§10.14.1οἱ δὲ πελέκεις Περικλύτου τοῦ Εὐθυμάχου Τενεδίου ἀνδρὸς ἐπὶ λόγῳ ἀνάθημά εἰσιν ἀρχαίῳ.
The axes are a dedicatory offering, based on an ancient story, of Periclytus, son of Euthymachus, a Tenedian.
Κύκνον παῖδα εἶναι Ποσειδῶνος καὶ βασιλεύειν φασὶν ἐν Κολώναις· αἱ δὲ ᾠκοῦντο ἐν γῇ τῇ Τρῳάδι αἱ Κολῶναι κατὰ νῆσον κείμεναι Λεύκοφρυν.
They say that Cycnus was a son of Poseidon and ruled in Colonae; and Colonae was inhabited in the Troad, lying opposite the island of Leukophrys.
§10.14.2ἔχοντος δὲ θυγατέρα ὄνομα Ἡμιθέαν τοῦ Κύκνου καὶ υἱὸν καλούμενον Τέννην ἐκ Προκλείας—ἣ Κλυτίου μὲν ἦν θυγάτηρ, ἀδελφὴ δὲ Καλήτορος, ὃν Ὅμηρος ἐν Ἰλιάδι ἀποθανεῖν φησιν ὑπὸ Αἴαντος, ὅτε ὑπὸ τὴν Πρωτεσιλάου ναῦν ἔφερεν ὁ Καλήτωρ τὸ πῦρ—ταύτης οὖν προαποθανούσης ἡ ἐπεισελθοῦσα Φιλονόμη ἡ Κραγάσου —διήμαρτε γὰρ ἐρασθεῖσα τοῦ Τέννου—ψεύδεται πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα ὡς αὐτὴ μὲν οὐκ ἐθέλουσα, τὸν δὲ αὑτῇ Τέννην συγγενέσθαι θελήσαντα·
Cycnus had a daughter named Hemithea and a son called Tennes by Procleia—who was a daughter of Clytius and a sister of Caletor, of whom Homer says in the Iliad that he died at the hands of Ajax when Caletor was bringing fire to the ship of Protesilaus—and when she had died before him, Philonome, daughter of Cragasus, who married him afterwards—for she had fallen in love with Tennes and failed in her desire—lied to her husband, claiming that she herself was unwilling, but Tennes had wished to lie with her.
καὶ ὁ Κύκνος πείθεται τῇ ἀπάτῃ, καὶ ἐς λάρνακα ἐνθέμενος ὁμοῦ τῇ ἀδελφῇ Τέννην ἐς θάλασσαν σφᾶς ἀφίησι.
Cycnus was persuaded by the deception, and placing Tennes along with his sister in a chest, he cast them into the sea.
§10.14.3σώζονταί τε δὴ πρὸς τὴν νῆσον οἱ παῖδες τὴν Λεύκοφρυν καὶ ὄνομα ἡ νῆσος τὸ νῦν ἔσχεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Τέννου.
And the children safely reached the island of Leukophrys, and the island received its present name from Tennes.
Κύκνος δὲ—οὐ γὰρ τὸν πάντα ἔμελλε χρόνον ἀγνοήσειν ἀπατώμενος—ἔπλει παρὰ τὸν υἱὸν ἄγνοιάν τε ὁμολογήσων τὴν αὑτοῦ καὶ παραιτησόμενος τὸ ἁμάρτημα· προσορμισαμένου δὲ τῇ νήσῳ καὶ ἐξάψαντος ἀπὸ τῆς νεὼς πρός τινα ἢ πέτραν ἢ δένδρον τοὺς κάλους, Τέννης πελέκει σφᾶς ἀπέκοψεν ὑπὸ τοῦ θυμοῦ.
But Cycnus—for he was not going to remain forever ignorant of his deception—sailed to his son to confess his own ignorance and beg pardon for his mistake; but when he anchored at the island and fastened the cables from his ship to some rock or tree, Tennes in his anger cut them off with an axe.
§10.14.4ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἐς τοὺς ἀρνουμένους στερεῶς λέγεσθαι καθέστηκεν ὡς ὁ δεῖνα ὅστις δὴ Τενεδίῳ πελέκει τόδε τι ἀποκόψειεν.
Upon this, it became established as a saying directed against those who obstinately deny something, that so-and-so cut off such-and-such with a Tenedian axe.
Τέννην μὲν ὑπὸ Ἀχιλλέως ἀποθανεῖν ἀμύνοντα τῇ οἰκείᾳ φασὶν Ἕλληνες· Τενέδιοι δὲ ἀνὰ χρόνον ὑπὸ ἀσθενείας προσεχώρησαν τοῖς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ τῇ Τρῳάδι ἔχουσιν.
The Greeks say that Tennes was killed by Achilles while defending his homeland; and the Tenedians, in course of time, through weakness, attached themselves to those who possessed Alexandria in the Troad on the continent.
