§6.12.1πλησίον δὲ ἅρμα τέ ἐστι χαλκοῦν καὶ ἀνὴρ ἀναβεβηκὼς ἐπʼ αὐτό, κέλητες δὲ ἵπποι παρὰ τὸ ἅρμα εἷς ἑκατέρωθεν ἕστηκε καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἵππων καθέζονται παῖδες·
Near this is a bronze chariot and a man mounted upon it, and beside the chariot stand race-horses, one on each side, and boys are seated upon the horses.
ὑπομνήματα δὲ ἐπὶ νίκαις Ὀλυμπικαῖς ἐστιν Ἱέρωνος τοῦ Δεινομένους τυραννήσαντος Συρακουσίων μετὰ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Γέλωνα.
These are memorials of the Olympic victories of Hieron, the son of Deinomenes, who was tyrant of Syracuse after his brother Gelo.
τὰ δὲ ἀναθήματα οὐχ Ἱέρων ἀπέστειλεν, ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν ἀποδοὺς τῷ θεῷ Δεινομένης ἐστὶν ὁ Ἱέρωνος, ἔργα δὲ τὸ μὲν Ὀνάτα τοῦ Αἰγινήτου τὸ ἅρμα, Καλάμιδος δὲ οἱ ἵπποι τε οἱ ἑκατέρωθεν καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτῶν εἰσιν οἱ παῖδες.
But Hieron did not send the dedications; rather, the one who paid the vow to the god was Deinomenes, the son of Hieron, and as for the works, the chariot is by Onatas of Aegina, but the horses on each side and the boys upon them are by Calamis.
§6.12.2παρὰ δὲ τοῦ Ἱέρωνος τὸ ἅρμα ἀνήρ ἐστιν ὁμώνυμός τε τῷ Δεινομένους καὶ ἐν Συρακούσαις καὶ οὗτος τυραννήσας, Ἱέρων δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἱεροκλέους·
¦0 Beside the chariot of Hieron stands a man homonymous with the son of Deinomenes, who also ruled as tyrant in Syracuse; he was called Hieron, the son of Hierocles.
μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἀγαθοκλέους τοῦ πρότερον τυραννήσαντος τελευτὴν Συρακουσίοις αὖθις ἀναπεφύκει τύραννος ὁ Ἱέρων οὗτος, τὴν δὲ ἀρχὴν εἶχεν ἔτει δευτέρῳ τῆς ἕκτης Ὀλυμπιάδος ἐπὶ ταῖς εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν, ἣν Κυρηναῖος στάδιον ἐνίκησεν Ἰδαῖος.
After the death of Agathocles, who had previously been tyrant, this Hieron arose again as tyrant for the Syracusans, and he held office in the second year of the hundred and twenty-sixth Olympiad, in which Idaius of Cyrene won the stadium race.
§6.12.3οὗτος ὁ Ἱέρων ξενίαν πρὸς Πύρρον τὸν Αἰακίδου καὶ ὁμοῦ τῇ ξενίᾳ καὶ ἐπιγαμίαν ἐποιήσατο, Γέλωνι τῷ παιδὶ Νηρηίδα ἀγαγόμενος τὴν Πύρρου.
This Hieron established friendship with Pyrrhus, the son of Aeacides, and along with friendship, also an alliance by marriage, taking Nereis, the daughter of Pyrrhus, for his son Gelo.
Ῥωμαίων δὲ περὶ Σικελίας ἐς τὴν πρὸς Καρχηδονίους πόλεμον καταστάντων εἶχον μὲν οἱ Καρχηδόνιοι τῆς νήσου πλέον ἢ ἥμισυ, Ἱέρωνι δὲ συνιόντων μὲν ἄρτι ἐς τὸν πόλεμον ἑλέσθαι τὰ Καρχηδονίων ἤρεσε, μετὰ δὲ οὐ πολὺ δυνάμει τε εἶναι νομίζων τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐχυρώτερα καὶ βεβαιότερα ἅμα ἐς φιλίαν μετεβάλετο ὡς τούτους.
