§6.3.1Δαμίσκου δὲ ἐγγύτατα ἕστηκεν ἀνὴρ ὅστις δή, τὸ γὰρ ὄνομα οὐ λέγουσιν ἐπʼ αὐτῷ, Πτολεμαίου δὲ ἀνάθημά ἐστι τοῦ Λάγου·
Very near Damiscus stands a man, whoever he may be, for they do not mention his name upon it; but it is a dedication of Ptolemy, the son of Lagus.
Μακεδόνα δὲ αὑτὸν ὁ Πτολεμαῖος ἐν τῷ ἐπιγράμματι ἐκάλεσε, βασιλεύων ὅμως Αἰγύπτου.
Ptolemy called himself a Macedonian in the inscription, although he was king of Egypt.
Χαιρέᾳ δὲ Σικυωνίῳ πύκτῃ παιδὶ ἐπίγραμμά ἐστιν ὡς νικήσειεν ἡλικίαν νέος καὶ ὡς πατρὸς εἴη Χαιρήμονος, γέγραπται δὲ καὶ ὁ τὸν ἀνδριάντα εἰργασμένος Ἀστερίων Αἰσχύλου.
For Chaereas, a boy boxer from Sicyon, there is an inscription stating that he won when young in years and that his father was Chaeremon; and it is also written that the one who made the statue was Asterion, the son of Aeschylus.
§6.3.2μετὰ δὲ τὸν Χαιρέαν Μεσσήνιός τε παῖς Σόφιος καὶ ἀνὴρ Ἠλεῖος ἀνάκειται Στόμιος, καὶ τῷ μὲν τοὺς συνθέοντας τῶν παίδων παρελθεῖν, Στομίῳ δὲ πενταθλοῦντι ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ Νεμείων τρεῖς ὑπῆρξεν ἀνελέσθαι νίκας.
After Chaereas are dedicated Sophios, a Messenian boy, and Stomios, an Elean man; to the former it befell to outstrip the boys who ran with him, and to Stomios to win three victories in the pentathlon at Olympia and at the Nemean games.
τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ καὶ τάδε ἐπιλέγει, τῆς ἵππου τε Ἠλείοις αὐτὸν ἡγούμενον ἀναστῆσαι τρόπαια καὶ ἄνδρα τοῖς πολεμίοις στρατηγοῦντα ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ Στομίου, μονομαχήσαντά οἱ κατὰ πρόκλησιν·
The inscription upon him also adds these things: that he, commanding the cavalry for the Eleans, set up trophies, and that a man commanding the enemy died at the hands of Stomios, having fought a duel with him by challenge.
§6.3.3εἶναι δὲ αὐτὸν ἐκ Σικυῶνος οἱ Ἠλεῖοί φασι καὶ ἄρχειν Σικυωνίων, στρατεῦσαι δὲ ἐπὶ Σικυῶνα αὐτοὶ φιλίᾳ Θηβαίων ὁμοῦ τῇ ἐκ Βοιωτίας δυνάμει.
The Eleans say that this man was from Sicyon and ruled over the Sicyonians, and that they themselves, through friendship with the Thebans, marched against Sicyon together with the force from Boeotia.
φαίνοιτο ἂν οὖν ἡ ἐπὶ Σικυῶνα Ἠλείων καὶ Θηβαίων στρατεία γεγενῆσθαι μετὰ τὸ ἀτύχημα Λακεδαιμονίων τὸ ἐν Λεύκτροις.
Thus the expedition of the Eleans and Thebans against Sicyon would appear to have taken place after the disaster of the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra.
§6.3.4ἐφεξῆς δὲ ἀνάκειται μὲν πύκτης ἐκ Λεπρέου τοῦ Ἠλείων, Λάβαξ Εὔφρονος, ἀνάκειται δὲ καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς Ἤλιδος παλαιστὴς ἀνὴρ Ἀριστόδημος Θράσιδος·
Next is dedicated a boxer from Lepreum in the territory of the Eleans, Labax, son of Euphron, and also dedicated from Elis itself is a wrestler, Aristodemus, son of Thrasis; he had also two victories at Pytho.
γεγόνασι δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ Πυθοῖ δύο νῖκαι, ἡ δὲ εἰκών ἐστι τοῦ Ἀριστοδήμου τέχνη Δαιδάλου τοῦ Σικυωνίου, μαθητοῦ καὶ πατρὸς Πατροκλέους.
The statue of Aristodemus is the work of Daedalus of Sicyon, the pupil and father of Patrocles.
§6.3.5Ἵππον δὲ Ἠλεῖον πυγμῇ παῖδας κρατήσαντα ἐποίησε Δαμόκριτος Σικυώνιος, ὃς ἐς πέμπτον διδάσκαλον ἀνῄει τὸν Ἀττικὸν Κριτίαν·
The statue of Hippos, an Elean who won the boys' boxing, was made by Damocritus of Sicyon, who went back in the line of teachers to the fifth generation to Critias the Attic.
