§1.35.1νῆσοι δὲ Ἀθηναίοις οὐ πόρρω τῆς χώρας εἰσίν, ἡ μὲν Πατρόκλου καλουμένη—τὰ δὲ ἐς αὐτὴν ἤδη μοι δεδήλωται—, ἄλλη δὲ ὑπὲρ Σουνίου τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἐν ἀριστερᾷ παραπλέουσιν· ἐς ταύτην ἀποβῆναι λέγουσιν Ἑλένην μετὰ τὴν ἅλωσιν τὴν Ἰλίου, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὄνομά ἐστιν Ἑλένη τῇ νήσῳ.
There are islands for the Athenians not far from their land, one called that of Patroclus—and the matters concerning it have already been declared by me—and another beyond Sunium as one sails along with Attica on the left; they say that Helen landed on this island after the capture of Ilium, and for this reason the name of the island is Helene.
§1.35.2Σαλαμὶς δὲ κατὰ Ἐλευσῖνα κειμένη παρήκει καὶ ἐς τὴν Μεγαρικήν.
Salamis, lying opposite Eleusis, extends as far as the territory of Megara.
πρῶτον δὲ τῇ νήσῳ τὸ ὄνομα θέσθαι τοῦτο Κυχρέα ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Σαλαμῖνος τῆς Ἀσωποῦ, καὶ ὕστερον Αἰγινήτας τοὺς σὺν Τελαμῶνι ἐποικῆσαι· Φίλαιον δὲ τὸν Εὐρυσάκους τοῦ Αἴαντος παραδοῦναι λέγουσιν Ἀθηναίοις τὴν νῆσον, γενόμενον ὑπʼ αὐτῶν Ἀθηναῖον.
They say that Cychreus first gave this name to the island after his mother Salamis, the daughter of Asopus, and later the Aeginetans with Telamon colonized it; and they say that Philaeus, the son of Eurysaces, the son of Ajax, handed over the island to the Athenians, having been made an Athenian by them.
Σαλαμινίους δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι τούτων ὕστερον πολλοῖς ἔτεσιν ἀναστάτους ἐποίησαν, καταγνόντες ἐθελοκακῆσαι σφᾶς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ τῷ πρὸς Κάσσανδρον καὶ τὴν πόλιν γνώμῃ τὸ πλέον Μακεδόσιν ἐνδοῦναι· καὶ Αἰσχητάδου τε κατέγνωσαν θάνατον, ὃς τότε ᾕρητο ἐς τὴν Σαλαμῖνα στρατηγός, καὶ ἐς τὸν πάντα ἐπώμοσαν χρόνον Σαλαμινίοις ἀπομνημονεύςειν προδοσίαν.
Many years after these events, the Athenians expelled the Salaminians, having convicted them of intentional cowardice in the war against Cassander, and of surrendering the city for the most part to the Macedonians of their own will; and they both condemned Aeschytades to death, who had then been chosen general for Salamis, and swore for all time to remember the treachery of the Salaminians.
§1.35.3ἔστι δὲ ἀγορᾶς τε ἔτι ἐρείπια καὶ ναὸς Αἴαντος, ἄγαλμα δὲ ἐξ ἐβένου ξύλου· διαμένουσι δὲ καὶ ἐς τόδε τῷ Αἴαντι παρὰ Ἀθηναίοις τιμαὶ αὐτῷ τε καὶ Εὐρυσάκει, καὶ γὰρ Εὐρυσάκους βωμός ἐστιν ἐν Ἀθήναις.
There are still ruins of a marketplace and a temple of Ajax, with an image made of ebony wood; and even to this day, honors remain for Ajax among the Athenians, both for himself and for Eurysaces, for indeed there is an altar of Eurysaces in Athens.
δείκνυται δὲ λίθος ἐν Σαλαμῖνι οὐ πόρρω τοῦ λιμένος· ἐπὶ τούτου καθήμενον Τελαμῶνα ὁρᾶν λέγουσιν ἐς τὴν ναῦν ἀποπλεόντων οἱ τῶν παίδων ἐς Αὐλίδα ἐπὶ τὸν κοινὸν τῶν Ἑλλήνων στόλον.
