§10.29.1τῶν δὲ ἤδη μοι κατειλεγμένων εἰσὶν ἀνώτεροι τούτων ἱερεῖα οἱ ἑταῖροι τοῦ Ὀδυσσέως Περιμήδης καὶ Εὐρύλοχος φέροντες· τὰ δέ ἐστι μέλανες κριοὶ τὰ ἱερεῖα.
Above those already listed by me are the companions of Odysseus, Perimedes and Eurylochus, carrying victims; the victims are black rams.
μετὰ δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀνήρ ἐστι καθήμενος, ἐπίγραμμα δὲ Ὄκνον εἶναι λέγει τὸν ἄνθρωπον·
After them is a man sitting, and an inscription says that the man is Ocnus.
πεποίηται μὲν πλέκων σχοινίον, παρέστηκε δὲ θήλεια ὄνος ἐπεσθίουσα τὸ πεπλεγμένον ἀεὶ τοῦ σχοινίου.
He is represented as weaving a rope, and a female donkey stands by, eating up what of the rope has been woven from time to time.
τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν Ὄκνον φίλεργόν φασιν ἄνθρωπον, γυναῖκα δὲ ἔχειν δαπανηράν· καὶ ὁπόσα συλλέξαιτο ἐργαζόμενος, οὐ πολὺ δὴ ὕστερον ὑπὸ ἐκείνης ἀνήλωτο.
They say that this Ocnus was an industrious man, but had a spendthrift wife; and whatever he gathered by his labor was not long after consumed by her.
§10.29.2τὰ οὖν ἐς τοῦ Ὄκνου τὴν γυναῖκα ἐθέλουσιν αἰνίξασθαι τὸν Πολύγνωτον.
It is on account of Ocnus' wife, therefore, that they interpret Polygnotus to have wished to speak in riddles.
οἶδα δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ Ἰώνων, ὁπότε ἴδοιέν τινα πονοῦντα ἐπὶ οὐδενὶ ὄνησιν φέροντι, ὑπὸ τούτων εἰρημένον ὡς ὁ ἀνὴρ οὗτος συνάγει τοῦ Ὄκνου τὴν θώμιγγα.
I know also that when the Ionians see someone laboring at what brings no profit, it is said by them that this man is gathering Ocnus' rope.
ὄκνον δʼ οὖν καὶ μάντεων οἱ ὁρῶντες τοὺς οἰωνοὺς καλοῦσί τινα ὄρνιθα· καὶ ἔστιν οὗτος ὁ ὄκνος μέγιστος μὲν καὶ κάλλιστος ἐρωδιῶν, εἰ δὲ ἄλλος τις ὀρνίθων σπάνιός ἐστι καὶ οὗτος.
But Ocnus is also what those among the seers who watch birds call a certain bird; and this Ocnus is the largest and most beautiful of herons, and if indeed any other bird is rare, this one is so too.
§10.29.3γέγραπται δὲ καὶ Τιτυὸς οὐ κολαζόμενος ἔτι, ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ συνεχοῦς τῆς τιμωρίας ἐς ἅπαν ἐξανηλωμένος, ἀμυδρὸν καὶ οὐδὲ ὁλόκληρον εἴδωλον.
Tityus also is painted, no longer being punished, but utterly wasted away by the continuous punishment, a dim and not even complete phantom.
ἐπιόντι δὲ ἐφεξῆς τὰ ἐν τῇ γραφῇ, ἔστιν ἐγγυτάτω τοῦ στρέφοντος τὸ καλῴδιον Ἀριάδνη· κάθηται μὲν ἐπὶ πέτρας, ὁρᾷ δὲ ἐς τὴν ἀδελφὴν Φαίδραν, τό τε ἄλλο αἰωρουμένην σῶμα ἐν σειρᾷ καὶ ταῖς χερσὶν ἀμφοτέραις ἑκατέρωθεν τῆς σειρᾶς ἐχομένην·
To one proceeding in order through the things in the painting, nearest to the one twisting the cord is Ariadne; she sits upon a rock, and looks at her sister Phaedra, who is swinging the rest of her body on a rope and holding on with both hands on either side of the rope.
παρεῖχε δὲ τὸ σχῆμα καίπερ ἐς τὸ εὐπρεπέστερον πεποιημένον συμβάλλεσθαι τὰ ἐς τῆς Φαίδρας τὴν τελευτήν.
The attitude, although depicted in a more decorous way, suggested a conjecture of the end of Phaedra.
§10.29.4τὴν δὲ Ἀριάδνην ἢ κατά τινα ἐπιτυχὼν δαίμονα ἢ καὶ ἐπίτηδες αὐτὴν λοχήσας ἀφείλετο Θησέα ἐπιπλεύσας Διόνυσος στόλῳ μείζονι, οὐκ ἄλλος κατὰ ἐμὴν δόξαν, ἀλλὰ ὁ πρῶτος μὲν ἐλάσας ἐπὶ Ἰνδοὺς στρατείᾳ, πρῶτος δὲ Εὐφράτην γεφυρώσας ποταμόν·
As for Ariadne, Dionysus took her from Theseus, sailing against him with a larger fleet, either having fallen in with her by some divine chance or else having set an ambush for her on purpose.
Ζεῦγμά τε ὠνομάσθη πόλις καθʼ ὅ τι ἐζεύχθη τῆς χώρας ὁ Εὐφράτης, καὶ ἔστιν ἐνταῦθα ὁ κάλως καὶ ἐς ἡμᾶς ἐν ᾧ τὸν ποταμὸν ἔζευξεν, ἀμπελίνοις ὁμοῦ πεπλεγμένος καὶ κισσοῦ κλήμασι.
This Dionysus, in my opinion, was no other than the one who first marched on the Indians with an army, and first bridged the river Euphrates; and Zeugma was the name given to the city where the Euphrates was bridged in that territory, and there is still preserved there down to our time the cable with which he bridged the river, woven together with vine-twigs and ivy-shoots.
§10.29.5τὰ μὲν δὴ ἐς Διόνυσον πολλὰ ὑπό τε Ἑλλήνων λεγόμενα καὶ ὑπὸ Αἰγυπτίων ἐστίν· ὑπὸ δὲ τὴν Φαίδραν ἐστὶν ἀνακεκλιμένη Χλῶρις ἐπὶ τῆς Θυίας γόνασιν.
Indeed, many things are said about Dionysus both by Greeks and by Egyptians; and under Phaedra is Chloris reclining on the knees of Thyia.
οὐχ ἁμαρτήσεται μὲν δὴ οὐδὲ ὅστις φησὶ φιλίαν εἶναι ἐς ἀλλήλας, ἡνίκα ἔτυχον αἱ γυναῖκες ζῶσαι· ἦσαν γὰρ δὴ ἡ μὲν ἐξ Ὀρχομενοῦ τοῦ ἐν Βοιωτίᾳ ἡ Χλῶρις, ἡ δὲ Κασταλίου θυγάτηρ ἀπὸ τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ.
Nor indeed will anyone be wrong who says that there was friendship between them when the women happened to be alive; for Chloris indeed was from Orchomenus in Boeotia, and the other was the daughter of Castalius from Parnassus.
εἶπον δʼ ἂν καὶ ἄλλοι τὸν ἐς αὐτὰς λόγον, τῇ μὲν συγγενέσθαι Ποσειδῶνα τῇ Θυίᾳ, Χλῶριν δὲ Ποσειδῶνος παιδὶ Νηλεῖ συνοικῆσαι.
Others would also tell the story about them, that Poseidon united with Thyia, and Chloris married Neleus, the son of Poseidon.