§6.4.1ἔχεται δὲ τοῦ Λυσάνδρου τῆς εἰκόνος Ἐφέσιός τε πύκτης τοὺς ἐλθόντας κρατήσας τῶν παίδων—ὄνομα δέ οἱ ἦν Ἀθήναιος—καὶ Σικυώνιος Σώστρατος παγκρατιαστὴς ἀνήρ, ἐπίκλησις δὲ ἦν Ἀκροχερσίτης αὐτῷ·
Next to the statue of Lysander is an Ephesian boxer, who defeated the boys who came against him—his name was Athenaeus—and Sostratos of Sicyon, a man pancratiast, who had the surname Acrochersites.
παραλαμβανόμενος γὰρ ἄκρων τοῦ ἀνταγωνιζομένου τῶν χειρῶν ἔκλα, καὶ οὐ πρότερον ἀνίει πρὶν ἢ αἴσθοιτο ἀπαγορεύσαντος.
For he, grasping the extremities of his opponent's hands, would bend and break them, and would not let go until he perceived that the opponent had given up.
§6.4.2γεγόνασι δὲ αὐτῷ Νεμείων μὲν νῖκαι καὶ Ἰσθμίων ἀναμὶξ δυόδεκα, Ὀλυμπίασι δὲ καὶ Πυθοῖ, τῇ μὲν δύο, τρεῖς δὲ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ.
He achieved twelve victories in total at Nemea and the Isthmus combined, and at Olympia and Pytho, two at the latter and three at Olympia.
τὴν τετάρτην δὲ Ὀλυμπιάδα ἐπὶ ταῖς ἑκατόν—πρώτην γὰρ δὴ ἐνίκησεν ὁ Σώστρατος ταύτην—οὐκ ἀναγράφουσιν οἱ Ἠλεῖοι, διότι μὴ αὐτοὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἀλλὰ Πισαῖοι καὶ Ἀρκάδες ἔθεσαν ἀντʼ αὐτῶν.
The hundred and fourth Olympiad—for this was the first one Sostratos won—the Eleans do not record, because they themselves did not host the games, but the Pisans and Arcadians hosted them instead of them.
§6.4.3παρὰ δὲ τὸν Σώστρατον παλαιστὴς ἀνὴρ πεποίηται Λεοντίσκος, ἐκ Σικελίας τε ὢν γένος καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν τῷ πορθμῷ Μεσσήνης·
Beside Sostratos is made Leontiskos, a man wrestler, being by race from Sicily and from Messene on the strait.
στεφανωθῆναι δὲ ὑπό τε Ἀμφικτυόνων καὶ δὶς ὑπὸ Ἠλείων, εἶναι δὲ αὐτῷ λέγεται τὴν πάλην καθὰ δὴ καὶ τὸ παγκράτιον τῷ Σικυωνίῳ Σωστράτῳ·
He was crowned by the Amphictyons and twice by the Eleans, and his wrestling is said to have been of the same kind as the pancratium of Sostratos of Sicyon.
καὶ γὰρ τὸν Λεοντίσκον καταβαλεῖν μὲν οὐκ ἐπίστασθαι τοὺς παλαίοντας, νικᾶν δὲ αὐτὸν κλῶντα τοὺς δακτύλους.
For indeed, Leontiskos did not know how to throw his wrestling opponents, but won by bending their fingers.
§6.4.4τὸν δὲ ἀνδριάντα Πυθαγόρας ἐποίησεν ὁ Ῥηγῖνος, εἴπερ τις καὶ ἄλλος ἀγαθὸς τὰ ἐς πλαστικήν.
Pythagoras of Rhegium, who was as good as any other in the art of sculpture, made his statue.
διδαχθῆναι δὲ παρὰ Κλεάρχῳ φασὶν αὐτόν, Ῥηγίνῳ μὲν καὶ αὐτῷ, μαθητῇ δὲ Εὐχείρου·
They say that he was taught by Clearchus, who was also of Rhegium, and a pupil of Eucheirus.
τὸν δὲ Εὔχειρον εἶναι Κορίνθιον, φοιτῆσαι δὲ ὡς Συάδραν τε καὶ Χάρταν Σπαρτιάτας.
They say that Eucheirus was a Corinthian, and that he studied under Syadras and Chartas, who were Spartans.
§6.4.5ὁ δὲ παῖς ὁ ἀναδούμενος ταινίᾳ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπεισήχθω μοι καὶ οὗτος ἐς τὸν λόγον Φειδίου τε ἕνεκα καὶ τῆς ἐς τὰ ἀγάλματα τοῦ Φειδίου σοφίας, ἐπεὶ ἄλλως γε οὐκ ἴσμεν ὅτου τὴν εἰκόνα ὁ Φειδίας ἐποίησε.
Let the boy binding his head with a fillet also be introduced into my account, for the sake of Pheidias and the skill of Pheidias in his statues, since otherwise we do not know whose image Pheidias made.
Σάτυρος δὲ Ἠλεῖος Λυσιάνακτος πατρός, γένους δὲ τοῦ Ἰαμιδῶν, ἐν Νεμέᾳ πεντάκις ἐνίκησε πυκτεύων καὶ Πυθοῖ τε δὶς καὶ δὶς ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ· τέχνη δὲ Ἀθηναίου Σιλανίωνος ὁ ἀνδριάς ἐστι.
