§6.13.1Ἀστύλος δὲ Κροτωνιάτης Πυθαγόρου μέν ἐστιν ἔργον, τρεῖς δὲ ἐφεξῆς Ὀλυμπίασι σταδίου τε καὶ διαύλου νίκας ἔσχεν.
Astylus of Croton is the work of Pythagoras, and he won three consecutive victories at Olympia in the stadium and the double course.
ὅτι δὲ ἐν δύο ταῖς ὑστέραις ἐς χάριν τὴν Ἱέρωνος τοῦ Δεινομένους ἀνηγόρευσεν αὑτὸν Συρακούσιον, τούτων ἕνεκα οἱ Κροτωνιᾶται τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ δεσμωτήριον εἷναι κατέγνωσαν καὶ τὴν εἰκόνα καθεῖλον παρὰ τῇ Ἥρᾳ τῇ Λακινίᾳ κειμένην.
But because in the last two victories he proclaimed himself a Syracusan to curry favor with Hieron, the son of Deinomenes, for this reason the Crotoniates condemned his house to be a prison and pulled down his statue which was dedicated at the sanctuary of Hera Lacinia.
§6.13.2ἀνάκειται δὲ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ στήλη λέγουσα τοῦ Λακεδαιμονίου Χιόνιδος τὰς νίκας.
There is also dedicated at Olympia a stele telling of the victories of Chionis the Lacedaemonian.
εὐηθείας μὲν δὴ μετέχουσι καὶ ὅσοι Χίονιν αὐτὸν ἀναθεῖναι τὴν στήλην, ἀλλʼ οὐ Λακεδαιμονίων ἥγηνται τὸ δημόσιον·
Those who believe that Chionis himself dedicated the stele, and that it was not the commonwealth of the Lacedaemonians, are indeed partakers of simplicity.
ἔστω γὰρ δήπου, ὡς ἐν τῇ στήλῃ, οὐκ εἶναί πω τοῦ ὅπλου τὸν δρόμον· πῶς ἂν οὖν ἐπίσταιτο ὁ Χίονις εἰ αὖθίς ποτε προσνομοθετήσουσιν Ἠλεῖοι;
For let it be assumed, indeed, as it is on the stele, that the race in armor did not yet exist; how then could Chionis know if the Eleans would at some future time add this to the laws?
τούτων δὲ ἔτι ἐς πλέον ἥκουσιν εὐηθείας οἳ τὸν ἑστηκότα ἀνδριάντα παρὰ τῇ στήλῃ φασὶν εἰκόνα εἶναι Χιόνιδος, ἔργον ὄντα τοῦ Ἀθηναίου Μύρωνος.
But those who say that the standing statue beside the stele is an image of Chionis, being the work of Myron the Athenian, have reached an even greater degree of simplicity than these.
§6.13.3ἐοικότα δὲ Χιόνιδι τὰ ἐς δόξαν καὶ ἀνὴρ Λύκιος παρέσχετο Ἑρμογένης Ξάνθιος, ὃς τὸν κότινον ἐν τρισὶν Ὀλυμπιάσιν ἀνείλετο ὀκτάκις ἐπίκλησίν τε ἔσχεν Ἵππος ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων·
A Lycian man, Hermogenes of Xanthus, also achieved success in glory comparable to Chionis; he carried off the wild olive crown eight times in three Olympiads and was called "Horse" by the Greeks.
ποιήσαιο δʼ ἂν καὶ Πολίτην ἐν μεγάλῳ θαύματι.
You would also hold Polites in great admiration.
ὁ Πολίτης δʼ ἦν οὗτος ἐκ Κεράμου τῆς ἐν τῇ Καρίᾳ, ἀνέφηνε δὲ ἀρετὴν ποδῶν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ πᾶσαν·
This Polites was from Ceramus in Caria, and he displayed every kind of excellence of feet at Olympia.
ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ μηκίστου καὶ διαρκεστάτου διʼ ὀλιγίστου δὴ καιροῦ μεθηρμόσατο ἐπὶ τὸ βραχύτατον ὁμοῦ καὶ ὤκιστον, καὶ δολίχου τε ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τῇ αὐτῇ καὶ παραυτίκα σταδίου λαβὼν νίκην προσέθηκε διαύλου σφίσι τὴν τρίτην.
For from the longest and most enduring race, in a very short time indeed, he adapted himself to the shortest and swiftest, and having won the long race and immediately afterwards the stadium on the same day, he added the double course as a third victory for them.
§6.13.4Πολίτης μὲν δὴ ἐπὶ τῆς δευτέρας καὶ τέσσαρας, ὡς ἂν ἕκαστοι συνταχθῶσιν ὑπὸ τοῦ κλήρου, καὶ οὐκ ἀθρόους ἀφιᾶσιν ἐς τὸν δρόμον· οἳ δʼ ἂν ἐν ἑκάστῃ τάξει κρατήσωσιν, ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν αὖθις θέουσι τῶν ἄθλων· καὶ οὕτω σταδίου δύο ὁ στεφανούμενος ἀναιρήσεται νίκας.
