§6.18.1ἔστι δὲ καὶ τοῦ Κυρηναίου Κρατισθένους χαλκοῦν ἅρμα, καὶ Νίκη τε ἐπιβέβηκε τοῦ ἅρματος καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Κρατισθένης.
There is also a bronze chariot of Cratisthenes of Cyrene, and both Victory and Cratisthenes himself have mounted the chariot.
δῆλα μὲν δὴ ὅτι ἵππων γέγονεν αὐτῷ νίκη·
It is indeed clear that his victory was with horses.
λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡς Μνασέου τοῦ δρομέως, ἐπικληθέντος δὲ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων Λίβυος, εἴη παῖς ὁ Κρατισθένης.
It is also said that Cratisthenes was the son of Mnaseas the runner, who was surnamed 'the Libyan' by the Greeks.
τὰ δὲ ἀναθήματα αὐτῷ τὰ ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἐστὶ τοῦ Ῥηγίνου Πυθαγόρου τέχνη.
His dedications at Olympia are the work of Pythagoras of Rhegium.
§6.18.2ἐνταῦθα καὶ Ἀναξιμένους οἶδα εἰκόνα ἀνευρών, ὃς τὰ ἐν Ἕλλησιν ἀρχαῖα, καὶ ὅσα Φίλιππος ὁ Ἀμύντου καὶ ὕστερον Ἀλέξανδρος εἰργάσατο, συνέγραψεν ὁμοίως ἅπαντα· ἡ δέ οἱ τιμὴ γέγονεν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ παρὰ τῶν Λαμψακηνῶν τοῦ δήμου.
Here too I know that I found a statue of Anaximenes, who wrote of the ancient history of the Greeks, and of all that Philip the son of Amyntas and later Alexander accomplished, writing all of it in like manner; his honor at Olympia came from the people of Lampsacus.
ὑπελίπετο δὲ Ἀναξιμένης τοσάδε ἐς μνήμην· βασιλέα γὰρ οὐ τὰ πάντα ἤπιον ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα θυμῷ χρώμενον, Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Φιλίππου, τέχνῃ περιῆλθε τοιᾷδε.
Anaximenes left the following things for remembrance: for he outwitted the king, Alexander the son of Philip—who was not at all gentle but especially prone to anger—by the following device.
§6.18.3Λαμψακηνῶν τὰ βασιλέως τοῦ Περσῶν φρονησάντων ἢ καὶ αἰτίαν φρονῆσαι λαβόντων, ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος ἅτε ὑπερζέων ἐς αὐτοὺς τῇ ὀργῇ κακῶν ἠπείλει τὰ μέγιστα ἐργάσασθαι·
Since the Lampsacenes favored the cause of the King of Persia, or were accused of doing so, Alexander, boiling over with anger against them, threatened to inflict the greatest evils upon them.
οἱ δὲ ἅτε θέοντες περὶ γυναικῶν τε καὶ παίδων καὶ αὐτῆς πατρίδος ἀποστέλλουσιν Ἀναξιμένην ἱκετεύειν, Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τε αὐτῷ καὶ ἔτι Φιλίππῳ πρότερον γεγονότα ἐν γνώσει.
And they, in their distress for their wives, children, and their country itself, sent Anaximenes to supplicate him, since he was well known to Alexander himself and even earlier to Philip.
προσῄει τε ὁ Ἀναξιμένης, καὶ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον, πεπυσμένον καθʼ ἥντινα αἰτίαν ἥκοι, κατομόσασθαί φασιν ἐπονομάζοντα θεοὺς τοὺς Ἑλλήνων ἦ μὴν αὐτοῦ ταῖς δεήσεσιν ὁπόσα ἐστὶν ἐναντία ἐργάσασθαι.
Anaximenes approached him, and they say that Alexander, having learned for what reason he had come, swore a solemn oath by the gods of the Greeks that he would surely do the opposite of whatever requests he might make.
§6.18.4ἔνθα δὴ εἶπεν Ἀναξιμένης· “χαρίσασθαι μοι τήνδε ὦ βασιλεῦ τὴν χάριν, ἐξανδραποδίσασθαι μὲν γυναῖκας καὶ τέκνα Λαμψακηνῶν, καταβαλεῖν δὲ καὶ ἐς ἔδαφος τὴν πόλιν πᾶσαν, τὰ δὲ ἱερὰ τῶν θεῶν σφισιν ἐμπρῆσαι”. ὁ μὲν ταῦτα ἔλεγεν, Ἀλέξανδρος δὲ οὔτε πρὸς τὸ σόφισμα ἀντιμηχανήσασθαί τι εὑρίσκων καὶ ἐνεχόμενος τῇ ἀνάγκῃ τοῦ ὅρκου συγγνώμην ἔνεμεν οὐκ ἐθέλων Λαμψακηνοῖς.