A stone is shown in Salamis not far from the harbor; they say that Telamon sat on this and watched the ship of his children as they sailed away to Aulis for the common fleet of the Greeks.
§1.35.4λέγουσι δὲ οἱ περὶ τὴν Σαλαμῖνα οἰκοῦντες ἀποθανόντος Αἴαντος τὸ ἄνθος σφίσιν ἐν τῇ γῇ τότε φανῆναι πρῶτον· λευκόν ἐστιν, ὑπέρυθρον, κρίνου καὶ αὐτὸ ἔλασσον καὶ τὰ φύλλα· γράμματα δὲ ἔπεστιν οἷα τοῖς ὑακίνθοις καὶ τούτῳ.
Those who dwell around Salamis say that when Ajax died, the flower first appeared to them in their land; it is white, tinged with red, smaller than a lily, both the flower itself and its leaves; and letters are upon it, such as are on hyacinths.
λόγον δὲ τῶν μὲν Αἰολέων τῶν ὕστερον οἰκησάντων Ἴλιον ἐς τὴν κρίσιν τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὅπλοις ἤκουσα, οἳ τῆς ναυαγίας Ὀδυσσεῖ συμβάσης ἐξενεχθῆναι κατὰ τὸν τάφον τὸν Αἴαντος τὰ ὅπλα λέγουσι· τὸ δὲ ἐς τὸ μέγεθος αὐτοῦ Μυσὸς ἔλεγεν ἀνήρ.
I heard a story from the Aeolians who later inhabited Ilium concerning the judgment over the armor, who say that when the shipwreck befell Odysseus, the armor was washed ashore near the tomb of Ajax; and a Mysian man told me about his size.
§1.35.5τοῦ γὰρ τάφου τὰ πρὸς τὸν αἰγιαλὸν ἔφασκεν ἐπικλύσαι τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ἔσοδον ἐς τὸ μνῆμα οὐ χαλεπὴν ποιῆσαι, καί με τοῦ νεκροῦ τὸ μέγεθος τεκμαίρεσθαι τῇδε ἐκέλευε· πεντάθλου γὰρ παιδὸς εἶναί οἱ κατὰ δίσκον μάλιστα τὰ ἐπὶ τοῖς γόνασιν ὀστᾶ, καλουμένας δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν μύλας.
For he said that the sea washed away the parts of the tomb towards the shore and made the entrance into the monument not difficult, and he bade me estimate the size of the corpse in this way: for he said that the bones upon his knees, called kneepats by doctors, were about as large as the discus of a boy competing in the pentathlon.
ἐγὼ δέ, ὁπόσοι μὲν οἰκοῦσιν ἔσχατοι Κελτῶν ἔχοντες ὅμορον τῇ διὰ κρυμὸν ἐρήμῳ, οὓς Καβαρεῖς ὀνομάζουσι, τούτων μὲν οὐκ ἐθαύμασα τὸ μῆκος, οἳ νεκρῶν οὐδέν τι διαφόρως ἔχουσιν Αἰγυπτίων· ὁπόσα δὲ ἄξια ἐφαίνετο εἶναί μοι θέας, διηγήσομαι.
But I do not wonder at the stature of those among the Celts who dwell furthest, bordering the desert caused by frost, whom they name Cabares, who have corpses in no way different from those of the Egyptians; but whatever things appeared to me to be worthy of seeing, I will narrate.
§1.35.6Μάγνησι τοῖς ἐπὶ Ληθαίῳ Πρωτοφάνης τῶν ἀστῶν ἀνείλετο ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ νίκας ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ παγκρατίου καὶ πάλης· τούτου λῃσταὶ κερδανεῖν πού τι δοκοῦντες ἐσῆλθον ἐς τὸν τάφον, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖς λῃσταῖς ἐσῄεσαν ἤδη θεασόμενοι τὸν νεκρὸν τὰς πλευρὰς οὐκ ἔχοντα διεστώσας, ἄλλά οἱ συμφυὲς ἦν ὅσον ἀπʼ ὤμων ἐς τὰς ἐλαχίστας πλευράς, καλουμένας δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν νόθας.
