§5.17.1ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ἔχει κατὰ τὰ προειρημένα·
These matters are indeed as previously stated.
τῆς Ἥρας δέ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ ναῷ Διός, τὸ δὲ Ἥρας ἄγαλμα καθήμενόν ἐστιν ἐπὶ θρόνῳ· παρέστηκε δὲ γένειά τε ἔχων καὶ ἐπικείμενος κυνῆν ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ, ἔργα δέ ἐστιν ἁπλᾶ.
Inside the temple of Hera there is a statue of Zeus, and the statue of Hera is seated upon a throne; and he stands beside her, wearing a beard and having a helmet upon his head, and these are simple works.
τὰς δὲ ἐφεξῆς τούτων καθημένας ἐπὶ θρόνων Ὥρας ἐποίησεν Αἰγινήτης Σμῖλις.
Next to these, the Horae seated upon thrones were made by Smilis of Aegina.
παρὰ δὲ αὐτὰς Θέμιδος ἅτε μητρὸς τῶν Ὡρῶν ἄγαλμα ἕστηκε Δορυκλείδου τέχνη, γένος μὲν Λακεδαιμονίου, μαθητοῦ δὲ Διποίνου καὶ Σκύλλιδος.
Beside them stands a statue of Themis as the mother of the Horae, a work of Dorycleidas, a Lacedaemonian by birth, and a pupil of Dipoenus and Scyllis.
§5.17.2τὰς δὲ Ἑσπερίδας πέντε ἀριθμὸν Θεοκλῆς ἐποίησε, Λακεδαιμόνιος μὲν καὶ οὗτος, πατρὸς Ἡγύλου, φοιτῆσαι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς παρὰ Σκύλλιν καὶ Δίποινον λέγεται.
The Hesperides, five in number, were made by Theocles, who was also a Lacedaemonian, the son of Hegylus, and he himself is said to have studied under Scyllis and Dipoenus.
τὴν δὲ Ἀθηνᾶν κράνος ἐπικειμένην καὶ δόρυ καὶ ἀσπίδα ἔχουσαν Λακεδαιμονίου λέγουσιν ἔργον εἶναι Μέδοντος, τοῦτον δὲ ἀδελφόν τε εἶναι Δορυκλείδου καὶ παρὰ ἀνδράσι διδαχθῆναι τοῖς αὐτοῖς.
The Athena wearing a helmet and having a spear and a shield they say is the work of Medon, a Lacedaemonian, and they say he was a brother of Dorycleidas and was taught by the same masters.
§5.17.3Κόρη δὲ καὶ Δημήτηρ καὶ Ἀπόλλων καὶ Ἄρτεμις, αἱ μὲν ἀλλήλων εἰσὶν ἀπαντικρὺ καθήμεναι, Ἀπόλλων δὲ ἐναντίος ἑστώσῃ τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι ἕστηκεν.
As for Core and Demeter, Apollo and Artemis, the former two are seated opposite one another, while Apollo stands opposite Artemis who is standing.
ἀνάκειται δὲ ἐνταῦθα καὶ Λητὼ Τύχη τε καὶ Διόνυσος καὶ ἔχουσα Νίκη πτερά· τοὺς δὲ εἰργασμένους αὐτὰ οὐκ ἔχω δηλῶσαι, φαίνεται δὲ εἶναί μοι καὶ ταῦτα ἐς τὰ μάλιστα ἀρχαῖα.
There are also dedicated here Leto, Tyche, Dionysus, and a winged Nike; who made these I cannot declare, but they also seem to me to be among the most ancient.
τὰ μὲν δὴ κατειλεγμένα ἐστὶν ἐλέφαντος καὶ χρυσοῦ, χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον καὶ ἄλλα ἀνέθεσαν ἐς τὸ Ἡραῖον· Ἑρμῆν λίθου, Διόνυσον δὲ φέρει νήπιον, τέχνη δέ ἐστι Πραξιτέλους, καὶ Ἀφροδίτη χαλκῆ Κλέωνος ἔργον Σικυωνίου.
The statues catalogued are of ivory and gold, but in later times they dedicated other things to the Heraeum: a stone Hermes carrying the infant Dionysus, which is the art of Praxiteles, and a bronze Aphrodite, the work of Cleon of Sicyon.