When the Romans entered into war with the Carthaginians over Sicily, the Carthaginians held more than half of the island, and at the very beginning of their coming into the war, Hieron favored choosing the side of the Carthaginians, but not long afterwards, believing that the power of the Romans was stronger and at the same time more secure, he changed over to friendship with them.
§6.12.4τοῦ δέ οἱ βίου συνέβη γενέσθαι τὴν τελευτὴν ὑπὸ Δεινομένους, γένος μὲν Συρακουσίου, δυσμενέστατα δὲ ἀνδρὸς ἐς τυραννίδα ἔχοντος, ὃς καὶ ὕστερον τούτων Ἱπποκράτει τῷ ἀδελφῷ τῷ Ἐπικύδους ἐξ Ἐρβησσοῦ παρεληλυθότι ἄρτι ἐς Συρακούσας καὶ ἐς τὸ πλῆθος ποιεῖσθαι λόγους ἀρχομένῳ ἐπέδραμεν ὡς ἀποκτενῶν τὸν Ἱπποκράτην·
But it happened that his life was ended by Deinomenes, a man of Syracusan descent who was most hostile to tyranny.
τοῦ δέ οἱ ἀντιστάντος, κρατήσαντες τῶν δορυφόρων ἄλλοι διαφθείρουσι τὸν Δεινομένην.
This man, even after these events, rushed upon Hippocrates, the brother of Epicydes, who had just come from Herbessus to Syracuse and was beginning to address the multitude, with the intention of killing Hippocrates; but when Hippocrates resisted him, others who had overpowered his bodyguards killed Deinomenes.
τοὺς ἀνδριάντας δὲ τοῦ Ἱέρωνος ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ, ἐφʼ ἵππου τὸν ἕτερον, τὸν δὲ αὐτῶν πεζόν, ἀνέθεσαν μὲν τοῦ Ἱέρωνος οἱ παῖδες, ἐποίησε δὲ Μίκων Νικηράτου Συρακούσιος.
As for the statues of Hieron in Olympia, one on horseback and the other on foot, his children dedicated them, and Micon the son of Niceratus, a Syracusan, made them.
§6.12.5μετὰ δὲ τοῦ Ἱέρωνος τὰς εἰκόνας Ἀρεὺς ὁ Ἀκροτάτου Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεὺς καὶ Ἄρατος ἕστηκεν ὁ Κλεινίου, καὶ αὖθις ἀναβεβηκώς ἐστιν Ἀρεὺς ἵππον.
After the images of Hieron stand Areus, the son of Acrotatus, king of the Lacedaemonians, and Aratus, the son of Cleinias, and again Areus is mounted upon a horse.
ἀνάθημα δὲ ὁ μὲν Κορινθίων ὁ Ἄρατος, Ἀρεὺς δὲ Ἠλείων ἐστί· καί μοι τοῦ λόγου τὰ πρότερα οὔτε τῶν ἐς Ἄρατον οὔτε τῶν ἐς Ἀρέα ἀμνημόνως ἔσχεν, Ἄρατος δὲ καὶ ἅρματι ἀνηγορεύθη νικῶν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ.
Aratus is a dedication of the Corinthians, but Areus is of the Eleans; and the earlier parts of my narrative did not fail to mention the things concerning Aratus or those concerning Areus, and Aratus was also proclaimed victor with a chariot in Olympia.
§6.12.6Τίμωνι δὲ τῷ Αἰσύπου καθέντι ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἵππους ἀνδρὶ Ἠλείῳ ἐστι τοῦτο χαλκοῦν, ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἀναβέβηκε παρθένος, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν Νίκη.
For Timon, the son of Aesypus, an Elean who sent horses to Olympia, there is this bronze monument, and a maiden is mounted upon it, in my opinion, Victory.
Κάλλωνα δὲ τὸν Ἁρμοδίου καὶ τὸν Μοσχίωνος Ἱππόμαχον, γένος τε Ἠλείους καὶ πυγμῇ κρατήσαντας ἐν παισί, τὸν μὲν αὐτῶν ἐποίησε Δάιππος, Ἱππομάχου δὲ ὅστις μὲν τὸν ἀνδριάντα εἰργάσατο οὐκ ἴσμεν, καταμαχέσασθαι δὲ τρεῖς φασιν ἀνταγωνιστὰς αὐτὸν οὔτε πληγὴν ἀποδεξάμενον οὔτε τι τρωθέντα τοῦ σώματος.
