§6.15.1Ἀρχίππῳ δὲ Μιτυληναίῳ τοὺς ἐς τὴν πυγμὴν ἐσελθόντας κρατήσαντι ἄνδρας ἄλλο τοιόνδε προσποιοῦσιν οἱ Μιτυληναῖοι ἐς δόξαν, ὡς καὶ τὸν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ Πυθοῖ καὶ Νεμέᾳ καὶ Ἰσθμῷ λάβοι στέφανον ἡλικίαν οὐ πρόσω γεγονὼς ἐτῶν εἴκοσι.
To Archippus of Mytilene, who conquered the men who entered the boxing, the Mytileneans attribute another such thing for his glory: namely, that he won the crown at Olympia, Pytho, Nemea, and the Isthmus when he was not far advanced in age from twenty years.
τὸν δὲ παῖδα σταδιοδρόμον Ξένωνα Καλλιτέλους ἐν Λεπρέου τοῦ ἐν τῇ Τριφυλίᾳ Πυριλάμπης Μεσσήνιος, Κλεινόμαχον δὲ Ἠλεῖον ὅστις ὁ ποιήσας ἐστὶν οὐκ ἴσμεν· ἀνηγορεύθη δὲ ὁ Κλεινόμαχος ἐπὶ νίκῃ πεντάθλου.
As for the boy stade-runner Xenon, son of Calliteles, from Lepreus in Triphylia, Pyrilampes of Messene made his statue; but Cleinomachus the Elean, we do not know who the maker is; Cleinomachus was proclaimed for a victory in the pentathlon.
§6.15.2Παντάρκην δὲ Ἠλεῖον Ἀχαιῶν ἀνάθημα εἶναι τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ φησιν· εἰρήνην τε γὰρ Ἀχαιοῖς ποιῆσαι καὶ Ἠλείοις αὐτόν, καὶ ὅσοι παρʼ ἀμφοτέρων πολεμούντων ἑαλώκεσαν, ἄφεσιν καὶ τούτοις γενέσθαι διʼ αὐτόν.
As for Pantarces the Elean, the inscription upon his statue says that it is a dedication of the Achaeans; for he made peace between the Achaeans and the Eleans, and through him those who had been captured on both sides while they were at war obtained their release.
οὗτος ἀνείλετο καὶ κέλητι ἵππῳ νίκην ὁ Παντάρκης, καί οἱ καὶ τῆς νίκης ὑπόμνημά ἐστιν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ.
This Pantarces also won a victory with a race-horse, and there is a memorial of his victory at Olympia.
Ὀλίδαν δὲ ἀνέθηκεν Ἠλεῖον τὸ ἔθνος τὸ Αἰτωλῶν, Χαρῖνος δὲ Ἠλεῖος ἐπὶ διαύλου τε ἀνάκειται καὶ ὅπλου νίκῃ· παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν Ἀγέλης Χῖος κρατήσας πυγμῇ παῖδας, Θεομνήστου Σαρδιανοῦ τέχνη.
Olidas the Elean was dedicated by the ethnic league of the Aetolians, and Charinus the Elean is dedicated for victories in both the double-stade and the race in armor; beside him is Ageles of Chios, who conquered in the boys' boxing, the work of Theomnestus of Sardis.
§6.15.3Κλειτομάχου δὲ Θηβαίου τὴν μὲν εἰκόνα ἀνέθηκεν Ἑρμοκράτης ὁ Κλειτομάχου πατήρ, τὰ δὲ οἱ ἐς δόξαν ἦν τοιάδε.
As for Cleitomachus of Thebes, Hermocrates, the father of Cleitomachus, dedicated his statue, and the things for his glory were as follows.
ἐν Ἰσθμῷ παλαιστὰς κατεπάλαισεν ἄνδρας καὶ ἐπὶ ἡμέρας τῆς αὐτῆς τούς τε ἐς τὴν πυγμὴν καὶ τοὺς ἐς τὸ παγκράτιον ἐσελθόντας ἐκράτει τῇ μάχῃ· αἱ δὲ Πυθοῖ νῖκαι παγκρατίου μέν εἰσιν αὐτῷ πᾶσαι, τρεῖς δὲ ἀριθμόν· ἐν δὲ Ὀλυμπίᾳ δεύτερος ὁ Κλειτόμαχος οὗτος μετὰ τὸν Θάσιον Θεαγένην ἐπὶ παγκρατίῳ τε ἀνηγορεύθη καὶ πυγμῇ.
