§10.18.1τὸν δὲ ἵππον, ὃς ἐφεξῆς τῇ εἰκόνι ἐστὶ τοῦ Σάρδου, Ἀθηναῖος Καλλίας Λυσιμαχίδου πατρὸς ἀναθεῖναί φησιν ἰδίᾳ περιποιησάμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ πρὸς Πέρσας πολέμου χρήματα.
The horse, which is next to the statue of Sardus, the inscription says was dedicated by Callias the Athenian, son of Lysimachides, who had acquired the funds privately from the war against the Persians.
Ἀχαιοὶ δὲ ἀνέθεσαν Ἀθηνᾶς ἄγαλμα πόλιν τῶν ἐν Αἰτωλίᾳ παραστησάμενοι πολιορκίᾳ· τῇ πόλει δὲ ἣν εἷλον Φάνα τοὔνομα ἦν.
The Achaeans dedicated a statue of Athena having subdued one of the cities in Aetolia by siege; the name of the city which they captured was Phana.
γενέσθαι δὲ χρόνον φασὶν οὐκ ὀλίγον τῇ πολιορκίᾳ· καὶ ὡς ἀδυνάτως εἶχον ἑλεῖν τὴν πόλιν, θεωροὺς ἀποστέλλουσιν ἐς Δελφούς, καὶ αὐτοῖς ἀφίκετο μάντευμα· §10.18.2"
γῆς Πέλοπος ναέται καὶ Ἀχαιίδος, οἳ ποτὶ Πυθώ
ἤλθετε πευσόμενοι ὥς κε πτολίεθρον ἕλητε,
ἀλλʼ ἄγε δὴ φράζεσθε λάχος πόσον ἦμαρ ἕκαστον
λαῶν πινόντων ῥύεται πόλιν, ἡ δὲ πέπωκεν· οὕτω γάρ κεν ἕλοιτε Φάναν πυργήρεα κώμην. " §10.18.3οὐ συνιέντες οὖν ὁποῖόν τι ἤθελεν ὁ χρησμὸς λέγειν, οἱ μὲν οἴκαδε ἀποπλεῖν ἐβουλεύοντο διαλύσαντες τὴν πολιορκίαν, οἱ δὲ ἐντὸς τοῦ τείχους οἵ τε ἄλλοι οὐδενὶ λόγῳ σφᾶς ἐνεποιοῦντο καὶ γυνὴ πρόεισιν ἐκ τοῦ τείχους ὕδωρ ἐκ τῆς ὑπὸ τῷ τείχει λαβεῖν πίδακος.
They say that no short time was spent on the siege; and since they were unable to capture the city, they dispatched envoys to Delphi, and an oracle came to them: "Inhabitants of the land of Pelops and Achaea, who have come to Pytho to inquire how you may capture the city, come now, consider how much portion of water the people drinking each day saves the city, and how much she has already drunk; for thus you may capture Phana, the tower-girt village." Therefore, not understanding what the oracle wished to say, some were planning to sail home, breaking off the siege; but those within the wall took no account of them at all, and a woman came out of the wall to get water from the spring beneath the wall.
ἐπιδραμόντες δὲ ἐκ τοῦ στρατεύματος αἰχμάλωτόν τε τὴν γυναῖκα αἱροῦσι καὶ διδάσκονται παρʼ αὐτῆς οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ ὅτι τὸ ὀλίγον τὸ ἐκ τῆς πίδακος ὕδωρ, ὁπότε ἐφʼ ἑκάστης λάβοιεν τῆς νυκτός, διεμετροῦντο αὐτό, καὶ ἄλλο ἦν τοῖς ἔνδον ἀλέξημα οὐδὲν ἐς δίψαν.
Rushing from the army, they took the woman prisoner, and from her the Achaeans learned that they measured out the little water from the spring whenever they fetched it each night, and there was no other defense against thirst for those inside.
οὕτω δὴ συγχέαντες οἱ Ἀχαιοὶ τὴν πηγὴν τὸ πόλισμα αἱροῦσιν.
Thus the Achaeans, having disturbed the spring, captured the town.
§10.18.4Ῥόδιοι δὲ οἱ ἐν Λίνδῳ παρὰ ταύτην τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν τὸ ἄγαλμα ἔστησαν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος.
The Rhodians of Lindos set up the statue of Apollo next to this Athena.
ἀνέθεσαν δὲ καὶ Ἀβρακιῶται χαλκοῦν ὄνον, νυκτομαχίᾳ Μολοσσοὺς νικήσαντες.
The Ambraciots also dedicated a bronze donkey, having defeated the Molossians in a night battle.
λόχον μέν σφισιν ἐν νυκτὶ οἱ Μολοσσοὶ παρεσκεύασαν· ὄνου δέ, ὃς ἐλαυνόμενος ἐκ τοῦ ἀγροῦ τότε ἔτυχεν, ὄνον θήλειαν διώκοντος σὺν ὕβρει τε τῇ ἄλλῃ καὶ τραχύτητι τοῦ φθέγματος, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ὃς τὸν ὄνον ἤλαυνε βοῶντος ἀσαφῆ τε καὶ ἄκοσμα, οὕτως οἵ τε ἐκ τῆς ἐνέδρας τῶν Μολοσσῶν ἐξανίστανται ταραχθέντες καὶ οἱ Ἀμβρακιῶται φωράσαντες τὰ ἐπὶ σφίσι βεβουλευμένα ἐπιχειροῦσιν ἐν τῇ νυκτί, καὶ ἐκράτησαν μάχῃ τῶν Μολοσσῶν.
