§10.6.1πόλιν δὲ ἀρχαιοτάτην οἰκισθῆναί φασιν ἐνταῦθα ὑπὸ Παρνασσοῦ, Κλεοδώρας δὲ εἶναι νύμφης παῖδα αὐτόν· καί οἱ πατέρας, καθάπερ γε καὶ ἄλλοις τῶν καλουμένων ἡρώων, Ποσειδῶνά τε θεὸν καὶ Κλεόπομπον ἄνδρα ἐπονομάζουσιν.
They say that a most ancient city was founded here by Parnassus, and that he himself was the son of the nymph Cleodora; and they name as his fathers, just as they do indeed for others of those called heroes, both Poseidon the god and Cleopompus the man.
ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ τῷ τε ὄρει τὸ ὄνομα τεθῆναι λέγουσι καὶ Παρνασσίαν ὀνομασθῆναι νάπην· τῶν πετομένων τε ὀρνίθων τὴν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν μαντείαν γενέσθαι Παρνασσοῦ τὸ εὕρημα.
And they say that from this Parnassus the name was given to the mountain, and the glen was named Parnassia; and that the divination from flying birds was the discovery of Parnassus.
§10.6.2ταύτην μὲν οὖν κατακλυσθῆναι τὴν πόλιν ὑπὸ τῶν ὄμβρων τῶν κατὰ Δευκαλίωνα συμβάντων· τῶν δὲ ἀνθρώπων ὅσοι διαφυγεῖν τὸν χειμῶνα ἠδυνήθησαν, λύκων ὠρυγαῖς ἀπεσώθησαν ἐς τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ τὰ ἄκρα ὑπὸ ἡγεμόσι τῆς πορείας τοῖς θηρίοις, πόλιν δὲ ἣν ἔκτισαν ἐκάλεσαν ἐπὶ τούτῳ Λυκώρειαν.
Now this city was flooded by the rains that occurred in the time of Deucalion; but those of the men who were able to escape the storm were saved to the summits of Parnassus by the howls of wolves, with the wild beasts as leaders of their journey, and the city which they founded they called Lycoreia because of this.
§10.6.3λέγεται δὲ καὶ ἄλλος διάφορος λόγος τῷ προτέρῳ, Ἀπόλλωνι ἐκ νύμφης Κωρυκίας γενέσθαι Λύκωρον, καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν Λυκώρου πόλιν Λυκώρειαν, τὸ ἄντρον δὲ ὀνομασθῆναι τὸ Κωρύκιον ἀπὸ τῆς νύμφης.
Another story, different from the former, is also told, that Lycorus was born to Apollo from the nymph Corycia, and that from Lycorus the city was named Lycoreia, and the Corycian cave was named after the nymph.
λέγεται δὲ καὶ τάδε, Κελαινὼ θυγατέρα Ὑάμῳ τῷ Λυκώρου γενέσθαι, Δελφὸν δέ, ἀφʼ οὗ τῇ πόλει τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἐστι, Κελαινοῦς τε αὐτὸν τῆς Ὑάμου καὶ Ἀπόλλωνος εἶναι.
And the following is also said, that Celaeno was born as a daughter to Hyamus the son of Lycorus, and that Delphus, from whom the city has its name in our time, was the son of Celaeno, the daughter of Hyamus, and Apollo.
§10.6.4οἱ δὲ Καστάλιόν τε ἄνδρα αὐτόχθονα καὶ θυγατέρα ἐθέλουσιν αὐτῷ γενέσθαι Θυίαν, καὶ ἱερᾶσθαί τε τὴν Θυίαν Διονύσῳ πρῶτον καὶ ὄργια ἀγαγεῖν τῷ θεῷ· ἀπὸ ταύτης δὲ καὶ ὕστερον ὅσαι τῷ Διονύσῳ μαίνονται Θυιάδας καλεῖσθαι σφᾶς ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπων· Ἀπόλλωνος δʼ οὖν παῖδα καὶ Θυίας νομίζουσιν εἶναι Δελφόν.
