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Diodorus Siculus · Bibliotheca Historica §5.61.1-5.61.3

The Wandering of Triopas and Founding of Triopium

Passage 383 of 406 · Greek

Summary

The passage details how Triopas, fleeing after murdering his brother, wandered to Thessaly and eventually settled in Cnidia, where he built Triopium, along with various accounts of his genealogy.

§5.61.1μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα Τριόπαν, ἕνα τῶν Ἡλίου καὶ Ῥόδου παίδων, φεύγοντα διὰ τὸν Τενάγεω τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ φόνον εἰς τὴν Χερρόνησον ἀφικέσθαι.
After these events, Triopas, one of the sons of Helios and Rhodos, fleeing because of the murder of his brother Tenages, arrived in the Cherronesus.
ἐνταῦθα δὲ καθαρθέντα τὸν φόνον ὑπὸ Μελισσέως τοῦ βασιλέως εἰς τὴν Θετταλίαν πλεῦσαι ἐπὶ συμμαχίαν τοῖς Δευκαλίωνος παισί, καὶ συνεκβαλεῖν ἐκ τῆς Θετταλίας τοὺς Πελασγούς, §5.61.2καὶ μερίσασθαι τὸ καλούμενον Δώτιον πεδίον.
And having been purified of the murder there by King Melisseus, he sailed to Thessaly to form an alliance with the children of Deucalion, and helped to expel the Pelasgians from Thessaly, and divided the so-called Dotian plain.
ἐνταῦθα δὲ τὸ τέμενος τῆς Δήμητρος ἐκκόψαντα τῇ ὕλῃ καταχρῆσθαι πρὸς βασιλείων κατασκευήν· δι’ ἣν αἰτίαν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγχωρίων μισηθέντα φυγεῖν ἐκ Θετταλίας, καὶ καταπλεῦσαι μετὰ τῶν συμπλευσάντων λαῶν εἰς τὴν Κνιδίαν, ἐν ᾗ κτίσαι τὸ καλούμενον ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ Τριόπιον.
And there, having cut down the sacred precinct of Demeter, he used the timber for the construction of a palace; for which reason, having become hated by the inhabitants, he fled from Thessaly, and sailed down with the peoples who sailed with him to the Cnidia, in which he founded the Triopium called after him.
§5.61.3ἐντεῦθεν δʼ ὁρμώμενον τήν τε Χερρόνησον κατακτήσασθαι καὶ τῆς ὁμόρου Καρίας πολλήν.
Setting out from there, he conquered both the Cherronesus and much of the neighboring Caria.
περὶ δὲ τοῦ γένους τοῦ Τριόπα πολλοὶ τῶν συγγραφέων καὶ ποιητῶν διαπεφωνήκασιν· οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἀναγράφουσιν αὐτὸν υἱὸν εἶναι Κανάχης τῆς Αἰόλου καὶ Ποσειδῶνος, οἱ δὲ Λαπίθου τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ Στίλβης τῆς Πηνειοῦ.
But concerning the lineage of Triopas, many of the historians and poets disagree; for some record that he was the son of Canace, the daughter of Aeolus, and Poseidon, while others say he was the son of Lapithes, the son of Apollo, and Stilbe, the daughter of Peneus.

Notes

  1. 5.61.1ἀφικέσθαι — All the main verbs in this passage are infinitives (ἀφικέσθαι, πλεῦσαι, συνεκβαλεῖν, etc.), continuing the indirect discourse (accusative with infinitive) introduced by λέγεται ('it is said') in 5.60.2.
  2. 5.61.1καθαρθέντα τὸν φόνον — The accusative τὸν φόνον functions as an accusative of specification (or retained object from a double accusative construction in the active) with the passive participle καθαρθέντα ('having been purified'), meaning 'having been purified of the murder'.
  3. 5.61.2τῇ ὕλῃ καταχρῆσθαι — The verb καταχράομαι ('to use up', 'consume') takes the dative (τῇ ὕλῃ) as its object, in the same manner as the simple verb χράομαι.
  4. 5.61.3τῆς ὁμόρου Καρίας πολλήν — The feminine singular accusative πολλήν modifies an implied noun like γῆν ('land') or χώραν ('region'), with the genitive τῆς ὁμόρου Καρίας serving as a partitive genitive, meaning 'much of the neighboring Caria'.

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Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica §5.61.1-5.61.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.humanitext-grc5:5.61.1-5.61.3

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