§6.17.1ταῦτα μὲν δὴ τὰ ἀξιολογώτατα ἀνδρὶ ποιουμένῳ τὴν ἔφοδον ἐν τῇ Ἄλτει κατὰ τὰ ἡμῖν εἰρημένα·
These are indeed the most noteworthy things for a man making the round in the Altis, according to what has been said by us.
εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λεωνιδαίου πρὸς τὸν βωμὸν τὸν μέγαν ἀφικέσθαι τῇ δεξιᾷ θελήσειας, τοσάδε ἔστι σοι τῶν ἀνηκόντων ἐς μνήμην.
And if from the Leonidaeum you should wish to go to the great altar on the right, you have the following things that belong to memory.
Δημοκράτης Τενέδιος καὶ Ἠλεῖος Κριάννιος, οὗτος μὲν ὅπλου λαβὼν νίκην, Δημοκράτης δὲ ἀνδρῶν πάλης·
Democrates of Tenedos and Criannius the Elean, the latter having won a victory in the race in armor, and Democrates in the men's wrestling.
ἀνδριάντας δὲ τοῦ μὲν Μιλήσιος Διονυσικλῆς, τοῦ δὲ Κριαννίου Μακεδὼν Λῦσός ἐστιν ὁ ἐργασάμενος.
Their statues were made, the former by Dionysicles of Miletus, and that of Criannius by Lysus of Macedon.
§6.17.2Κλαζομενίου δὲ Ἡροδότου καὶ Φιλίνου τοῦ Ἡγεπόλιδος Κῴου ἀνέθεσαν τὰς εἰκόνας αἱ πόλεις, Κλαζομένιοι μὲν ὅτι ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ Κλαζομενίων πρῶτος ἀνηγορεύθη νικῶν Ἡρόδοτος, ἡ δέ οἱ νίκη σταδίου γέγονεν ἐν παισί, Φιλῖνον δὲ οἱ Κῷοι δόξης ἕνεκα ἀνέθεσαν·
As for Herodotus of Clazomenae and Philinus the son of Hegepolis of Cos, their cities dedicated their statues: the Clazomenians because Herodotus was the first of the Clazomenians to be proclaimed victor at Olympia, and his victory was in the boys' stade-race; while the Coans dedicated Philinus for the sake of his glory.
ἐν μέν γε Ὀλυμπίᾳ δρόμου γεγόνασιν αὐτῷ νῖκαι πέντε, τέσσαρες δὲ Πυθοῖ καὶ ἴσαι Νεμείων, ἐν δὲ Ἰσθμῷ μία ἐπὶ ταῖς δέκα.
Indeed, at Olympia he had five victories in the foot-race, four at Pytho, and the same number at Nemea, and eleven at the Isthmus.
§6.17.3Πτολεμαῖον δὲ τὸν Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Λάγου Ἀριστόλαος ἀνέθηκε Μακεδὼν ἀνήρ.
And Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy the son of Lagus, was dedicated by Aristolaus, a Macedonian man.
ἀνάκειται δὲ καὶ πύκτης κρατήσας ἐν παισὶ Βούτας Πολυνείκους Μιλήσιος, καὶ Καλλικράτης ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπὶ Ληθαίῳ Μαγνησίας ἐπὶ τῷ ὁπλίτῃ δρόμῳ στεφάνους δύο ἀνῃρημένος·
There is also dedicated a boxer who conquered among the boys, Butas, the son of Polyneices, a Miletus; and Callicrates, from Magnesia on the Lethaeus, who won two crowns in the race in armor.
Λυσίππου δὲ ἔργον ἡ τοῦ Καλλικράτους ἐστὶν εἰκών.
The statue of Callicrates is the work of Lysippus.