As for Polites [...] they are grouped by fours, according as each is drawn by lot, and they do not let them all start the race at once; but those who win in each group run again for the prizes; and thus the one who is crowned will carry off two victories for the stadium.
τὰ μέντοι ἐπιφανέστατα ἐς δρόμον Λεωνίδᾳ Ῥοδίῳ ἐστίν·
However, the most famous achievements in running belong to Leonidas of Rhodes.
ἐπὶ γὰρ τέσσαρας Ὀλυμπιάδας ἀκμάζων τε τῇ ὠκύτητι ἀντήρκεσε, καὶ γεγόνασιν αὐτῷ δρόμου νῖκαι δύο ἀριθμὸν καὶ δέκα.
For during four Olympiads he maintained the peak of his speed, and he won twelve victories in the races in total.
§6.13.5Χιόνιδος δὲ οὐ πόρρω τῆς ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ στήλης Σκαῖος ἕστηκεν ὁ Δούριος Σάμιος, κρατήσας πυγμῇ παῖδας· τέχνη δὲ ἡ εἰκών ἐστι μὲν Ἱππίου τοῦ, τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα δηλοῖ τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ, νικῆσαι Σκαῖον ἡνίκα ὁ Σαμίων δῆμος ἔφευγεν ἐκ τῆς νήσου, τὸν δὲ καιρὸν ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα τὸν δῆμον.
Not far from the stele of Chionis at Olympia stands Scaeus, the son of Duris, a Samian, who won in the boys' boxing; the statue is the work of Hippias, the son of [...], and the inscription upon it indicates that Scaeus conquered when the Samian democracy was in exile from the island, and that the occasion was when [they brought] the democracy back to their own land.
§6.13.6παρὰ δὲ τὸν τύραννον Δίαλλος ὁ Πόλλιδος ἀνάκειται, γένος μὲν Σμυρναῖος, Ἰώνων δὲ πρῶτος λαβεῖν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ φησὶν οὗτος ὁ Δίαλλος παγκρατίου στέφανον ἐν παισίν.
Beside the tyrant is dedicated Diallus, the son of Pollis, of Smyrnaeon descent, and this Diallus says that he was the first of the Ionians to win the crown of the boys' pancratium at Olympia.
Θερσίλοχον δὲ Κορκυραῖον καὶ Ἀριστίωνα Θεοφίλους Ἐπιδαύριον, τὸν μὲν ἀνδρῶν πυγμῆς, Θερσίλοχον δὲ λαβόντα ἐν παισὶ στέφανον, Πολύκλειτος ἐποίησε σφᾶς ὁ Ἀργεῖος.
As for Thersilochus of Corcyra and Aristion, the son of Theophilus, of Epidaurus, the latter winning in the men's boxing, and Thersilochus in the boys', Polycleitus of Argos made their statues.
§6.13.7Βύκελος δέ, ὃς Σικυωνίων πρῶτος πὺξ ἐκράτησεν ἐν παισίν, ἔστιν ἔργον Σικυωνίου Κανάχου παρὰ τῷ Ἀργείῳ Πολυκλείτῳ διδαχθέντος.
Bycelus, who was the first Sicyonian to win in the boys' boxing, is the work of Canachus of Sicyon, who was a pupil of Polycleitus of Argos.
παρὰ δὲ τὸν Βύκελον ὁπλίτης ἀνὴρ ἐπίκλησιν Λίβυς Μνασέας Κυρηναῖος ἕστηκε· Πυθαγόρας δὲ ὁ Ῥηγῖνος ἐποίησε τὴν εἰκόνα.
Beside Bycelus stands a man in armor nicknamed "the Libyan," Mnaseas of Cyrene; Pythagoras of Rhegium made his statue.
Κυζικηνῷ δὲ Ἀγεμάχῳ τῶν ἐκ τῆς Ἀσιανῆς ἠπείρου γενέσθαι ἐν Ἄργει τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ μηνύει.
As for Agemachus of Cyzicus, the inscription upon him indicates that he was [a boxer] from the Asian continent, and [that the statue] was made in Argos.
§6.13.8Νάξου δὲ οἰκισθείσης ποτὲ ἐν Σικελίᾳ ὑπὸ Χαλκιδέων τῶν ἐπὶ Εὐρίπῳ, τῆς πόλεως μὲν οὐδὲ ἐρείπια ἐλείπετο ἐς ἡμᾶς ἔτι, ὄνομα δὲ καὶ ἐς τοὺς ἔπειτα εἶναι τῆς Νάξου Τίσανδρος ὁ Κλεοκρίτου μάλιστα αἰτίαν ἐχέτω·
Though Naxos, once founded in Sicily by the Chalcidians from the Euripus, has not even ruins left to our time, let Tisandrus, the son of Cleocritus, have the chief credit that the name of Naxos still exists for posterity.