Thereupon Anaximenes said: 'Grant me this favor, O king: to enslave the wives and children of the Lampsacenes, to raze the entire city to the ground, and to burn the temples of their gods.' When he said this, Alexander, finding no way to counter-scheme against this clever trick and bound by the necessity of his oath, granted pardon to the Lampsacenes, though against his will.
§6.18.5φαίνεται δὲ καὶ ἄνδρα ὁ Ἀναξιμένης ἐχθρὸν οὐκ ἀμαθέστατα ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπιφθονώτατα ἀμυνάμενος.
It also appears that Anaximenes avenged himself on an enemy in a way not at all ignorant but highly malicious.
ἐπεφύκει μὲν αὐτὸς σοφιστὴς καὶ σοφιστῶν λόγους μιμεῖσθαι·
He was by nature a sophist and capable of mimicking the speeches of sophists.
ὡς δέ οἱ διαφορὰ ἐς Θεόπομπον ἐγεγόνει τὸν Δαμασιστράτου, γράφει βιβλίον ἐς Ἀθηναίους καὶ ἐπὶ Λακεδαιμονίοις ὁμοῦ καὶ Θηβαίοις συγγραφὴν λοίδορον.
When a quarrel arose between him and Theopompus the son of Damasistratus, he wrote a slanderous treatise against the Athenians, and at the same time against the Lacedaemonians and Thebans.
ὡς δὲ ἦν ἐς τὸ ἀκριβέστατον αὐτῷ μεμιμημένα, ἐπιγράψας τοῦ Θεοπόμπου τὸ ὄνομα τῷ βιβλίῳ διέπεμπεν ἐς τὰς πόλεις· καὶ αὐτός τε συγγεγραφὼς ἦν καὶ τὸ ἔχθος τὸ ἐς Θεόπομπον ἀνὰ πᾶσαν τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐπηύξητο.
Since it was mimicked with the utmost accuracy, he inscribed the name of Theopompus upon the book and sent it around to the cities; and though he himself was the author, the hatred against Theopompus increased throughout the whole of Greece.
§6.18.6οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ εἰπεῖν τις αὐτοσχεδίως Ἀναξιμένους πρότερός ἐστιν εὑρηκώς·
Indeed, no one is found to have discovered how to speak extempore before Anaximenes.
τὰ ἔπη δὲ τὰ ἐς Ἀλέξανδρον οὔ μοι πιστά ἐστιν Ἀναξιμένην τὸν ποιήσαντα εἶναι.
But as for the epic poems about Alexander, it does not seem credible to me that Anaximenes was the one who composed them.
Σωτάδης δὲ ἐπὶ δολίχου νίκαις Ὀλυμπιάδι μὲν ἐνάτῃ καὶ ἐνενηκοστῇ Κρής, καθάπερ γε καὶ ἦν, ἀνερρήθη, τῇ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ δὲ λαβὼν χρήματα παρὰ τοῦ Ἐφεσίων κοινοῦ Ἐφεσίοις ἐσεποίησεν αὑτόν· καὶ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῷ ἔργῳ φυγῇ ζημιοῦσιν οἱ Κρῆτες.
Sotades, on the other hand, was proclaimed a Cretan, as indeed he was, for his victories in the long race at the ninety-ninth Olympiad; but at the next Olympiad, having accepted money from the common treasury of the Ephesians, he had himself enrolled as an Ephesian, and for this deed the Cretans punished him with exile.
§6.18.7πρῶται δὲ ἀθλητῶν ἀνετέθησαν ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν εἰκόνες Πραξιδάμαντός τε Αἰγινήτου νικήσαντος πυγμῇ τὴν ἐνάτην Ὀλυμπιάδα ἐπὶ ταῖς πεντήκοντα καὶ Ὀπουντίου Ῥηξιβίου παγκρατιαστὰς καταγωνισαμένου μιᾷ πρὸς ταῖς ἑξήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι·
The first statues of athletes dedicated at Olympia were those of Praxidamas of Aegina, who won in boxing at the fifty-ninth Olympiad, and of Rhexibius of Opus, who defeated his opponents in the pancratium at the sixty-first Olympiad.
αὗται κεῖνται μὲν αἱ εἰκόνες οὐ πρόσω τῆς Οἰνομάου κίονος, ξύλου δέ εἰσιν εἰργασμέναι, Ῥηξιβίου μὲν συκῆς, ἡ δὲ τοῦ Αἰγινήτου κυπαρίσσου καὶ ἧσσον τῆς ἑτέρας πεπονηκυῖά ἐστιν.
These statues are situated not far from the pillar of Oenomaus, and they are made of wood: that of Rhexibius of fig wood, and that of the Aeginetan of cypress, which is less damaged than the other.