§6.17.4Ἐνατίωνι δὲ καὶ Ἀλεξιβίῳ, τῷ μὲν ἐν παισὶ σταδίου, Ἀλεξιβίῳ δὲ πεντάθλου γέγονε νίκη, καὶ Ἡραία τε Ἀρκάδων ἐστὶν αὐτῷ πατρὶς καὶ Ἀκέστωρ ὁ τὴν εἰκόνα εἰργασμένος·
To Enation and Alexibius, to the former came a victory in the boys' stade-race, and to Alexibius in the pentathlon; and Heraea in Arcadia was his country, and Acestor was the one who made the statue.
Ἐνατίωνα δὲ ἧστινος ἦν οὐ δηλοῖ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα, ὅτι δὲ τοῦ Ἀρκάδων ἦν ἔθνους δηλοῖ.
As for Enation, the inscription does not reveal of which city he was, but reveals that he belonged to the Arcadian people.
Κολοφώνιοι δὲ Ἑρμησιάναξ Ἀγονέου καὶ Εἰκάσιος Λυκίνου τε ὢν καὶ τῆς Ἑρμησιάνακτος θυγατρὸς κατεπάλαισαν μὲν παῖδας ἀμφότεροι, Ἑρμησιάνακτι δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ τοῦ Κολοφωνίων ὑπῆρξεν ἀνατεθῆναι τὴν εἰκόνα.
And the Colophonians, Hermesianax the son of Agoneus, and Eicasius, who was the son of Lycinus and the daughter of Hermesianax, both wrestled down their opponents among the boys; and to Hermesianax it was also granted that his statue was dedicated by the common wealth of the Colophonians.
§6.17.5τούτων δέ εἰσιν Ἠλεῖοι πλησίον πυγμῇ παῖδας κρατήσαντες, ὁ μὲν Σθέννιδος ἔργον τοῦ Ὀλυνθίου Χοιρίλος, Θεότιμος δὲ Δαιτώνδα Σικυωνίου·
Near these are Eleans who conquered the boys in boxing, on the one hand Choirilus, the work of Sthennis of Olynthus, and on the other Theotimus, the work of Daetondas of Sicyon.
παῖς δὲ ὁ Θεότιμος ἦν Μοσχίωνος, Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τῷ Φιλίππου τῆς ἐπὶ Δαρεῖον καὶ Πέρσας στρατείας μετασχόντος.
And Theotimus was the son of Moschion, who took part with Alexander, the son of Philip, in his campaign against Darius and the Persians.
δύο δὲ αὖθις ἐξ Ἤλιδος, Ἀρχίδαμος τεθρίππῳ νενικηκὼς καὶ Ἐπέραστός ἐστιν ὁ Θεογόνου ὅπλου νίκην ἀνῃρημένος·
And again, there are two from Elis, Archidamus, who conquered with a four-horse chariot, and Eperastus, the son of Theogonus, who won a victory in the race in armor.
§6.17.6εἶναι δὲ καὶ μάντις ὁ Ἐπέραστος τοῦ Κλυτιδῶν γένους φησὶν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐπιγράμματος τῇ τελευτῇ,
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τῶν δʼ ἱερογλώσσων Κλυτιδᾶν γένος εὔχομαι εἶναι
μάντις, ἀπʼ ἰσοθέων αἷμα Μελαμποδιδᾶν. "
Μελάμποδος γὰρ ἦν τοῦ Ἀμυθάονος Μάντιος, τοῦ δὲ Ὀικλῆς, Κλυτίος δὲ Ἀλκμαίωνος τοῦ Ἀμφιαράου τοῦ Ὀϊκλέους·
And Eperastus says that he is also a seer of the race of the Clytiadae, at the end of the inscription: "I boast that I am of the race of the holy-tongued Clytiadae, a seer, drawing my blood from the godlike Melampodidae." For Melampus was the son of Mantius, the son of Amythaon, and Oicles was the son of Mantius, while Clytius was the son of Alcmaeon, the son of Amphiaraus, the son of Oicles.