As for Callon, the son of Harmodius, and Hippomachus, the son of Moschion, both of Elean descent who conquered in the boys' boxing, Daippus made the statue of one of them, but as for Hippomachus, we do not know who made his statue, but they say that he defeated three opponents without receiving a blow or being at all wounded in his body.
§6.12.7Θεόχρηστον δὲ Κυρηναῖον ἱπποτροφήσαντα κατὰ τὸ ἐπιχώριον τοῖς Λίβυσι καὶ αὐτόν τε ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ ἔτι πρότερον τὸν ὁμώνυμόν τε αὐτῷ καὶ τοῦ πατρὸς πατέρα, τούτους μὲν ἐνταῦθα ἵππων νίκας, ἐν δὲ Ἰσθμῷ τοῦ Θεοχρήστου λαβεῖν τὸν πατέρα, τὸ ἐπίγραμμα δηλοῖ τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ ἅρματι.
That Theochrestus of Cyrene, who bred horses according to the local custom of the Libyans, and he himself at Olympia, and even earlier his namesake and grandfather, won horse victories here, and that the father of Theochrestus won at the Isthmus, is shown by the inscription on the chariot.
§6.12.8Ἀγήσαρχον δὲ τὸν Αἱμοστράτου Τριταιέα κρατῆσαι μὲν πύκτας ἄνδρας ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ Νεμέᾳ τε καὶ Πυθοῖ καὶ ἐν Ἰσθμῷ μαρτυρεῖ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον, Ἀρκάδας δὲ τοὺς Τριταιεῖς εἶναι τοῦ ἐλεγείου λέγοντος οὐκ ἀληθεύοντα εὕρισκον.
That Agesarchus, the son of Haemostratus, from Tritaia, conquered in the men's boxing at Olympia, and at Nemea, Pytho, and the Isthmus, is witnessed by the elegiac inscription; but when the elegiac inscription says that the Tritaians are Arcadians, I found it not speaking the truth.
πόλεων γὰρ τῶν ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ ταῖς μὲν ἐπειλημμέναις δόξης οὐδὲ τὰ ἐς τοὺς οἰκιστάς ἐστιν ἄγνωστα, τὰς δὲ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τε ὑπὸ ἀσθενείας ἀφανεστέρας καὶ διʼ αὐτὸ ἀνοικισθείσας ἐς Μεγάλην πόλιν, οὐ περιέχει σφᾶς γενόμενον τότε ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀρκάδων κοινοῦ δόγμα;
For of the cities in Arcadia, those that have acquired fame, even the facts concerning their founders are not unknown, while those which from the beginning were obscure because of weakness and for that very reason were combined into Megalopolis, are they not included in the decree made at that time by the Arcadian League?
§6.12.9οὐδέ τινα ἔστιν ἐν Ἕλλησι Τρίτειαν πόλιν ἄλλην γε ἢ τὴν Ἀχαιῶν εὑρεῖν.
Nor is it possible to find among the Greeks any other city named Tritaia than that of the Achaeans.
τηνικαῦτα γοῦν ἐς Ἀρκάδας ἡγοῖτο ἄν τις συντελέσαι τοὺς Τριταιεῖς, καθὰ καὶ νῦν ἔτι Ἀρκάδων αὐτῶν εἰσιν οἱ ἐς τὸ Ἀργολικὸν τελοῦντες.
At that time, indeed, one might suppose that the Tritaians contributed to the Arcadians, just as even now there are some of the Arcadians themselves who contribute to the Argolic League.
τοῦ Ἀγησάρχου δέ ἐστιν ἡ εἰκὼν τέχνη τῶν Πολυκλέους παίδων.
The image of Agesarchus is the work of the children of Polycles.
τούτων μὲν δὴ ποιησόμεθα μνήμην καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὑστέροις τοῦ λόγου·
Of these we shall make mention also in the later parts of our narrative.