Πτόλιχος μὲν γὰρ ἔμαθεν ὁ Κορκυραῖος παρʼ αὐτῷ Κριτίᾳ, Πτολίχου δὲ ἦν μαθητὴς Ἀμφίων, Πίσων δὲ ἀνὴρ ἐκ Καλαυρείας ἐδιδάχθη παρʼ Ἀμφίονι, ὁ δὲ παρὰ τῷ Πίσωνι Δαμόκριτος.
For Ptolichus of Corcyra studied under Critias himself, and Amphion was a pupil of Ptolichus, while Piso, a man from Calauria, was taught by Amphion, and Damocritus by Piso.
§6.3.6Κρατῖνος δὲ ἐξ Αἰγείρας τῆς Ἀχαιῶν τότε ἐγένετο κάλλιστος τῶν ἐφʼ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ σὺν τέχνῃ μάλιστα ἐπάλαισε, καταπαλαίσαντι δὲ αὐτῷ τοὺς παῖδας προσαναστῆσαι καὶ τὸν παιδοτρίβην ὑπὸ Ἠλείων ἐδόθη·
Cratinus from Aegeira in Achaea was in his time the most beautiful of his contemporaries, and wrestled with the greatest skill. When he wrestled down the boys, he was permitted by the Eleans to set up also a statue of his trainer beside him.
τὸν δὲ ἀνδριάντα ἐποίησε Σικυώνιος Κάνθαρος, Ἀλέξιδος μὲν πατρός, διδασκάλου δὲ ὢν Εὐτυχίδου.
His statue was made by Cantharus of Sicyon, who was the son of Alexis, and the teacher of Eutychides.
§6.3.7Εὐπολέμου δὲ Ἠλείου τὴν μὲν εἰκόνα Σικυώνιος εἴργασται Δαίδαλος·
The statue of Eupolemus, an Elean, was made by Daedalus of Sicyon.
τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ μηνύει σταδίου μὲν ἀνδρῶν Ὀλυμπίασι νίκην ἀνελέσθαι τὸν Εὐπόλεμον, εἶναι δὲ καὶ δύο Πυθικοὺς αὐτῷ πεντάθλου στεφάνους καὶ ἄλλον Νεμείων.
The inscription upon it declares that Eupolemus won the Olympic victory in the men's stadion, and that he also had two Pythian crowns for the pentathlon, and another from the Nemean games.
λέγεται δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ Εὐπολέμῳ καὶ τάδε, ὡς ἐφεστήκοιεν τρεῖς ἐπὶ τῷ δρόμῳ Ἑλλανοδίκαι, νικᾶν δὲ τῷ μὲν Εὐπολέμῳ δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν δοῖεν, ὁ τρίτος δὲ Ἀμβρακιώτῃ Λέοντι, καὶ ὡς χρημάτων καταδικάσαιτο ὁ Λέων ἐπὶ τῆς Ὀλυμπικῆς βουλῆς ἑκατέρου τῶν Ἑλλανοδικῶν οἳ νικᾶν τὸν Εὐπόλεμον ἔγνωσαν.
It is also said concerning Eupolemus that three Hellanodikai presided over the race, and two of them awarded the victory to Eupolemus, but the third to Leon, an Ambraciot, and that Leon secured a fine against each of the two Hellanodikai who had decided that Eupolemus won, before the Olympic council.
§6.3.8Οἰβώτα δὲ τὸν μὲν ἀνδριάντα Ἀχαιοὶ κατὰ πρόσταγμα ἀνέθεσαν τοῦ ἐν Δελφοῖς Ἀπόλλωνος ἐπὶ Ὀλυμπιάδος ὀγδοηκοστῆς· ἡ δὲ τοῦ σταδίου νίκη τῷ Οἰβώτᾳ γέγονεν Ὀλυμπιάδι ἕκτῃ.
The statue of Oebotas was dedicated by the Achaeans in accordance with an oracle of Apollo at Delphi in the eightieth Olympiad; but Oebotas's victory in the stadion occurred in the sixth Olympiad.
πῶς ἂν οὖν τήν γε ἐν Πλαταιαῖς μάχην μεμαχημένος ὁ Οἰβώτας εἴη μετὰ Ἑλλήνων;
How then could Oebotas have fought along with the Greeks at the battle of Plataea?
πέμπτῃ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῇ ἑβδομηκοστῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι τὸ πταῖσμα ἐγένετο τὸ ἐν Πλαταιαῖς Μαρδονίῳ καὶ Μήδοις.
For the defeat of Mardonius and the Medes at Plataea took place in the seventy-fifth Olympiad.
ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν λέγειν μὲν τὰ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων λεγόμενα ἀνάγκη, πείθεσθαι δὲ πᾶσιν οὐκέτι ἀνάγκη.
Now, it is necessary for me to report what is said by the Greeks, but it is no longer necessary to believe it all.
τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ὁποῖα τὰ συμβάντα ἦν ἐς τὸν Οἰβώταν, τῇ ἐς Ἀχαιοὺς προσέσται μοι συγγραφῇ.
What other things befell Oebotas will be added in my account of the Achaeans.