At the Isthmus he wrestled down the men wrestlers, and on the same day he conquered in battle those who entered both the boxing and the pancratium; and his victories at Pytho are all in the pancratium, three in number; at Olympia, this Cleitomachus was proclaimed, second after Theagenes of Thasos, for both the pancratium and boxing.
§6.15.4παγκρατίου μὲν οὖν μιᾷ πρὸς ταῖς τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν Ὀλυμπιάσιν ἔφθανεν ἀνῃρημένος νίκην· ἡ δὲ Ὀλυμπιὰς ἡ ἐφεξῆς εἶχε μὲν τὸν Κλειτόμαχον τοῦτον παγκρατίου καὶ πυγμῆς ἀγωνιστήν, εἶχε δὲ καὶ Ἠλεῖον Κάπρον ἐπὶ ἡμέρας τῆς αὐτῆς παλαῖσαί τε ὁμοῦ καὶ παγκρατιάσαι προθυμούμενον.
Now, in the pancratium, he had already won the victory in the hundred and forty-first Olympiad; but the following Olympiad had this Cleitomachus as a competitor in both the pancratium and boxing, and it also had Caprus the Elean, who was eager on the same day to both wrestle and contend in the pancratium.
§6.15.5γεγονυίας δὲ ἤδη τῷ Κάπρῳ νίκης ἐπὶ τῇ πάλῃ, ἀνεδίδασκεν ὁ Κλειτόμαχος τοὺς Ἑλλανοδίκας γενήσεσθαι σὺν τῷ δικαίῳ σφίσιν, εἰ τὸ παγκράτιον ἐσκαλέσαιντο πρὶν ἢ πυκτεύσαντα αὐτὸν λαβεῖν τραύματα·
Since Caprus had already achieved a victory in the wrestling, Cleitomachus explained to the Hellanodikai that it would be in accordance with justice for them if they should call the pancratium before he received wounds from boxing.
λέγει τε δὴ εἰκότα καὶ οὕτως ἐσκληθέντος τοῦ παγκρατίου κρατηθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ Κάπρου ὅμως ἐχρήσατο ἐς τοὺς πύκτας θυμῷ τε ἐρρωμένῳ καὶ ἀκμῆτι τῷ σώματι.
He spoke what was reasonable, and the pancratium being thus called, though he was defeated by Caprus, he nevertheless faced the boxers with a vigorous spirit and an unwearied body.
§6.15.6Ἐρυθραῖοι δὲ οἱ Ἴωνες Ἐπιθέρσην τὸν Μητροδώρου, δύο μὲν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ πυγμῆς, δὶς δὲ Πυθοῖ νίκας καὶ ἐν Νεμέᾳ τε καὶ ἐν Ἰσθμῷ λαβόντα, οὗτοι μὲν τὸν Ἐπιθέρσην τοῦτον, Συρακούσιοι δὲ δύο μὲν Ἱέρωνος εἰκόνας τὸ δημόσιον, τρίτην δὲ ἀνέθεσαν οἱ τοῦ Ἱέρωνος παῖδες·
The Erythraeans of Ionia dedicated Epitherses, son of Metrodorus, who won two boxing victories at Olympia, twice at Pytho, and also at Nemea and the Isthmus. While they dedicated this Epitherses, the Syracusans dedicated two statues of Hieron as a public gift, and a third was dedicated by the children of Hieron.
ἐδήλωσα δὲ ὀλίγῳ τι πρότερον ὡς ὁμώνυμός τε τῷ Δεινομένους ὁ Ἱέρων οὗτος καὶ Συρακουσῶν εἴη κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐκείνῳ τύραννος.
I declared a little earlier that this Hieron was homonymous with the son of Deinomenes and was likewise tyrant of Syracuse.
§6.15.7ἀνέθεσαν δὲ καὶ Ἠλεῖον ἄνδρα Τιμόπτολιν Λάμπιδος Παλεῖς, ἡ τετάρτη Κεφαλλήνων μοῖρα· οὗτοι δὲ οἱ Παλεῖς ἐκαλοῦντο Δουλιχιεῖς τὰ ἀρχαιότερα.