ἐγεγόνει δὲ τῷ Ἀλκμαίωνι ὁ Κλυτίος ἐκ τῆς Φηγέως θυγατρὸς καὶ ἐς τὴν Ἦλιν μετῴκησε, τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς εἶναι τῆς μητρὸς σύνοικος φεύγων, ἅτε τοῦ Ἀλκμαίωνος ἐπιστάμενος σφᾶς εἰργασμένους τὸν φόνον.
And Clytius had been born to Alcmaeon by the daughter of Phegeus, and he migrated to Elis, fleeing from living together with his mother's brothers, because he knew that they had committed the murder of Alcmaeon.
§6.17.7ἀνδριάντας δὲ ἀναμεμιγμένους οὐκ ἐπιφανέσιν ἄγαν ἀναθήμασιν Ἀλεξίνικόν τε Ἠλεῖον, τέχνην τοῦ Σικυωνίου Κανθάρου, πάλης ἐν παισὶν ἀνῃρημένον νίκην, καὶ τὸν Λεοντῖνον Γοργίαν ἰδεῖν ἔστιν·
And among statues mixed with not very conspicuous dedications, one can see Alexinicus the Elean, the art of Cantharus of Sicyon, who won a victory in the boys' wrestling, and Gorgias of Leontini.
ἀναθεῖναι δὲ τὴν εἰκόνα ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν φησὶν Εὔμολπος ἀπόγονος τρίτος Δηικράτους συνοικήσαντος ἀδελφῇ τῇ Γοργίου.
And Eumolpus, the third descendant of Deicrates who had married the sister of Gorgias, says that he dedicated the statue at Olympia.
§6.17.8οὗτος ὁ Γοργίας πατρὸς μὲν ἦν Χαρμαντίδου, λέγεται δὲ ἀνασώσασθαι μελέτην λόγων πρῶτος ἠμελημένην τε ἐς ἅπαν καὶ ἐς λήθην ὀλίγου δεῖν ἥκουσαν ἀνθρώποις·
This Gorgias was the son of Charmantides, and he is said to have been the first to revive the study of rhetoric, which had been entirely neglected and had come within a little of being forgotten by men.
εὐδοκιμῆσαι δὲ Γοργίαν λόγων ἕνεκα ἔν τε πανηγύρει τῇ Ὀλυμπικῇ φασι καὶ ἀφικόμενον κατὰ πρεσβείαν ὁμοῦ Τισίᾳ παρʼ Ἀθηναίους.
And they say that Gorgias won high reputation because of his speeches both at the Olympic festival and when he came on an embassy together with Tisias to the Athenians.
καίτοι ἄλλα τε Τισίας ἐς λόγους ἐσηνέγκατο καὶ πιθανώτατα τῶν καθʼ αὑτὸν γυναικὶ Συρακουσίᾳ χρημάτων ἔγραψεν ἀμφισβήτησιν·
And yet Tisias contributed other things to speeches, and wrote most persuasively of those of his time a defense in a dispute about money for a Syracusan woman.
§6.17.9ἀλλά γε ἐκείνου τε ἐς πλέον τιμῆς ἀφίκετο ὁ Γοργίας παρὰ Ἀθηναίοις, καὶ Ἰάσων ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ τυραννήσας Πολυκράτους, οὐ τὰ ἔσχατα ἐνεγκαμένου διδασκαλείου τοῦ Ἀθήνῃσι, τούτου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἐπίπροσθεν αὐτὸν ὁ Ἰάσων ἐποιήσατο.
Yet Gorgias arrived at greater honor than he among the Athenians; and Jason, who was tyrant in Thessaly, preferred him to Polycrates, who had won no small reputation for his school at Athens.
βιῶναι δὲ ἔτη Γοργίαν πέντε φασὶν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἑκατόν·
And they say that Gorgias lived for one hundred and five years.
Λεοντίνων δὲ ἐρημωθεῖσάν ποτε ὑπὸ Συρακουσίων τὴν πόλιν κατʼ ἐμὲ αὖθις συνέβαινεν οἰκεῖσθαι.
And the city of the Leontines, having once been laid waste by the Syracusans, happened to be inhabited again in my time.