§10.4.9ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὁποτέρως ἔχει χαλεπὸν εἰπεῖν.
Therefore, which of these two accounts is true is difficult to determine.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλος λόγος οὐχ ὁμολογούμενος, τῶν μὲν ξένον τῆς νήσου τὸν Μίνω λεγόντων τῶν δʼ ἐπιχώριον.
There is also another story not agreed upon, some saying that Minos was a foreigner to the island, and others that he was a native.
ὁ μέντοι ποιητὴς τῇ δευτέρᾳ δοκεῖ μᾶλλον συνηγορεῖν ἀποφάσει, ὅταν φῇ ὅτι
"
πρῶτον Μίνωα τέκε Κρήτῃ ἐπίουρον. "
ὑπὲρ τῆς Κρήτης ὁμολογεῖται διότι κατὰ τοὺς παλαιοὺς χρόνους ἐτύγχανεν εὐνομουμένη καὶ ζηλωτὰς ἑαυτῆς τοὺς ἀρίστους τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀπέφηνεν, ἐν δὲ τοῖς πρώτοις Λακεδαιμονίους, καθάπερ Πλάτων τε ἐν τοῖς νόμοις δηλοῖ καὶ Ἔφορος ἐν τῇ Εὐρώπῃ ἀναγέγραφεν·
The poet, however, seems to advocate rather the second opinion, when he says that "[Zeus] first begot Minos as a guardian for Crete." Concerning Crete, it is agreed that in ancient times it enjoyed good laws and made the best of the Greeks its admirers, and foremost among them the Lacedaemonians, as Plato makes clear in his Laws and Ephorus has recorded in his Europe.
ὕστερον δὲ πρὸς τὸ χεῖρον μετέβαλεν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον.
But later it changed greatly for the worse.
μετὰ γὰρ τοὺς Τυρρηνούς, οἳ μάλιστα ἐδῄωσαν τὴν καθʼ ἡμᾶς θάλατταν, οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ διαδεξάμενοι τὰ λῃστήρια· τούτους δʼ ἐπόρθησαν ὕστερον οἱ Κίλικες· κατέλυσαν δὲ πάντας Ῥωμαῖοι τήν τε Κρήτην ἐκπολεμήσαντες καὶ τὰ πειρατικὰ τῶν Κιλίκων φρούρια.
For after the Tyrrhenians, who especially ravaged our sea, these were the ones who took over the practice of piracy; later the Cilicians plundered them, and finally the Romans put an end to them all by waging war against Crete and destroying the piratical strongholds of the Cilicians.
νῦν δὲ Κνωσσὸς καὶ Ῥωμαίων ἀποικίαν ἔχει.
And now Cnossus even has a colony of Romans.
§10.4.10περὶ μὲν οὖν Κνωσσοῦ ταῦτα, πόλεως οὐκ ἀλλοτρίας ἡμῖν, διὰ δὲ τἀνθρώπινα καὶ τὰς ἐν αὐτοῖς μεταβολὰς καὶ συντυχίας ἐκλελειμμένων τῶν συμβολαίων τῶν ὑπαρξάντων ἡμῖν πρὸς τὴν πόλιν.
Such, then, are the facts about Cnossus, a city which is not alien to us, although, owing to human affairs and the changes and chances in them, the relations that existed between us and the city have been broken off.
Δορύλαος γὰρ ἦν ἀνὴρ τακτικός, τῶν Μιθριδάτου τοῦ Εὐεργέτου φίλων· οὗτος διὰ τὴν ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς ἐμπειρίαν ξενολογεῖν ἀποδειχθεὶς πολὺς ἦν ἔν τε τῇ Ἑλλάδι καὶ τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, πολὺς δὲ καὶ τοῖς παρὰ τῆς Κρήτης ἰοῦσιν, οὔπω τὴν νῆσον ἐχόντων Ῥωμαίων, συχνοῦ δὲ ὄντος ἐν αὐτῇ τοῦ μισθοφορικοῦ καὶ στρατιωτικοῦ πλήθους, ἐξ οὗ καὶ τὰ λῃστήρια πληροῦσθαι συνέβαινεν.
For Dorylaus was a military tactician, one of the friends of Mithridates Euergetes; because of his experience in military affairs, he was appointed to recruit mercenaries and was very active both in Greece and Thrace, and also among those who came from Crete, since the Romans did not yet hold the island and there was a large crowd of mercenaries and soldiers in it, from which the pirate bands also happened to be recruited.