And the Paleans, the fourth part of the Cephallenians, dedicated a man of Elis, Timoptolis, son of Lampis; these Paleans were called Dulichians in more ancient times.
ἀνάκειται δὲ καὶ Ἀρχίδαμος ὁ Ἀγησιλάου καὶ ἀνὴρ ὅστις δὴ θηρεύοντος παρεχόμενος σχῆμα.
There is also dedicated Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, and a man, whoever he may be, presenting the appearance of a man hunting.
Δημήτριον δὲ τὸν ἐλάσαντα ἐπὶ Σέλευκον στρατιᾷ καὶ ἁλόντα ἐν τῇ μάχῃ καὶ τοῦ Δημητρίου τὸν παῖδα Ἀντίγονον ἀναθήματα ἴστω τις Βυζαντίων ὄντας.
As for Demetrius, who led an army against Seleucus and was captured in the battle, and Antigonus, the son of Demetrius, let one know that they are dedications of the Byzantines.
§6.15.8Σπαρτιάτῃ δὲ Εὐτελίδᾳ γεγόνασιν ἐν παισὶ νῖκαι δύο ἐπὶ τῆς ὀγδόης καὶ τριακοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος πάλης, ἡ δὲ ἑτέρα πεντάθλου· πρῶτον γὰρ δὴ τότε οἱ παῖδες καὶ ὕστατον πενταθλήσοντες ἐσεκλήθησαν·
To Eutelidas the Spartan came two victories in the boys' class in the thirty-eighth Olympiad: one in wrestling, the other in the pentathlon; for then for the first and last time the boys were called to compete in the pentathlon.
ἔστι δὲ ἥ τε εἰκὼν ἀρχαία τοῦ Εὐτελίδα, καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῷ βάθρῳ γράμματα ἀμυδρὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ χρόνου.
The statue of Eutelidas is ancient, and the letters on the pedestal are dim with time.
§6.15.9μετὰ δὲ τὸν Εὐτελίδαν Ἀρεύς τε αὖθις ὁ Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεὺς καὶ Ἠλεῖος παρʼ αὐτὸν ἀνάκειται Γόργος.
After Eutelidas, there is dedicated next Areus, the king of the Lacedaemonians, and beside him Gorgus of Elis.
μόνῳ δὲ ἀνθρώπων ἄχρι ἐμοῦ τῷ Γόργῳ τέσσαρες μὲν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ γεγόνασιν ἐπὶ πεντάθλῳ, διαύλου δὲ καὶ ὅπλου μία ἐφʼ ἑκατέρῳ νίκη.
To Gorgus alone of men down to my time have there been four victories at Olympia in the pentathlon, and one victory each in the double-stade and the race in armor.
§6.15.10ὅτῳ δὲ παρεστήκασιν οἱ παῖδες, τοῦτον μὲν Πτολεμαῖον τὸν Λάγου φασὶν εἶναι· παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν ἀνδριάντες δύο ἀνδρός εἰσιν Ἠλείου Κάπρου τοῦ Πυθαγόρου, πάλης τε εἰληφότος καὶ παγκρατίου στέφανον ἐπὶ ἡμέρας τῆς αὐτῆς· πρώτῳ δὲ γεγόνασιν ἀνθρώπων αἱ δύο νῖκαι τῷ Κάπρῳ τούτῳ.
The one beside whom the boys stand, they say is Ptolemy, the son of Lagus; beside him are two statues of an Elean man, Caprus, the son of Pythagoras, who won the crown in both wrestling and the pancratium on the same day; to this Caprus, first of men, came these two victories.
τὸν μὲν δὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ παγκρατίου καταγωνισθέντα ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ δεδήλωκεν ὁ λόγος ἤδη μοι· παλαίων δὲ κατέβαλεν Ἠλεῖον Παιάνιον Ὀλυμπιάδα πάλῃ τὴν προτέραν ἀνῃρημένον καὶ Πύθια παίδων τε πυγμῇ καὶ αὖθις ἐν ἀνδράσι πάλῃ τε καὶ πυγμῇ στεφανωθέντα ἐπὶ ἡμέρας τῆς αὐτῆς.
The competitor who was overcome by him in the pancratium, my account has already shown; but in wrestling he threw Paeanius of Elis, who had won the wrestling in the previous Olympiad, and at the Pythian games had been crowned in the boys' boxing, and later in the men's class in both wrestling and boxing on the same day.