§5.57.1οἱ δʼ Ἡλιάδαι διάφοροι γενηθέντες τῶν ἄλλων ἐν παιδείᾳ διήνεγκαν καὶ μάλιστʼ ἐν ἀστρολογίᾳ.
The Heliadae, becoming superior to others, excelled in education and especially in astronomy.
εἰσηγήσαντο δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ναυτιλίας πολλὰ καὶ τὰ περὶ τὰς ὥρας διέταξαν.
They also introduced many things concerning navigation and regulated the matters concerning the seasons.
§5.57.2εὐφυέστατος δὲ γενόμενος Τενάγης ὑπὸ τῶν ἀδελφῶν διὰ φθόνον ἀνῃρέθη· γνωσθείσης δὲ τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς οἱ μετασχόντες τοῦ φόνου πάντες ἔφυγον.
Tenages, who was the most highly gifted of them, was murdered by his brothers out of envy; but when the plot became known, all those who had shared in the murder fled.
τούτων δὲ Μάκαρ μὲν εἰς Λέσβον ἀφίκετο, Κάνδαλος δὲ εἰς τὴν Κῶ· ἀκτὶς δʼ εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀπάρας ἔκτισε τὴν Ἡλιούπολιν ὀνομαζομένην, ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς θέμενος τὴν προσηγορίαν· οἱ δʼ Αἰγύπτιοι ἔμαθον παρʼ αὐτοῦ τὰ περὶ τὴν ἀστρολογίαν θεωρήματα.
Of these, Macar arrived in Lesbos, and Candalus in Cos; and Actis, sailing away to Egypt, founded the city called Heliopolis, giving it its name after his father; and the Egyptians learned from him the theorems concerning astronomy.
§5.57.3ὕστερον δὲ παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησι γενομένου κατακλυσμοῦ, καὶ διὰ τὴν ἐπομβρίαν τῶν πλείστων ἀνθρώπων ἀπολομένων, ὁμοίως τούτοις καὶ τὰ διὰ τῶν γραμμάτων ὑπομνήματα συνέβη φθαρῆναι·
But when, at a later time, a deluge occurred among the Greeks, and most of mankind perished because of the heavy rains, it happened that, in like manner with these, the records kept through written characters were also destroyed.
§5.57.4δι’ ἣν αἰτίαν οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι καιρὸν εὔθετον λαβόντες ἐξιδιοποιήσαντο τὰ περὶ τῆς ἀστρολογίας, καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων διὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν μηκέτι τῶν γραμμάτων ἀντιποιουμένων ἐνίσχυσεν, ὡς αὐτοὶ πρῶτοι τὴν τῶν ἄστρων εὕρεσιν ἐποιήσαντο.
For this reason, the Egyptians, taking a favorable opportunity, appropriated the knowledge of astronomy to themselves, and since the Greeks, because of their ignorance, no longer laid claim to the written characters, the opinion prevailed that they themselves were the first to make the discovery of the stars.
§5.57.5ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναῖοι κτίσαντες ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πόλιν τὴν ὀνομαζομένην Σάιν, τῆς ὁμοίας ἔτυχον ἀγνοίας διὰ τὸν κατακλυσμόν.
In like manner, the Athenians also, who had founded in Egypt the city called Sais, met with the same ignorance because of the deluge.
διʼ ἃς αἰτίας πολλαῖς ὕστερον γενεαῖς Κάδμος ὁ Ἀγήνορος ἐκ τῆς Φοινίκης πρῶτος ὑπελήφθη κομίσαι γράμματα εἰς τὴν Ἑλλάδα· καὶ ἀπʼ ἐκείνου τὸ λοιπὸν οἱ Ἕλληνες ἔδοξαν ἀεί τι προσευρίσκειν περὶ τῶν γραμμάτων, κοινῆς τινος ἀγνοίας κατεχούσης τοὺς Ἕλληνας.
For these reasons, many generations later, Cadmus, the son of Agenor, was believed to have been the first to bring written characters from Phoenicia to Greece; and from his time onward, the Greeks seemed always to be adding some new discovery concerning written characters, since a certain common ignorance held the Greeks in its grip.
§5.57.6Τριόπας δὲ πλεύσας εἰς τὴν Καρίαν κατέσχεν ἀκρωτήριον τὸ ἀπʼ ἐκείνου Τριόπιον κληθέν.
Triopas, sailing to Caria, seized the promontory which was named Triopium after him.
οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ τοῦ Ἡλίου παῖδες διὰ τὸ μὴ μετασχεῖν τοῦ φόνου κατέμειναν ἐν τῇ Ῥόδῳ, καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐν τῇ Ἰαλυσίᾳ κτίσαντες πόλιν Ἀχαΐαν.
But the remaining sons of the Sun, because they had no part in the murder, remained in Rhodes, and settled in Ialysia, founding the city of Achaea.
§5.57.7ὧν ὁ πρεσβύτερος Ὄχιμος βασιλεύων ἔγημε μίαν τῶν ἐγχωρίων Νυμφῶν Ἡγητορίαν, ἐξ ἧς ἐγέννησε θυγατέρα Κυδίππην τὴν μετὰ ταῦτα Κυρβίαν μετονομασθεῖσαν· ἣν γήμας Κέρκαφος ἀδελφὸς διεδέξατο τὴν βασιλείαν.
Of these, Ochimus, the eldest, ruling as king, married Hegetoria, one of the local Nymphs, by whom he begot a daughter Cydippe, who was afterwards renamed Cyrbia; and his brother Cercaphus, marrying her, succeeded to the kingship.
§5.57.8μετὰ δὲ τὴν τούτου τελευτὴν διεδέξαντο τὴν ἀρχὴν υἱοὶ τρεῖς, Λίνδος, Ἰάλυσος, Κάμειρος· ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων γενομένης μεγάλης πλημυρίδος, ἐπικλυσθεῖσα ἡ Κύρβη ἔρημος ἐγένετο, αὐτοὶ δὲ διείλοντο τὴν χώραν, καὶ ἕκαστος ἑαυτοῦ πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔκτισε.
And after his death, his three sons, Lindus, Ialysus, and Cameirus, succeeded to the power; and when a great flood occurred in their time, Cyrbe, being inundated, became deserted, but they divided the country among themselves, and each founded a city named after himself.