ἐπιδημοῦντος δὲ τοῦ Δορυλάου κατὰ τύχην ἐνέστη πόλεμος τοῖς Κνωσσίοις πρὸς τοὺς Γορτυνίους· αἱρεθεὶς δὲ στρατηγὸς καὶ κατορθώσας διὰ ταχέων ἤρατο τιμὰς τὰς μεγίστας, καὶ ἐπειδὴ μικρὸν ὕστερον ἐξ ἐπιβουλῆς δολοφονηθέντα ἔγνω τὸν Εὐεργέτην ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων ἐν Σινώπῃ, τὴν διαδοχὴν δὲ εἰς γυναῖκα καὶ παιδία ἥκουσαν, ἀπογνοὺς τῶν ἐκεῖ κατέμεινεν τῇ Κνωσσῷ·
While Dorylaus was residing there, a war by chance arose between the Cnossians and the Gortynians; having been chosen general and being quickly successful, he won the greatest honors, and when a little later he learned that Euergetes had been assassinated by his friends in Sinope through a conspiracy, and that the succession had devolved upon his wife and children, he gave up hope of affairs there and remained in Cnossus.
τεκνοποιεῖται δʼ ἐκ Μακέτιδος γυναικὸς Στερόπης τοὔνομα δύο μὲν υἱεῖς Λαγέταν καὶ Στρατάρχαν, ὧν τὸν Στρατάρχαν ἐσχατόγηρων καὶ ἡμεῖς ἤδη εἴδομεν, θυγατέρα δὲ μίαν.
He begot by a Macedonian woman named Sterope two sons, Lagetas and Stratarchas (the latter of whom I myself saw when he was in extreme old age), and one daughter.
δυεῖν δὲ ὄντων υἱῶν τοῦ Εὐεργέτου διεδέξατο τὴν βασιλείαν Μιθριδάτης ὁ προσαγορευθεὶς Εὐπάτωρ ἕνδεκα ἔτη γεγονώς· τούτῳ σύντροφος ὑπῆρξεν ὁ τοῦ Φιλεταίρου Δορύλαος· ἦν δʼ ὁ Φιλέταιρος ἀδελφὸς τοῦ τακτικοῦ Δορυλάου.
Euergetes having two sons, the kingship was succeeded by Mithridates, surnamed Eupator, when he was eleven years old; with him was reared Dorylaus, the son of Philetaerus, who was a brother of Dorylaus the tactician.
ἀνδρωθεὶς δʼ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ τοσοῦτο ᾕρητο τῇ συντροφίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τὸν Δορύλαον ὥστʼ οὐκ ἐκεῖνον μόνον εἰς τιμὰς ἦγε τὰς μεγίστας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν συγγενῶν ἐπεμελεῖτο καὶ τοὺς ἐν Κνωσσῷ μετεπέμπετο· ἦσαν δʼ οἱ περὶ Λαγέταν, τοῦ μὲν πατρὸς ἤδη τετελευτηκότος, αὐτοὶ δʼ ἠνδρωμένοι, καὶ ἧκον ἀφέντες τὰ ἐν Κνωσσῷ· τοῦ δὲ Λαγέτα θυγάτηρ ἦν ἡ μήτηρ τῆς ἐμῆς μητρός.
When the king grew to manhood, he was so attached to his companion Dorylaus that he not only raised him to the highest honors, but also took care of his relatives and sent for those in Cnossus; these were Lagetas and his family, their father being already dead and they themselves being grown men, and they came, leaving behind their possessions in Cnossus; and the daughter of Lagetas was the mother of my own mother.
εὐτυχοῦντος μὲν δὴ ἐκείνου συνευτυχεῖν καὶ τούτοις συνέβαινε, καταλυθέντος δὲ (ἐφωράθη γὰρ ἀφιστὰς τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις τὴν βασιλείαν ἐφʼ ᾧ αὐτὸς εἰς τὴν ἀρχὴν καταστήσεται) συγκατελύθη καὶ τὰ τούτων καὶ ἐταπεινώθησαν· ὠλιγωρήθη δὲ καὶ τὰ πρὸς τοὺς Κνωσσίους συμβόλαια καὶ αὐτοὺς μυρίας μεταβολὰς δεξαμένους.
Now while Dorylaus was prosperous, it fell to their lot to share in his prosperity, but when he was overthrown (for he was detected trying to betray the kingdom to the Romans on condition that he himself should be established in the sovereignty), their fortunes were overthrown with him and they were brought low; and their relations with the Cnossians were also neglected, who themselves had experienced countless changes.