τετράκις γὰρ δὴ ἐν ἀνδράσι κατεμαχέσατο ὁ Τίσανδρος πύκτας ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ, τοσαῦται δὲ καὶ Πυθοῖ γεγόνασιν αὐτῷ νῖκαι, Κορινθίοις δὲ οὐκ ἦν πω τηνικαῦτα οὐδὲ Ἀργείοις ἐς ἅπαντας ὑπομνήματα τοὺς Νέμεια καὶ Ἴσθμια νικήσαντας.
For Tisandrus defeated boxers four times in the men's class at Olympia, and he had as many victories at Pytho; and at that time neither the Corinthians nor the Argives had public records of all those who had conquered at the Nemean and Isthmian games.
§6.13.9ἡ δὲ ἵππος ἡ τοῦ Κορινθίου Φειδώλα ὄνομα μέν, ὡς οἱ Κορίνθιοι μνημονεύουσιν, ἔχει Αὔρα, τὸν δὲ ἀναβάτην ἔτι ἀρχομένου τοῦ δρόμου συνέπεσεν ἀποβαλεῖν αὐτήν·
The mare of Phidolas the Corinthian had the name, as the Corinthians remember, of Aura, but it happened that she threw her rider at the very beginning of the race.
καὶ οὐδέν τι ἧσσον θέουσα ἐν κόσμῳ περί τε τὴν νύσσαν ἐπέστρεφε, καὶ ἐπεὶ τῆς σάλπιγγος ἤκουσεν, ἐπετάχυνεν ἐς πλέον τὸν δρόμον, φθάνει τε δὴ ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἑλλανοδίκας ἀφικομένη καὶ νικῶσα ἔγνω καὶ παύεται τοῦ δρόμου.
Nevertheless, running in good order, she turned around the turning-post, and when she heard the trumpet, she quickened her pace further, and reaching the Hellanodicae first, she knew she had won and stopped running.
Ἠλεῖοι δὲ ἀνηγόρευσαν ἐπὶ τῇ νίκῃ τὸν Φειδώλαν καὶ ἀναθεῖναί οἱ τὴν ἵππον ταύτην ἐφιᾶσιν.
The Eleans proclaimed Phidolas victor and permitted him to dedicate this mare.
§6.13.10ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ τοῦ Φειδώλα τοῖς παισὶν ἐπὶ κέλητι ἵππῳ νίκη, καὶ ὅ τε ἵππος ἐπὶ στήλῃ πεποιημένος καὶ ἐπίγραμμά ἐστιν ἐπʼ αὐτῷ· "
ὠκυδρόμας Λύκος Ἴσθμιʼ ἅπαξ, δύο δʼ ἐνθάδε νίκαις
Φειδώλα παίδων ἐστεφάνωσε δόμους. "
οὐ μὴν τῷ γε ἐπιγράμματι καὶ τὰ Ἠλείων ἐς τοὺς Ὀλυμπιονίκας ὁμολογεῖ γράμματα· ὀγδόῃ γὰρ Ὀλυμπιάδι καὶ ἑξηκοστῇ καὶ οὐ πέρα ταύτης ἐστὶν ἐν τοῖς Ἠλείων γράμμασιν ἡ νίκη τῶν Φειδώλα παίδων·
The sons of Phidolas also won a victory with a race-horse, and the horse is represented on a stele, and there is an inscription upon it: "The swift-running Lycus once at the Isthmus, and with two victories here, crowned the house of the sons of Phidolas." However, the inscription does not agree with the Elean records concerning the Olympic victors; for in the Elean records the victory of the sons of Phidolas is in the sixty-eighth Olympiad, and not beyond this.
§6.13.11ταῦτα μὲν δὴ οὕτως ἔχοντα ἴστω τις·
Let anyone know these things to be so.
Ἠλείοις δὲ ἀνδράσιν Ἀγαθίνῳ τε τῷ Θρασυβούλου καὶ Τηλεμάχῳ, Τηλεμάχῳ μὲν ἐπὶ ἵππων νίκῃ γέγονεν ἡ εἰκών, Ἀγαθῖνον δὲ ἀνέθεσαν Ἀχαιοὶ Πελληνεῖς.
As for the Elean men, Agathinus, the son of Thrasybulus, and Telemachus, the statue of Telemachus was for a victory with horses, while the Achaeans of Pellene dedicated Agathinus.
ἀνέθηκε δὲ καὶ ὁ Ἀθηναίων δῆμος Ἀριστοφῶντα Λυσίνου, παγκρατιαστὰς ἐν τῷ ἀγῶνι τῷ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ κρατήσαντα ἄνδρας.
The Athenian democracy also dedicated Aristophon, the son of Lysinus, who conquered in the men's pancratium at the Olympic games.