Among the Magnesians on the Lethaeus, Protophanes, one of the citizens, won victories at Olympia on a single day in the pancratium and in wrestling; robbers, thinking they might gain something, entered his tomb, and after the robbers others went in to view the corpse, which did not have separate ribs, but they were grown together from the shoulders to the smallest ribs, called false ribs by doctors.
ἔστι δὲ Μιλησίοις πρὸ τῆς πόλεως Λάδη νῆσος, ἀπερρώγασι δὲ ἀπʼ αὐτῆς νησῖδες· Ἀστερίου τὴν ἑτέραν ὀνομάζουσι καὶ τὸν Ἀστέριον ἐν αὐτῇ ταφῆναι λέγουσιν, εἶναι δὲ Ἀστέριον μὲν Ἄνακτος, Ἄνακτα δὲ Γῆς παῖδα· ἔχει δʼ οὖν ὁ νεκρὸς οὐδέν τι μεῖον πηχῶν δέκα.
And for the Milesians there is the island of Lade before the city, and small islands are broken off from it; they call one of them the island of Asterius, and say that Asterius was buried in it, and that Asterius was the son of Anax, and Anax the son of Ge; at any rate, the corpse is no less than ten cubits.
§1.35.7τὸ δʼ ἐμοὶ θαῦμα παρασχόν, Λυδίας τῆς ἄνω πόλις ἐστὶν οὐ μεγάλη Τημένου θύραι· ἐνταῦθα παραραγέντος λόφου διὰ χειμῶνα ὀστᾶ ἐφάνη τὸ σχῆμα παρέχοντα ἐς πίστιν ὡς ἔστιν ἀνθρώπου, ἐπεὶ διὰ μέγεθος οὐκ ἔστιν ὅπως ἂν ἔδοξεν.
But that which caused wonder to me: there is a small city in Upper Lydia called Temenothyrae; there, when a hill was torn away by a storm, bones appeared presenting a shape that forced belief that they were human, since because of their size there is no way they would have seemed so.
αὐτίκα δὲ λόγος ἦλθεν ἐς τοὺς πολλοὺς Γηρυόνου τοῦ Χρυσάορος εἶναι μὲν τὸν νεκρόν, εἶναι δὲ καὶ τὸν θρόνον· καὶ γὰρ θρόνος ἀνδρός ἐστιν ἐνειργασμένος ὄρους λιθώδει προβολῇ· καὶ χείμαρρόν τε ποταμὸν Ὠκεανὸν ἐκάλουν καὶ βοῶν ἤδη κέρασιν ἔφασάν τινας ἐντυχεῖν ἀροῦντας, διότι ἔχει λόγος βοῦς ἀρίστας θρέψαι τὸν Γηρυόνην.
Immediately a rumor spread to the multitude that the corpse was that of Geryon, the son of Chrysaor, and that the throne was also there; for indeed a man's throne is carved in a stony projection of the mountain; and they called a torrent river the Ocean, and said that some people plowing had already encountered horns of cattle, since story has it that Geryon reared the finest cattle.
§1.35.8ἐπεὶ δέ σφισιν ἐναντιούμενος ἀπέφαινον ἐν Γαδείροις εἶναι Γηρυόνην, οὗ μνῆμα μὲν οὔ, δένδρον δὲ παρεχόμενον διαφόρους μορφάς, ἐνταῦθα οἱ τῶν Λυδῶν ἐξηγηταὶ τὸν ὄντα ἐδείκνυον λόγον, ὡς εἴη μὲν ὁ νεκρὸς Ὕλλου, παῖς δὲ Ὕλλος εἴη Γῆς, ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ ὁ ποταμὸς ὠνομάσθη· Ἡρακλέα δὲ διὰ τὴν παρʼ Ὀμφάλῃ ποτὲ ἔφασαν δίαιταν Ὕλλον ἀπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ καλέσαι τὸν παῖδα.
But when I, opposing them, pointed out that Geryon was in Gadeira, where there is no tomb of his, but a tree presenting various shapes, then the guides of the Lydians showed the true story, that the corpse was that of Hyllus, and that Hyllus was a son of Ge, from whom the river was named; and they said that Heracles, because of his dwelling once with Omphale, called his son Hyllus after the river.