§1.23.1Ἕλληνες δὲ ἄλλα τε λέγουσι καὶ ἄνδρας ἑπτὰ γενέσθαι σοφούς.
The Greeks tell other things and also that there were seven wise men.
τούτων καὶ τὸν Λέσβιον τύραννον καὶ Περίανδρον εἶναί φασι τὸν Κυψέλου· καίτοι Περιάνδρου Πεισίστρατος καὶ ὁ παῖς Ἱππίας φιλάνθρωποι μᾶλλον καὶ σοφώτεροι τά τε πολεμικὰ ἦσαν καὶ ὅσα ἧκεν ἐς κόσμον τῶν πολιτῶν, ἐς ὃ διὰ τὸν Ἱππάρχου θάνατον Ἱππίας ἄλλα τε ἐχρήσατο θυμῷ καὶ ἐς γυναῖκα ὄνομα Λέαιναν.
Of these they say that both the tyrant of Lesbos and Periander the son of Cypselus were among them; and yet, compared to Periander, Peisistratus and his son Hippias were more humane and wiser both in military matters and in all that pertained to the order of the citizens, until because of the death of Hipparchus, Hippias used his anger for other harsh deeds and against a woman named Leaena.
§1.23.2ταύτην γάρ, ἐπεί τε ἀπέθανεν Ἵππαρχος, —λέγω δὲ οὐκ ἐς συγγραφὴν πρότερον ἥκοντα, πιστὰ δὲ ἄλλως Ἀθηναίων τοῖς πολλοῖς—Ἱππίας εἶχεν ἐν αἰκίᾳ ἐς ὃ διέφθειρεν, οἷα ἑταίραν Ἀριστογείτονος ἐπιστάμενος οὖσαν καὶ τὸ βούλευμα οὐδαμῶς ἀγνοῆσαι δοξάζων·
For this woman, after Hipparchus died—I tell what has not previously entered into written history, but is otherwise believed by the majority of the Athenians—Hippias kept under torture until he killed her, as he knew she was the mistress of Aristogeiton and supposed she was by no means ignorant of the plot.
ἀντὶ δὲ τούτων, ἐπεὶ τυραννίδος ἐπαύθησαν οἱ Πεισιστρατίδαι, χαλκῆ λέαινα Ἀθηναίοις ἐστὶν ἐς μνήμην τῆς γυναικός, παρὰ δὲ αὐτὴν ἄγαλμα Ἀφροδίτης, ὃ Καλλίου τέ φασιν ἀνάθημα εἶναι καὶ ἔργον Καλάμιδος.
In return for this, when the Peisistratidae were stopped from their tyranny, there is a bronze lioness for the Athenians in memory of the woman, and beside it a statue of Aphrodite, which they say is both an offering of Callias and a work of Calamis.
§1.23.3πλησίον δέ ἐστι Διιτρέφους χαλκοῦς ἀνδριὰς ὀιστοῖς βεβλημένος.
Near it is a bronze statue of Diitrephes shot with arrows.
οὗτος ὁ Διιτρέφης ἄλλα τε ἔπραξεν ὁπόσα λέγουσιν Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ Θρᾷκας μισθωτοὺς ἀφικομένους ὕστερον ἢ Δημοσθένης ἐς Συρακούσας ἐξέπλευσε, τούτους ὡς ὑστέρησαν ὁ Διιτρέφης ἀπῆγεν ὀπίσω.
This Diitrephes did other things such as the Athenians relate, and the Thracian mercenaries who arrived after Demosthenes had sailed to Syracuse, these Diitrephes led back because they had come too late.
καὶ δὴ κατὰ τὸν Χαλκιδικὸν ἔσχεν Εὔριπον, ἔνθα Βοιωτῶν ἐν μεσογαίᾳ πόλις Μυκαλησσὸς ἦν· ταύτην ἐπαναβὰς ἐκ θαλάσσης ὁ Λιιτρέφης εἷλε.
Indeed he put in at the Euripus of Chalcis, where there was Mycalessus, an inland city of the Boeotians; Liitrephes marched up from the sea and took this city.
Μυκαλησσίων δὲ οὐ μόνον τὸ μάχιμον οἱ Θρᾷκες ἀλλὰ καὶ γυναῖκας ἐφόνευσαν καὶ παῖδας.
And the Thracians slaughtered not only the fighting men of the Mycalessians but also the women and children.