But others maintain that Castalius was an indigenous man and that a daughter, Thyia, was born to him, and that Thyia was the first to serve as priestess to Dionysus and to celebrate orgies for the god; and that from her, later on, all those who rave for Dionysus are called Thyiades by men; at any rate, they believe Delphus to be the son of Apollo and Thyia.
οἱ δὲ μητρὸς Μελαίνης φασὶν αὐτόν, θυγατρὸς Κηφισοῦ.
But others say he was of the mother Melaine, daughter of Cephisus.
§10.6.5χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον καὶ Πυθὼ τὴν πόλιν, οὐ Δελφοὺς μόνον ἐκάλεσαν οἱ περιοικοῦντες, καθὰ καὶ Ὁμήρῳ πεποιημένα ἐν καταλόγῳ Φωκέων ἐστίν.
In later times, the inhabitants around called the city Pytho as well, not only Delphi, just as Homer has composed in the catalogue of the Phocians.
οἱ μὲν δὴ γενεαλογεῖν τὰ πάντα ἐθέλοντες παῖδα εἶναι Δελφοῦ Πύθην καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου βασιλεύσαντος γενέσθαι τῇ πόλει τὸ ὄνομα ἥγηνται· λόγος δὲ ὃς ἥκει τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐς τοὺς πολλούς, τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τοξευθέντα σήπεσθαί φησιν ἐνταῦθα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὄνομα τῇ πόλει γενέσθαι Πυθώ· πύθεσθαι γὰρ δὴ τὰ σηπόμενα οἱ τότε ἔλεγον, καὶ τοῦδε ἕνεκα Ὅμηρος πεποίηκεν ὡς ἡ τῶν Σειρήνων νῆσος ἀνάπλεως ὀστῶν εἴη, ὅτι οἱ τῆς ᾠδῆς αὐτῶν ἀκούοντες ἐπύθοντο ἄνθρωποι.
Indeed, those who wish to trace genealogies for everything think that Pythes was the son of Delphus and that from him, who ruled as king, the name came to the city; but the story which has reached the majority of men says that the one shot by Apollo rotted here, and because of this the name of the city became Pytho; for those of that time used to say 'pythesthai' for rotting, and for this reason Homer composed that the island of the Sirens was full of bones, because the men who heard their song rotted.
§10.6.6τὸν δὲ ἀποθανόντα ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος ποιηταὶ μὲν δράκοντα εἶναι καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ μαντείῳ φύλακα ὑπὸ Γῆς τετάχθαι φασί· λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡς Κριοῦ δυναστεύοντος ἀνδρὸς περὶ Εὔβοιαν παῖς γένοιτο ὑβριστής, καὶ ἐσύλησε μὲν τοῦ θεοῦ τὸ ἱερόν, ἐσύλησε δὲ καὶ οἴκους ἀνδρῶν εὐδαιμόνων.
As for the one who died by Apollo, the poets say that he was a dragon and was appointed by Earth as a guardian over the oracle; but it is also said that when Crius was a ruling man around Euboea, an insolent son was born to him, and he plundered the temple of the god, and also plundered the houses of wealthy men.
ὡς δὲ ἐπεστράτευε καὶ δεύτερον, ἐνταῦθα οἱ Δελφοὶ τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα ἱκέτευον ἀμῦναί σφισι τὸν ἐπιόντα κίνδυνον· §10.6.7καὶ ἡ Φημονόη πρόμαντις τηνικαῦτα οὖσα ἐν ἑξαμέτρῳ σφίσιν ἔχρησεν· "
ἀγχοῦ δὴ βαρὺν ἰὸν ἐπʼ ἀνέρι Φοῖβος ἐφήσει
σίντῃ Παρνησσοῖο· φόνου δέ ἑ Κρήσιοι ἄνδρες
χεῖρας ἁγιστεύςουσι· τὸ δὲ κλέος οὔ ποτʼ ὀλεῖται.
And when he made a second expedition, the Delphians here supplicated Apollo to ward off the coming danger from them; and Phemone, being the prophetess at that time, gave them an oracle in hexameter: "Indeed close at hand Phoebus will launch a heavy arrow upon the man, the plunderer of Parnassus; and Cretan men shall purify his hands from the slaying; and the glory shall never perish.
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