§1.11.1οἱ δὲ λογιώτατοι τῶν Ῥωμαϊκῶν συγγραφέων, ἐν οἷς ἐστι Πόρκιός τε Κάτων ὁ τὰς γενεαλογίας τῶν ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ πόλεων ἐπιμελέστατα συναγαγὼν καὶ Γάϊος Σεμπρώνιος καὶ ἄλλοι συχνοί, Ἕλληνας αὐτοὺς εἶναι λέγουσι τῶν ἐν Ἀχαΐᾳ ποτὲ οἰκησάντων, πολλαῖς γενεαῖς πρότερον τοῦ πολέμου τοῦ Τρωικοῦ μεταναστάντας.
But the most learned of the Roman historians, among whom are Porcius Cato, who collected the genealogies of the cities in Italy with the greatest care, Gaius Sempronius, and many others, say that they were Greeks who once dwelt in Achaea, having migrated many generations before the Trojan War.
οὐκέτι μέντοι διορίζουσιν οὔτε φῦλον Ἑλληνικὸν οὗ μετεῖχον, οὔτε πόλιν ἐξ ἧς ἀπανέστησαν, οὔτε χρόνον οὔθʼ ἡγεμόνα τῆς ἀποικίας οὔθʼ ὁποίαις τύχαις χρησάμενοι τὴν μητρόπολιν ἀπέλιπον· Ἑλληνικῷ τε μύθῳ χρησάμενοι οὐδένα τῶν τὰ Ἑλληνικὰ γραψάντων βεβαιωτὴν παρέσχοντο.
They do not, however, further define either the Greek tribe to which they belonged, or the city from which they removed, or the time or the leader of the colony, or by what fortunes they were driven to leave their mother-city; and, though they make use of a Greek legend, they produce no witness among those who have written Greek histories to confirm it.
τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀληθὲς ὅπως ποτʼ ἔχει, ἄδηλον· εἰ δʼ ἐστὶν ὁ τούτων λόγος ὑγιής, οὐκ ἂν ἑτέρου τινὸς εἴησαν ἄποικοι γένους ἢ τοῦ καλουμένου νῦν Ἀρκαδικοῦ.
The truth, then, however it may stand, is unclear; but if their account is sound, they could be colonists of no other race than that which is now called Arcadian.
§1.11.2πρῶτοι γὰρ Ἑλλήνων οὗτοι περαιωθέντες τὸν Ἰόνιον κόλπον ᾤκησαν Ἰταλίαν, ἄγοντος αὐτοὺς Οἰνώτρου τοῦ Λυκάονος· ἦν δὲ πέμπτος ἀπό τε Αἰζειοῦ καὶ Φορωνέως τῶν πρώτων ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ δυναστευσάντων.
For these were the first of the Greeks to cross the Ionian Gulf and settle in Italy, led by Oenotrus, the son of Lycaon; and he was the fifth from Aizeius and Phoroneus, who were the first to rule in the Peloponnesus.
Φορωνέως μὲν γὰρ Νιόβη γίνεται· ταύτης δὲ υἱὸς καὶ Διὸς, ὡς λέγεται, Πελασγός· Αἰζειοῦ δὲ υἱὸς Λυκάων· τούτου δὲ Δηιάνειρα θυγάτηρ· ἐκ δὲ Δηιανείρας καὶ Πελασγοῦ Λυκάων ἕτερος· τούτου δὲ Οἴνωτρος, ἑπτακαίδεκα γενεαῖς πρότερον τῶν ἐπὶ Τροίαν στρατευσάντων.
For of Phoroneus was born Niobe; and of her and Zeus, as it is said, Pelasgus; and of Aizeius was born Lycaon; and of him Deianeira was the daughter; and of Deianeira and Pelasgus was born another Lycaon; and of him Oenotrus, seventeen generations before those who campaigned against Troy.
ὁ μὲν δὴ χρόνος, ἐν ᾧ τὴν ἀποικίαν ἔστειλαν Ἕλληνες εἰς Ἰταλίαν, οὗτος ἦν.
This, then, was the time in which the Greeks sent the colony to Italy.
§1.11.3ἀπανέστη δὲ τῆς Ἑλλάδος Οἴνωτρος οὐκ ἀρκούμενος τῇ μοίρᾳ· δύο γὰρ καὶ εἴκοσι παίδων Λυκάονι γενομένων εἰς τοσούτους ἔδει κλήρους νεμηθῆναι τὴν Ἀρκάδων χώραν.
And Oenotrus left Greece because he was not satisfied with his portion; for as Lycaon had two and twenty sons, it was necessary to divide the Arcadian country into as many shares.
ταύτης μὲν δὴ τῆς αἰτίας ἕνεκα Πελοπόννησον Οἴνωτρος ἐκλιπὼν καὶ κατασκευασάμενος ναυτικὸν διαίρει τὸν Ἰόνιον καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Πευκέτιος τῶν ἀδελφῶν εἷς.
For this reason, then, Oenotrus, leaving the Peloponnesus and preparing a fleet, crossed the Ionian Sea, and with him Peucetius, one of his brothers.
εἵποντο δὲ αὐτοῖς τοῦ τε οἰκείου λαοῦ συχνοί, πολυάνθρωπον γὰρ δὴ τὸ ἔθνος τοῦτο λέγεται κατʼ ἀρχὰς γενέσθαι, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Ἑλλήνων ὅσοι χώραν εἶχον ἐλάττω τῆς ἱκανῆς.
And they were followed by many of their own people—for this nation is said to have been very populous in the beginning—and by as many of the other Greeks as had less land than was sufficient.
§1.11.4Πευκέτιος μὲν οὖν, ἔνθα τὸ πρῶτον ὡρμίσαντο τῆς Ἰταλίας, ὑπὲρ ἄκρας Ἰαπυγίας ἐκβιβάσας τὸν λεὼν αὐτοῦ καθιδρύεται, καὶ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ οἱ περὶ ταῦτα τὰ χωρία οἰκοῦντες Πευκέτιοι ἐκλήθησαν.
Peucetius, then, having landed his people above the Iapygian promontory where they first put in to Italy, settled there; and from him the inhabitants of those parts were called Peucetians.
Οἴνωτρος δὲ τὴν πλείω τοῦ στρατοῦ μοῖραν ἀγόμενος εἰς τὸν ἕτερον ἀφικνεῖται κόλπον τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ἑσπερίων μερῶν παρὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἀναχεόμενον, ὃς τότε μὲν Αὐσόνιος ἐπὶ τῶν προσοικούντων Αὐσόνων ἐλέγετο, ἐπεὶ δὲ Τυρρηνοὶ θαλασσοκράτορες ἐγένοντο, μετέλαβεν ἣν ἔχει νῦν προσηγορίαν.
But Oenotrus, leading the greater part of the army, came to the other gulf which flows along Italy from the western parts, which was then called the Ausonian Gulf from the Ausonians who dwelt near it, but after the Tyrrhenians became masters of the sea, it took the name which it has now.