§4.68.1τούτων δʼ ἡμῖν διευκρινημένων, πειρασόμεθα διελθεῖν περὶ Σαλμωνέως καὶ Τυροῦς καὶ τῶν ἀπογόνων ἕως Νέστορος τοῦ στρατεύσαντος ἐπὶ Τροίαν.
These matters having been clarified by us, we shall endeavor to treat of Salmoneus and Tyro and their descendants down to Nestor, who campaigned against Troy.
Σαλμωνεὺς γὰρ ἦν υἱὸς Αἰόλου τοῦ Ἕλληνος τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος· οὗτος δʼ ἐκ τῆς Αἰολίδος ὁρμηθεὶς μετὰ πλειόνων Αἰολέων ᾤκισε τῆς Ἠλείας παρὰ τὸν Ἀλφειὸν ποταμὸν πόλιν καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ Σαλμωνίαν.
For Salmoneus was a son of Aeolus, the son of Hellen, the son of Deucalion; and setting out from Aeolis with many Aeolians, he founded a city in Elis by the Alpheus river and called it Salmonia after himself.
γήμας δʼ Ἀλκιδίκην τὴν Ἀλέου ἐγέννησε θυγατέρα τὴν προσαγορευθεῖσαν Τυρώ, κάλλει διαφέρουσαν.
And having married Alcidice, the daughter of Aleus, he begot a daughter named Tyro, who was of outstanding beauty.
§4.68.2τῆς δὲ γυναικὸς Ἀλκιδίκης ἀποθανούσης ἐπέγημε τὴν ὀνομαζομένην Σιδηρώ· αὕτη δὲ χαλεπῶς διετέθη πρὸς τὴν Τυρώ, ὡς ἂν μητρυιά.
When his wife Alcidice died, he married in addition the woman named Sidero; and she, as a stepmother naturally would, behaved harshly toward Tyro.
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Σαλμωνεύς, ὑβριστὴς ὢν καὶ ἀσεβής, ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων ἐμισήθη, ὑπὸ δὲ Διὸς διὰ τὴν ἀσέβειαν ἐκεραυνώθη.
After this, Salmoneus, being insolent and impious, was hated by his subjects, and because of his impiety was struck by thunderbolt by Zeus.
§4.68.3τῇ δὲ Τυροῖ, παρθένῳ κατʼ ἐκείνους τοὺς χρόνους οὔσῃ, Ποσειδῶν μιγεὶς παῖδας ἐγέννησε Πελίαν καὶ Νηλέα.
And Poseidon, having united with Tyro, who at that time was a virgin, begot sons Pelias and Neleus.
ἡ δὲ Τυρὼ συνοικήσασα Κρηθεῖ ἐτέκνωσεν Ἀμυθάονα καὶ Φέρητα καὶ Αἴσονα.
Tyro then lived with Cretheus and bore Amythaon, Pheres, and Aeson.
Κρηθέως δὲ τελευτήσαντος ἐστασίασαν περὶ τῆς βασιλείας Πελίας τε καὶ Νηλεύς· τούτων δὲ Πελίας μὲν Ἰωλκοῦ καὶ τῶν πλησίον χωρίων ἐβασίλευσε, Νηλεὺς δὲ παραλαβὼν Μελάμποδα καὶ Βίαντα τοὺς Ἀμυθάονος καὶ Ἀγλαΐας υἱοὺς καί τινας ἄλλους τῶν Ἀχαιῶν Φθιωτῶν καὶ τῶν Αἰολέων ἐστράτευσεν εἰς Πελοπόννησον.
When Cretheus died, Pelias and Neleus quarreled over the kingship; of these, Pelias ruled over Iolcus and the neighboring regions, while Neleus, taking with him Melampus and Bias, the sons of Amythaon and Aglaia, and certain others of the Phthiotic Achaeans and of the Aeolians, campaigned into Peloponnese.
§4.68.4καὶ Μελάμπους μὲν μάντις ὢν τὰς Ἀργείας γυναῖκας μανείσας διὰ τὴν Διονύσου μῆνιν ἐθεράπευσεν, ἀντὶ δὲ ταύτης τῆς εὐεργεσίας χάριν ἔλαβε παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Ἀργείων Ἀναξαγόρου τοῦ Μεγαπένθους τὰ δύο μέρη τῆς βασιλείας· κατοικήσας δʼ ἐν Ἄργει κοινὴν ἐποιήσατο τὴν βασιλείαν Βίαντι τῷ ἀδελφῷ.
And Melampus, being a seer, cured the Argive women who had gone mad because of the wrath of Dionysus, and in return for this benefaction he received as a reward from the king of the Argives, Anaxagoras the son of Megapenthes, two-thirds of the kingdom; and having settled in Argos, he made the kingship common with his brother Bias.
§4.68.5γήμας δὲ Ἰφιάνειραν τὴν Μεγαπένθους ἐτέκνωσεν Ἀντιφάτην καὶ Μαντώ, ἔτι δὲ Βίαντα καὶ Προνόην· Ἀντιφάτου δὲ καὶ Ζευξίππης τῆς Ἱπποκόωντος Οἰκλῆς καὶ Ἀμφάλκης ὑπῆρξαν, Οἰκλέους δὲ καὶ Ὑπερμνήστρας τῆς Θεσπίου Ἰφιάνειρα καὶ Πολύβοια καὶ Ἀμφιάραος ἐγένοντο.
And having married Iphianeira, the daughter of Megapenthes, he begot Antiphates and Manto, and furthermore Bias and Pronoe; and of Antiphates and Zeuxippe, the daughter of Hippocoon, Oicles and Amphalces were born; and of Oicles and Hypermestra, the daughter of Thespius, were born Iphianeira, Polyboea, and Amphiaraus.
§4.68.6Μελάμπους μὲν οὖν καὶ Βίας καὶ οἱ ἀπʼ ἐκείνων οὕτω τῆς ἐν Ἄργει βασιλείας μετέσχον, Νηλεὺς δὲ μετὰ τῶν συνακολουθησάντων παραγενόμενος εἰς Μεσσήνην πόλιν ἔκτισε Πύλον, δόντων αὐτῷ τῶν ἐγχωρίων.
So Melampus and Bias and their descendants in this way shared in the kingship in Argos; but Neleus, having arrived in Messene with those who accompanied him, founded the city of Pylos, the inhabitants of the land having given it to him.
ταύτης δὲ βασιλεύων καὶ γήμας Χλῶριν τὴν Ἀμφίονος τοῦ Θηβαίου, παῖδας ἐγέννησε δώδεκα, ὧν ἦν πρεσβύτατος μὲν Περικλύμενος, νεώτατος δὲ Νέστωρ ὁ ἐπὶ Τροίαν στρατεύσας.
Ruling over this and marrying Chloris, the daughter of Amphion the Theban, he begot twelve sons, of whom the eldest was Periclymenus, and the youngest Nestor, who campaigned against Troy.
περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν Νέστορος προγόνων ἀρκεσθησόμεθα τοῖς ῥηθεῖσι, στοχαζόμενοι τῆς συμμετρίας,
Concerning, then, the ancestors of Nestor, we shall be satisfied with what has been said, aiming at due proportion,