§10.14.5Ἕλληνες δὲ οἱ ἐναντία βασιλέως πολεμήσαντες ἀνέθεσαν μὲν Δία ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν χαλκοῦν, ἀνέθεσαν δὲ καὶ ἐς Δελφοὺς Ἀπόλλωνα ἀπὸ ἔργων τῶν ἐν ταῖς ναυσὶν ἐπί τε Ἀρτεμισίῳ καὶ ἐν Σαλαμῖνι.
The Greeks who fought against the King dedicated a bronze Zeus to Olympia, and also an Apollo to Delphi, from the exploits in the sea fights at Artemisium and Salamis.
λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡς Θεμιστοκλῆς ἀφίκοιτο ἐς Δελφοὺς λαφύρων τῶν Μηδικῶν κομίζων τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι· ἐρωτήσαντα δὲ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀναθημάτων εἰ ἐντὸς ἀναθήσει τοῦ ναοῦ, ἐκέλευεν αὐτὸν ἡ Πυθία τὰ παράπαν ἀποφέρειν ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ.
It is also said that Themistocles came to Delphi bringing Median spoils for Apollo; but when he asked concerning the offerings, whether he should dedicate them inside the temple, the Pythia ordered him to carry them away from the sanctuary altogether.
καὶ ἔχει οὕτω τὰ ἐς τοῦ τοῦ χρησμοῦ· "
μή μοι Περσῆος σκύλων περικαλλέα κόσμον
νηῷ ἐγκαταθῇς· οἶκόνδʼ ἀπόπεμπε τάχιστα. " §10.14.6θαῦμα οὖν ἐποιούμεθα εἰ ἀπηξίωσεν ἐκείνου μόνου μὴ προσέσθαι τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν Μήδων.
And the oracle runs thus: "Place not within my temple the beautiful adornment of the Persian's spoils; send it home with all speed." We were therefore wondering whether he disdained to accept the gifts from the Medes from him alone.
καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀπώσασθαι ἂν τὸν θεὸν καὶ ἅπαντα ὁμοίως ἡγοῦντο ὅσα ἀπὸ τοῦ Πέρσου, εἰ ὥσπερ ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι πρότερον ἢ ἀναθεῖναι σφᾶς ἐπήροντο τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα·
And some thought that the god would have rejected all things from the Persian equally, if they, like Themistocles, had asked Apollo before dedicating them.
οἱ δὲ εἰδότα τὸν θεὸν ὅτι ἱκέτης τοῦ Πέρσου γενήσοιτο ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς, ἐπὶ τούτῳ τὰ δῶρα ἔφασαν οὐκ ἐθελῆσαι λαβεῖν, ἵνα μὴ ἀναθέντι τὸ ἔχθος ἄπαυστον ποιήσῃ τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ Μήδου.
Others said that the god, knowing that Themistocles would become a suppliant of the Persian, refused on this account to take the gifts, lest by accepting them he should make the hatred from the Mede unending for the dedicator.
στρατείαν δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα τοῦ βαρβάρου ἔστιν εὑρεῖν προρρηθεῖσαν μὲν ἐν τοῖς Βάκιδος χρησμοῖς, πρότερον δʼ ἔτι Εὔκλῳ τὰ ἐς αὐτὴν πεποιημένα ἐστίν.
But the expedition of the barbarian against Greece is to be found predicted in the oracles of Bacis, and even earlier still, verses had been made about it by Euclus.
§10.14.7Δελφῶν δὲ ἀνάθημά ἐστιν αὐτῶν πλησίον τοῦ βωμοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου λύκος χαλκοῦς.
The dedicatory offering of the Delphians themselves, near the great altar, is a bronze wolf.
λέγουσι δὲ τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ χρημάτων συλήσαντα ἄνθρωπον, τὸν μὲν ὁμοῦ τῷ χρυσίῳ κατακρύψαντα ἔχειν αὑτὸν ἔνθα τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ μάλιστα ἦν συνεχὲς ὑπὸ ἀγρίων δένδρων, λύκον δὲ ἐπιθέσθαι οἱ καθεύδοντι, καὶ ἀποθανεῖν τε ὑπὸ τοῦ λύκου τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ὡς ἐς τὴν πόλιν ὁσημέραι φοιτῶν ὠρύετο ὁ λύκος·
And they say that a man who had plundered the treasures of the god hid himself along with the gold in that part of Parnassus where the wild trees grew thickest, and a wolf attacked him while he slept, and the man was killed by the wolf.
ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐκ ἄνευ θεοῦ παραγίνεσθαί σφισιν ὑπελάμβανον, οὕτως ἐπακολουθοῦσι τῷ θηρίῳ, καὶ ἀνευρίσκουσί τε τὸ ἱερὸν χρυσίον καὶ ἀνέθεσαν λύκον τῷ θεῷ χαλκοῦν.
The wolf then used to go daily into the city and howl; and since they supposed that it did not come to them without the hand of a god, they followed the beast, found the sacred gold, and dedicated a bronze wolf to the god.