μαρτυρεῖ δέ μοι· Βοιωτῶν γὰρ ὅσους ἀνέστησαν Θηβαῖοι, ᾠκοῦντο αἱ πόλεις ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ, διαφυγόντων ὑπὸ τὴν ἅλωσιν τῶν ἀνθρώπων· εἰ δὲ καὶ Μυκαλησσίοις οἱ βάρβαροι μὴ πᾶσιν ἀποκτείναντες ἐπεξῆλθον, ὕστερον ἂν τὴν πόλιν ἀπέλαβον οἱ λειφθέντες.
This bears witness to my view; for of the Boeotian cities which the Thebans destroyed, the cities were inhabited in my time, because the people fled during the capture; but if the barbarians had not gone on to kill all the Mycalessians, the survivors would have recovered their city later.
§1.23.4τοσοῦτον μὲν παρέστη μοι θαῦμα ἐς τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ Διιτρέφους, ὅτι ὀιστοῖς ἐβέβλητο, Ἕλλησιν ὅτι μὴ Κρησὶν οὐκ ἐπιχώριον ὂν τοξεύειν·
Such a wonder presented itself to me concerning the statue of Diitrephes, because he was shot with arrows, since for Greeks, except for the Cretans, it is not customary to use the bow.
Λοκροὺς γὰρ τοὺς Ὀπουντίους ὁπλιτεύοντας ἤδη κατὰ τὰ Μηδικὰ ἴσμεν, οὓς Ὅμηρος ἐποίησεν ὡς φερόμενοι τόξα καὶ σφενδόνας ἐς Ἴλιον ἔλθοιεν· οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ Μαλιεῦσι παρέμεινε μελέτη τῶν τόξων, δοκῶ δὲ οὔτε πρότερον ἐπίστασθαι σφᾶς πρὶν ἢ Φιλοκτήτην, παύσασθαί τε οὐ διὰ μακροῦ·
For we know that the Opuntian Locrians were already serving as hoplites by the time of the Persian War, whom Homer represented as having come to Ilium carrying bows and slings; nor indeed did the practice of the bow remain among the Malians, and I think they neither knew it before Philoctetes and ceased not long after.
τοῦ δὲ Διιτρέφους πλησίον—τὰς γὰρ εἰκόνας τὰς ἀφανεστέρας γράφειν οὐκ ἐθέλω—θεῶν ἀγάλματά ἐστιν Ὑγείας τε, ἣν Ἀσκληπιοῦ παῖδα εἶναι λέγουσι, καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς ἐπίκλησιν καὶ ταύτης Ὑγείας.
Near Diitrephes—for I do not wish to write of the less famous statues—are statues of gods, both of Hygeia, whom they say is the child of Asclepius, and of Athena under the title of Hygeia.
§1.23.5ἔστι δὲ λίθος οὐ μέγας, ἀλλʼ ὅσον καθίζεσθαι μικρὸν ἄνδρα· ἐπὶ τούτῳ λέγουσιν, ἡνίκα Διόνυσος ἦλθεν ἐς τὴν γῆν, ἀναπαύσασθαι τὸν Σιληνόν.
There is a stone, not large, but only enough for a small man to sit on; on this they say, when Dionysus came to the land, Silenus rested.
τοὺς γὰρ ἡλικίᾳ τῶν Σατύρων προήκοντας ὀνομάζουσι Σιληνούς· περὶ δὲ Σατύρων, οἵτινές εἰσιν, ἑτέρου πλέον ἐθέλων ἐπίστασθαι πολλοῖς αὐτῶν τούτων ἕνεκα ἐς λόγους ἦλθον.
For those who are advanced in age among the Satyrs they name Sileni; and concerning the Satyrs, who they are, wishing to know more than anyone else, I came into conversation with many for this very purpose.
ἔφη δὲ Εὔφημος Κὰρ ἀνὴρ πλέων ἐς Ἰταλίαν ἁμαρτεῖν ὑπὸ ἀνέμων τοῦ πλοῦ καὶ ἐς τὴν ἔξω θάλασσαν, ἐς ἣν οὐκέτι πλέουσιν, ἐξενεχθῆναι.
Euphemus, a Carian man, said that when sailing to Italy he missed his course by reason of winds and was carried out into the outer sea, into which they no longer sail.
νήσους δὲ εἶναι μὲν ἔλεγεν ἐρήμους πολλάς, ἐν δὲ ἄλλαις οἰκεῖν ἄνδρας ἀγρίους·
He said there were indeed many desert islands, but in others lived wild men;