρᾳ §3.19ἑσπερίαις ὑποκουρίζεσθʼ ἀοιδαῖς· ἀλλά τοι §3.20ἤρατο τῶν ἀπεόντων·
She did not wait for the bridal table to come, nor the sound of the loud-voiced hymeneal songs, such as maiden companions of her own age love to sing in teasing with evening songs to their companion; but indeed she fell in love with what was not there, as many have also suffered.
οἷα καὶ πολλοὶ πάθον. §3.21ἔστι δὲ φῦλον ἐν ἀνθρώποισι ματαιότατον, §3.22ὅστις αἰσχύνων ἐπιχώρια παπταίνει τὰ πόρσω, §3.23μεταμώνια θηρεύων ἀκράντοις ἐλπίσιν.
For there is a most foolish class among men, who, feeling shame at what is at home, looks about for what is far away, hunting winds with unfulfilled hopes.
Such a great delusion did the spirit of lovely-robed Coronis hold.
ἐλθόντος γὰρ εὐνάσθη ξένου §3.26λέκτροισιν ἀπʼ Ἀρκαδίας.
For she lay in bed with a stranger who came from Arcadia.
§3.27οὐδʼ ἔλαθε σκοπόν· ἐν δʼ ἄρα μηλοδόκῳ Πυθῶνι τόσσαις ἄϊεν ναοῦ βασιλεὺς §3.28Λοξίας, κοινᾶνι παρʼ εὐθυτάτῳ γνώμαν πιθών, §3.29πάντα ἰσάντι νόῳ· ψευδέων δʼ οὐχ ἅπτεται· κλέπτει τέ νιν §3.30οὐ θεὸς οὐ βροτὸς ἔργοις οὔτε βουλαῖς.
But she did not escape the watcher; for the king of the temple, in sheep-receiving Pytho, hearing it, Loxias, persuading his judgment with his own most upright partner, his all-knowing mind; and he does not touch falsehood, and neither god nor mortal deceives him in deeds or counsels.
§3.31καὶ τότε γνοὺς Ἴσχυος Εἰλατίδα §3.32ξεινίαν κοίταν ἄθεμίν τε δόλον, πέμψεν κασιγνήταν μένει §3.33θύοισαν ἀμαιμακέτῳ §3.34ἐς Λακέρειαν. ἐπεὶ παρὰ Βοιβιάδος κρημνοῖσιν ᾤκει παρθένος.
And then, having known the foreign bed and unlawful deceit of Ischys, son of Elatus, he sent his sister raging with irresistible might to Lacereia, since the maiden lived by the cliffs of Lake Boebeis.
δαίμων δʼ ἕτερος §3.35ἐς κακὸν τρέψαις ἐδαμάσσατό νιν· καὶ γειτόνων §3.36πολλοὶ ἐπαῦρον, ἁμᾷ δʼ ἔφθαρεν, πολλὰν δʼ ὄρει πῦρ ἐξ ἑνὸς §3.37σπέρματος ἐνθορὸν ἀΐστωσεν ὕλαν.
But another divinity (destiny), turning to evil, subdued her; and many of her neighbors shared the suffering and perished together, as a fire leaping from a single spark on a mountain destroys a vast forest.
§3.38ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ τείχει θέσαν ἐν ξυλίνῳ §3.39σύγγονοι κούραν, σέλας δʼ ἀμφέδραμεν §3.40λάβρον Ἁφαίστου, τότʼ ἔειπεν Ἀπόλλων· οὐκέτι §3.41τλάσομαι ψυχᾷ γένος ἀμὸν ὀλέσσαι §3.42οἰκτροτάτῳ θανάτῳ ματρὸς βαρείᾳ σὺν πάθᾳ. §3.43ὣς φάτο· βάματι δʼ ἐν πρώτῳ κιχὼν παῖδʼ ἐκ νεκροῦ §3.44ἅρπασε· καιομένα δʼ αὐτῷ διέφαινε πυρά· §3.45καί ῥά νιν Μάγνητι φέρων πόρε Κενταύρῳ διδάξαι §3.46πολυπήμονας ἀνθρώποισιν ἰᾶσθαι νόσους.
But when her kinsmen had placed the girl on the wooden wall, and the fierce flame of Hephaestus ran around her, then Apollo spoke: "No longer will I endure in my soul to destroy my offspring by a most pitiable death along with the heavy suffering of his mother." So he spoke; and reaching him at his first step, he snatched the child from the dead body, and the burning pyre parted for him; and carrying him, he gave him to the Magnesian Centaur to teach him to heal painful diseases for men.
§3.47τοὺς μὲν ὦν, ὅσσοι μόλον αὐτοφύτων §3.48ἑλκέων ξυνάονες, ἢ πολιῷ χαλκῷ μέλη τετρωμένοι §3.49ἢ χερμάδι τηλεβόλῳ, §3.50ἢ θερινῷ πυρὶ περθόμενοι δέμας ἢ χειμῶνι, λύσαις ἄλλον ἀλλοίων ἀχέων §3.51ἔξαγεν, τοὺς μὲν μαλακαῖς ἐπαοιδαῖς ἀμφέπων, §3.52τοὺς δὲ προσανέα πίνοντας, ἢ γυίοις περάπτων πάντοθεν §3.53φάρμακα, τοὺς δὲ τομαῖς ἔστασεν ὀρθούς.
Those indeed who came afflicted with self-grown sores, or with their limbs wounded by grey bronze, or by a far-thrown stone, or with their bodies wasted by summer heat or winter cold, releasing them, he led them out of different pains, tending some with gentle incantations, others by making them drink soothing draughts, or wrapping their limbs on all sides with remedies, and others he set upright by surgical cuts.
§3.54ἀλλὰ κέρδει καὶ σοφία δέδεται.
But even wisdom is bound by gain.
§3.55ἔτραπεν καὶ κεῖνον ἀγάνορι μισθῷ χρυσὸς ἐν χερσὶν φανεὶς §3.56ἄνδρʼ ἐκ θανάτου κομίσαι §3.57ἤδη ἁλωκότα· χερσὶ δʼ ἄρα Κρονίων ῥίψαις διʼ ἀμφοῖν ἀμπνοὰν στέρνων κάθελεν §3.58ὠκέως, αἴθων δὲ κεραυνὸς ἐνέσκιμψεν μόρον.
Gold appearing in his hands also turned even that man, with a magnificent bribe, to bring back from death a man already captured; then the son of Cronus, throwing with his hands through both of them, snatched away the breath from their chests swiftly, and the flashing thunderbolt inflicted doom.
§3.59χρὴ τὰ ἐοικότα πὰρ δαιμόνων μαστευέμεν θναταῖς φρασίν,
One must seek what is fitting from the gods with a mortal mind.