§1.12.1εὑρὼν δὲ χώραν πολλὴν μὲν εἰς νομάς, πολλὴν δὲ εἰς ἀρότους εὔθετον, ἔρημον δὲ τὴν πλείστην καὶ οὐδὲ τὴν οἰκουμένην πολυάνθρωπον, ἀνακαθήρας τὸ βάρβαρον ἐκ μέρους τινὸς αὐτῆς ᾤκισε πόλεις μικρὰς καὶ συνεχεῖς ἐπὶ τοῖς ὄρεσιν, ὅσπερ ἦν τοῖς παλαιοῖς τρόπος οἰκήσεως συνήθης.
And finding a land suitable, much of it for pasture and much for tillage, but mostly deserted and even where inhabited, not populous, Oenotrus, clearing the barbarians from some part of it, settled small and contiguous towns on the mountains, which was the customary manner of dwelling among the ancients.
ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ ἥ τε χώρα πᾶσα πολλὴ οὖσα ὅσην κατέσχεν Οἰνωτρία, καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι πάντες ὅσων ἦρξεν Οἴνωτροι, τρίτην μεταλαβόντες ὀνομασίαν ταύτην.
And all the country, which was extensive, as much as he occupied, was called Oenotria, and all the people whom he ruled were called Oenotrians, having received this as their third name.
ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ Αἰζειοῦ βασιλεύοντος Αἰζειοὶ ἐλέγοντο, Λυκάονος δὲ παραλαβόντος τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπʼ ἐκείνου αὖθις Λυκάονες ὠνομάσθησαν, Οἰνώτρου δὲ κομίσαντος αὐτοὺς εἰς Ἰταλίαν Οἴνωτροι χρόνον τινὰ ἐκλήθησαν.
For during the reign of Aizeius they were called Aizeians; but when Lycaon succeeded him in the government, they were again named Lycaonians; and when Oenotrus conducted them to Italy, they were for some time called Oenotrians.
§1.12.2μαρτυρεῖ δέ μοι τῷ λόγῳ Σοφοκλῆς μὲν ὁ τραγῳδοποιὸς ἐν Τριπτολέμῳ δράματι· πεποίηται γὰρ αὐτῷ Δημήτηρ διδάσκουσα τὸν Τριπτόλεμον, ὅσην χώραν ἀναγκασθήσεται σπείρων τοῖς δοθεῖσιν ὑπʼ αὐτῆς καρποῖς διεξελθεῖν· μνησθεῖσα δὲ τῆς ἑῴου πρῶτον Ἰταλίας, ἥ ἐστιν ἀπʼ ἄκρας Ἰαπυγίας μέχρι πορθμοῦ Σικελικοῦ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο τῆς ἀντικρὺ ἁψαμένη Σικελίας, ἐπὶ τὴν ἑσπέριον Ἰταλίαν αὖθις ἀναστρέφει καὶ τὰ μέγιστα τῶν οἰκούντων τὴν παράλιον ταύτην ἐθνῶν διεξέρχεται, τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπὸ τῆς Οἰνώτρων οἰκήσεως ποιησαμένη.
Sophocles the tragic poet bears witness to my account in his play Triptolemus; for in it Demeter is represented by him as instructing Triptolemus how much country he would be obliged to traverse while sowing it with the seeds she had given him; and having first mentioned eastern Italy, which extends from the Iapygian promontory to the Sicilian strait, and after this having touched upon Sicily opposite, she returns again to western Italy and enumerates the greatest of the nations that inhabit this coast, making her beginning from the settlement of the Oenotrians.
ἀπόχρη δὲ ταῦτα μόνα λεχθέντα τῶν ἰαμβείων, ἐν οἷς φησι· "τὰ δʼ ἐξόπισθε, χειρὸς εἰς τὰ δεξιά, Οἰνωτρία τε πᾶσα καὶ Τυρρηνικὸς"
κόλπος Λιγυστική τε γῆ σε δέξεται. §1.12.3Ἀντίοχος δὲ ὁ Συρακούσιος, συγγραφεὺς πάνυ ἀρχαῖος, ἐν Ἰταλίας οἰκισμῷ τοὺς παλαιοτάτους οἰκήτορας διεξιὼν, ὡς ἕκαστοί τι μέρος αὐτῆς κατεῖχον, Οἰνώτρους λέγει πρώτους τῶν μνημονευομένων ἐν αὐτῇ κατοικῆσαι, εἰπὼν ὧδε· ʽἈντίοχος Ξενοφάνεος τάδε συνέγραψε περὶ Ἰταλίης ἐκ τῶν ἀρχαίων λόγων τὰ πιστότατα καὶ σαφέστατα· τὴν γῆν ταύτην, ἥτις νῦν Ἰταλίη καλεῖται, τὸ παλαιὸν εἶχον Οἴνωτροἰ. ἔπειτα διεξελθὼν ὃν τρόπον ἐπολιτεύοντο, καὶ ὡς βασιλεὺς ἐν αὐτοῖς Ἰταλὸς ἀνὰ χρόνον ἐγένετο, ἀφʼ οὗ μετωνομάσθησαν Ἰταλοί, τούτου δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν Μόργης διεδέξατο, ἀφʼ οὗ Μόργητες ἐκλήθησαν, καὶ ὡς Σικελὸς ἐπιξενωθεὶς Μόργητι ἰδίαν πράττων ἀρχὴν διέστησε τὸ ἔθνος, ἐπιφέρει ταυτί· ʽοὕτω δὲ Σικελοὶ καὶ Μόργητες ἐγένοντο καὶ Ἰταλίητες ἐόντες Οἴνωτροἰ.
And these iambics alone, in which he says, are sufficient to be quoted: "And behind, on your right hand, all Oenotria and the Tyrrhenian gulf and the Ligurian land shall receive you." And Antiochus of Syracuse, a very ancient historian, in his work "On the Settlement of Italy", when enumerating the oldest inhabitants as they each occupied some part of it, says that the Oenotrians were the first of those recorded to have settled there, speaking thus: "Antiochus, the son of Xenophanes, wrote these things concerning Italy, from the ancient stories the most credible and clearest: this land, which is now called Italy, the Oenotrians anciently held." Then, having explained in what manner they were governed, and how in course of time Italus became king among them, from whom they were renamed Italians, and how Morges succeeded to his government, from whom they were called Morgetes, and how Sicelus, being received as a guest by Morges and establishing a separate government for himself, divided the nation, he adds these words: "And thus they became Sicels and Morgetes, though they were Italiotes and Oenotrians."