The Molossians had prepared an ambush for them in the night; but a donkey, which happened then to be driven from the field, pursuing a female donkey with lust and a harshness of voice, and likewise the man who drove the donkey shouting indistinctly and in a disorderly manner, thus those from the ambush of the Molossians arose in confusion, and the Ambraciots, having detected the plot against them, attacked in the night and prevailed over the Molossians in battle.
§10.18.5Ὀρνεᾶται δὲ οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἀργολίδι πολέμῳ σφᾶς Σικυωνίων πιεζόντων τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι εὔξαντο, εἰ ἀπώσαιντο ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος τῶν Σικυωνίων τὸν στρατόν, πομπήν τε ἐν Δελφοῖς αὐτῷ στελεῖν ὁσημέραι καὶ ἱερεῖα θύσειν οἷα δὴ καὶ ὅσα ἀριθμόν.
The Orneatae in Argolis, when the Sicyonians were pressing them in war, vowed to Apollo that if they should drive the army of the Sicyonians from their country, they would conduct a procession for him at Delphi every day and sacrifice victims of such kind and number.
νικῶσί τε δὴ μάχῃ τοὺς Σικυωνίους, καὶ ὥς σφισιν ἐφʼ ἡμέρας πάσης ἀποδιδοῦσι τὰ κατὰ τὴν εὐχὴν δαπάνη τε ἦν μεγάλη καὶ μείζων ἔτι τοῦ ἀναλώματος ἡ ταλαιπωρία, οὕτω δὴ σόφισμα εὑρίσκουσιν ἀναθεῖναι τῷ θεῷ θυσίαν τε καὶ πομπὴν χαλκᾶ ποιήματα.
They defeated the Sicyonians in battle, and as they were performing the vows on every single day, the expense was great and the trouble even greater than the cost; thus they found a device to dedicate the sacrifice and the procession to the god as bronze works.
§10.18.6ἔστιν ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἄθλων τῶν Ἡρακλέους τὸ ἐς τὴν ὕδραν, ἀνάθημά τε ὁμοῦ Τισαγόρου καὶ τέχνη, σιδήρου καὶ ἡ ὕδρα καὶ ὁ Ἡρακλῆς.
There is also here the labor of Heracles against the Hydra, at once the dedication and the work of Tisagoras, both the Hydra and Heracles being of iron.
σιδήρου δὲ ἐργασίαν τὴν ἐπὶ ἀγάλμασι χαλεπωτάτην καὶ πόνου συμβέβηκεν εἶναι πλείστου· θαύματος μὲν δὴ καὶ τοῦ Τισαγόρου τὸ ἔργον, ὅστις δὴ ὁ Τισαγόρας, θαύματος δὲ οὐκ ἐλαχίστου καὶ ἐν Περγάμῳ λέοντός τε καὶ ὑὸς ἀγρίου κεφαλαί, σιδήρου καὶ αὗται· Διονύσῳ δὲ ἀναθήματα σφᾶς ἐποιήσαντο.
The working of iron for statues happens to be extremely difficult and of the greatest labor; the work of Tisagoras, whoever this Tisagoras was, is indeed worthy of wonder, and of no less wonder are also the heads of a lion and a wild boar in Pergamum, these also being of iron; they made these dedications to Dionysus.
§10.18.7Φωκέων δὲ οἱ ἔχοντες Ἐλάτειαν—ἀντέσχον γὰρ τῇ Κασσάνδρου πολιορκίᾳ Ὀλυμπιοδώρου σφίσιν ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν ἀμύνοντος—λέοντα τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι χαλκοῦν ἀποπέμπουσιν ἐς Δελφούς.
Those of the Phocians who hold Elatea—for they held out against the siege of Cassander when Olympiodorus defended them from Athens—sent a bronze lion to Apollo at Delphi.
ὁ δὲ Ἀπόλλων ὁ ἐγγυτάτω τοῦ λέοντος Μασσαλιωτῶν ἐστιν ἀπὸ τῆς πρὸς Καρχηδονίους ἀπαρχὴ ναυμαχίας.
The Apollo closest to the lion belongs to the Massaliots, a first-fruit from the sea-fight against the Carthaginians.
πεποίηται δὲ ὑπὸ Αἰτωλῶν τρόπαιόν τε καὶ γυναικὸς ἄγαλμα ὡπλισμένης, ἡ Αἰτωλία δῆθεν· ταῦτα ἀνέθεσαν ἐπιθέντες οἱ Αἰτωλοὶ Γαλάταις δίκην ὠμότητος τῆς ἐς Καλλιέας.
A trophy and a statue of an armed woman, indeed representing Aetolia, have been made by the Aetolians; these the Aetolians dedicated after inflicting punishment on the Galatians for their cruelty against the Callieis.
ἐπίχρυσος δὲ εἰκών, ἀνάθημα Γοργίου τοῦ ἐκ Λεοντίνων, αὐτὸς Γοργίας ἐστίν.
The gilded image, a dedication of Gorgias of Leontini, is Gorgias himself.