§5.17.4τούτου δὲ ὁ διδάσκαλος τοῦ Κλέωνος, ὄνομα Ἀντιφάνης, ἐκ φοιτήσεως Περικλύτου, Πολυκλείτου δὲ ἦν τοῦ Ἀργείου μαθητὴς ὁ Περίκλυτος.
The teacher of this Cleon, named Antiphanes, was a pupil of Periclytus, and Periclytus was a disciple of Polyclitus of Argos.
παιδίον δὲ ἐπίχρυσον κάθηται γυμνὸν πρὸ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης· Βοηθὸς δὲ ἐτόρευσεν αὐτὸ Καλχηδόνιος.
A gilded naked boy sits in front of Aphrodite; Boethus of Chalcedon carved it.
μετεκομίσθη δὲ αὐτόσε καὶ ἐκ τοῦ καλουμένου Φιλιππείου, χρυσοῦ καὶ ταῦτα καὶ ἐλέφαντος, Εὐρυδίκη τε ἡ Ἀριδαίου γυνὴ καὶ Ὀλυμπιὰς ἡ Φιλίππου.
There were also transferred to that place from the so-called Philippeum, these also being of gold and ivory, Eurydice the wife of Aridaeus and Olympias the wife of Philip.
§5.17.5λάρναξ δὲ κέδρου μὲν πεποίηται, ζῴδια δὲ ἐλέφαντος ἐπʼ αὐτῆς, τὰ δὲ χρυσοῦ, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐστιν εἰργασμένα τῆς κέδρου· ἐς ταύτην τὴν λάρνακα Κύψελον τὸν Κορίνθου τυραννήσαντα ἀπέκρυψεν ἡ μήτηρ, ἡνίκα τεχθέντα ἀνευρεῖν αὐτὸν σπουδὴν ἐποιοῦντο οἱ Βακχίδαι.
The chest is made of cedar, and upon it are figures, some of ivory, some of gold, and some carved from the cedar itself; in this chest his mother hid Cypselus, who became tyrant of Corinth, when the Bacchiadae were making diligent search to find him after his birth.
τῆς μὲν δὴ σωτηρίας ἕνεκα τοῦ Κυψέλου τὸ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ γένος οἱ ὀνομαζόμενοι Κυψελίδαι τὴν λάρνακα ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἀνέθεσαν, τὰς δὲ λάρνακας οἱ τότε ἐκάλουν Κορίνθιοι κυψέλας· ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ καὶ ὄνομα Κύψελον τῷ παιδὶ θέσθαι λέγουσι.
On account of the escape of Cypselus, his descendants, called Cypselidae, dedicated the chest at Olympia; and the Corinthians of that time called chests "cypselae," from which they say they also gave the name Cypselus to the child.
§5.17.6τῶν δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ λάρνακι ἐπιγράμματα ἔπεστι τοῖς πλείοσι, γράμμασι τοῖς ἀρχαίοις γεγραμμένα· καὶ τὰ μὲν ἐς εὐθὺ αὐτῶν ἔχει, σχήματα δὲ ἄλλα τῶν γραμμάτων βουστροφηδὸν καλοῦσιν Ἕλληνες.
On most of the figures upon the chest there are inscriptions, written in ancient characters; and some of them run straight, while other arrangements of the letters the Greeks call boustrophedon.
τὸ δέ ἐστι τοιόνδε· ἀπὸ τοῦ πέρατος τοῦ ἔπους ἐπιστρέφει τῶν ἐπῶν τὸ δεύτερον ὥσπερ ἐν διαύλου δρόμῳ.
It is of this kind: from the end of the verse the second of the verses turns back, just as in the double race-course.
γέγραπται δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ λάρνακι καὶ ἄλλως τὰ ἐπιγράμματα ἑλιγμοῖς συμβαλέσθαι χαλεποῖς.
The inscriptions on the chest are also written in other ways, with winding patterns difficult to decipher.
ἀρξαμένῳ δὲ ἀνασκοπεῖσθαι κάτωθεν τοσάδε ἐπὶ τῆς λάρνακος ἡ πρώτη παρέχεται χώρα.
To one who begins to examine it from below, the first space on the chest presents the following.