§5.59.1ὕστερον δὲ τούτων Ἀλθαιμένης ὁ Κατρέως υἱὸς τοῦ Κρητῶν βασιλέως περί τινων χρηστηριαζόμενος ἔλαβε χρησμόν, ὅτι πεπρωμένον ἐστὶν αὐτῷ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτόχειρα γενέσθαι.
After this, Althaemenes, the son of Catreus the king of the Cretans, while inquiring of the oracle about certain matters, received an oracle that it was fated for him to become the slayer of his own father with his own hand.
§5.59.2βουλόμενος οὖν τοῦτο τὸ μύσος ἐκφυγεῖν ἑκουσίως ἔφυγεν ἐκ τῆς Κρήτης μετὰ τῶν βουλομένων συναπᾶραι, πλειόνων ὄντων.
Desiring, therefore, to escape this pollution, he voluntarily fled from Crete with those who wished to sail with him, who were numerous.
οὗτος μὲν οὖν κατέπλευσε τῆς Ῥοδίας εἰς Κάμειρον καὶ ἐπὶ ὄρους Ἀταβύρου Διὸς ἱερὸν ἱδρύσατο τοῦ προσαγορευομένου Ἀταβυρίου· διόπερ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τιμᾶται διαφερόντως, κείμενον ἐπί τινος ὑψηλῆς ἄκρας, ἀφʼ ἧς ἐστιν ἀφορᾶν τὴν Κρήτην.
He, then, sailed to Cameirus in Rhodes and established a temple of Zeus, who is called Atabyrios, on Mount Atabyros; for this reason it is honored exceptionally even to this day, being situated on a certain high peak from which it is possible to look out upon Crete.
§5.59.3ὁ μὲν οὖν Ἀλθαιμένης μετὰ τῶν συνακολουθησάντων κατῴκησεν ἐν τῇ Καμείρῳ, τιμώμενος ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγχωρίων· ὁ δὲ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ Κατρεύς, ἔρημος ὢν ἀρρένων παίδων καὶ διαφερόντως ἀγαπῶν τὸν Ἀλθαιμένην, ἔπλευσεν εἰς Ῥόδον, φιλοτιμούμενος εὑρεῖν τὸν υἱὸν καὶ ἀπαγαγεῖν εἰς Κρήτην.
So Althaemenes settled in Cameirus with his followers, being honored by the inhabitants; but his father Catreus, being destitute of male children and loving Althaemenes exceptionally, sailed to Rhodes, being eager to find his son and bring him back to Crete.
τῆς δὲ κατὰ τὸ πεπρωμένον ἀνάγκης ἐπισχυούσης, ὁ μὲν Κατρεὺς ἀπέβη μετά τινων ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥοδίαν νυκτός, καὶ γενομένης συμπλοκῆς καὶ μάχης πρὸς τοὺς ἐγχωρίους ὁ Ἀλθαιμένης ἐκβοηθῶν ἠκόντισε λόγχῃ καὶ διʼ ἄγνοιαν παίσας ἀπέκτεινε τὸν πατέρα.
But since the necessity of fate prevailed, Catreus landed by night with some men on Rhodes, and a skirmish and battle having arisen with the inhabitants, Althaemenes, coming to the rescue, hurled a spear and, striking his father in ignorance, killed him.
§5.59.4γνωσθείσης δὲ τῆς πράξεως, ὁ Ἀλθαιμένης οὐ δυνάμενος φέρειν τὸ μέγεθος τῆς συμφορᾶς τὰς μὲν ἀπαντήσεις καὶ ὁμιλίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων περιέκαμπτε, διδοὺς δʼ ἑαυτὸν εἰς τὰς ἐρημίας ἠλᾶτο μόνος καὶ διὰ τὴν λύπην ἐτελεύτησεν· ὕστερον δὲ κατά τινα χρησμὸν τιμὰς ἔσχε παρὰ Ῥοδίοις ἡρωικάς.
When the deed became known, Althaemenes, unable to bear the magnitude of the misfortune, avoided meeting and conversing with men, and giving himself up to desert places, wandered alone and died of his grief; but later, according to a certain oracle, he received heroic honors among the Rhodians.
§5.59.5βραχὺ δὲ πρὸ τῶν Τρωικῶν Τληπόλεμος ὁ Ἡρακλέους φεύγων διὰ τὸν Λικυμνίου θάνατον, ὃν ἀκουσίως ἦν ἀνῃρηκώς, ἔφυγεν ἑκουσίως ἐξ Ἄργους· χρησμὸν δὲ λαβὼν ὑπὲρ ἀποικίας μετά τινων λαῶν κατέπλευσεν εἰς τὴν Ῥόδον, καὶ προσδεχθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγχωρίων αὐτοῦ κατῴκησε.
Shortly before the Trojan War, Tlepolemus, the son of Heracles, fleeing because of the death of Licymnius, whom he had killed involuntarily, fled voluntarily from Argos; and having received an oracle concerning a colony, he sailed to Rhodes with some people, and being welcomed by the inhabitants, settled there.
§5.59.6γενόμενος δὲ βασιλεὺς πάσης τῆς νήσου τήν τε χώραν ἐπʼ ἴσης κατεκληρούχησε καὶ τἄλλα διετέλεσεν ἄρχων ἐπιεικῶς.
Having become king of the whole island, he distributed the land in equal shares and in other respects continued to rule with fairness.
τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον μετʼ Ἀγαμέμνονος στρατεύων εἰς Ἴλιον τῆς μὲν Ῥόδου τὴν ἡγεμονίαν παρέδωκε Βούτᾳ τῷ ἐξ Ἄργους αὐτῷ μετασχόντι τῆς φυγῆς, αὐτὸς δʼ ἐπιφανὴς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ γενόμενος ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν τῇ Τρῳάδι.
At last, while campaigning with Agamemnon against Ilion, he handed over the leadership of Rhodes to Butes, who had shared his flight with him from Argos, and having become illustrious in the war, he himself died in the Troas.