Satyros of Elis, whose father was Lysianax, and of the family of the Iamidae, won five times at Nemea as a boxer, twice at Pytho, and twice at Olympia; his statue is the work of Silanion of Athens.
πλάστης δὲ ἄλλος τῶν Ἀττικῶν Πολυκλῆς, Σταδιέως μαθητὴς Ἀθηναίου, πεποίηκε παῖδα Ἐφέσιον παγκρατιαστήν, Ἀμύνταν Ἑλλανίκου.
Another sculptor of the Attic school, Polyclis, a pupil of Stadieus of Athens, made a boy pancratiast of Ephesus, Amyntas, the son of Hellanicus.
§6.4.6Χίλωνι δὲ Ἀχαιῷ Πατρεῖ δύο μὲν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι πάλης ἀνδρῶν, μία δὲ ἐγένετο ἐν Δελφοῖς, τέσσαρες δὲ ἐν Ἰσθμῷ καὶ Νεμείων τρεῖς·
For Chilon, the Achaean of Patrae, there were two Olympic victories in the men's wrestling, one at Delphi, four at the Isthmus, and three at Nemea.
ἐτάφη δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν, καί οἱ καὶ τοῦ βίου συνέπεσεν ἐν πολέμῳ τὴν τελευτὴν γενέσθαι.
He was buried by the common league of the Achaeans, and it befell him to meet the end of his life in war.
μαρτυρεῖ δέ μοι καὶ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ· "
μουνοπάλης νικῶ δὶς Ὀλύμπια Πύθιά τʼ ἄνδρας,
τρὶς Νεμέᾳ, τετράκις δʼ Ἰσθμῷ ἐν ἀγχιάλῳ,
Χίλων Χίλωνος Πατρεύς, ὃν λαὸς Ἀχαιῶν
ἐν πολέμῳ φθίμενον θάψʼ ἀρετῆς ἕνεκεν.
The inscription in Olympia also bears witness to me: "I, as a sole wrestler, won the Olympics twice, and the Pythian games among the men, thrice at Nemea, and four times at the sea-girt Isthmus—Chilon, the son of Chilon of Patrae, whom the host of the Achaeans buried, when he perished in war, on account of his virtue.
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τὸ μὲν δὴ ἐπίγραμμα ἐπὶ τοσοῦτο ἐδήλωσεν·
"The inscription, indeed, made clear this much.
§6.4.7εἰ δὲ Λυσίππου τοῦ ποιήσαντος τὴν εἰκόνα τεκμαιρόμενον τῇ ἡλικίᾳ συμβαλέσθαι δεῖ με τὸν πόλεμον ἔνθα ὁ Χίλων ἔπεσεν, ἤτοι ἐς Χαιρώνειαν Ἀχαιοῖς τοῖς πᾶσιν ὁμοῦ στρατεύσασθαι ἢ ἰδίᾳ κατʼ ἀρετήν τε καὶ τόλμαν Ἀχαιῶν μόνος Ἀντιπάτρου μοι καὶ Μακεδόνων ἐναντία ἀγωνίσασθαι περὶ Λάμιαν φαίνεται τὴν ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ.
If I must estimate the war in which Chilon fell, making a conjecture based on the age of Lysippus who made the statue, it appears to me to be either Chaeronea, where all the Achaeans served together, or that, fighting in defense of his own virtue and daring, he alone of the Achaeans fought against Antipater and the Macedonians around Lamia in Thessaly.
§6.4.8ἐφεξῆς δὲ τοῦ Χίλωνος δύο ἀνάκεινται· τῷ μὲν Μολπίων ἐστὶν ὄνομα, στεφανωθῆναι δὲ τὸ ἐπίγραμμά φησιν αὐτὸν ὑπὸ Ἠλείων· τὸν δὲ ἕτερον, ὅτῳ μηδέν ἐστιν ἐπίγραμμα, μνημονεύουσιν ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης ἐστὶν ὁ ἐκ τῶν Θρᾳκίων Σταγείρων, καὶ αὐτὸν ἤτοι μαθητὴς ἢ καὶ στρατιωτικὸς ἀνέθηκεν ἀνὴρ ἅτε παρὰ Ἀντιπάτρῳ καὶ πρότερον ἰσχύσαντα παρὰ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ.
Next to Chilon are dedicated two statues: to one of them the name is Molpion, and the inscription says that he was crowned by the Eleans; of the other, on which there is no inscription, they remember that it is Aristotle from Thracian Stageira, and either a pupil or some military man dedicated it, since he was powerful with Antipater and previously with Alexander.
§6.4.9Σωδάμας δὲ ἐξ Ἀσσοῦ τῆς ἐν τῇ Τρῳάδι, κειμένης δὲ ὑπὸ τῇ Ἴδῃ, πρῶτος Αἰολέων τῶν ταύτῃ στάδιον Ὀλυμπίασιν ἐνίκησεν ἐν παισίν.
Sodamas from Assos in the Troad, which lies under Mount Ida, was the first of the Aeolians of this region to win the foot-race among the boys at Olympia.
παρὰ δὲ Σωδάμαν Ἀρχίδαμος ἕστηκεν ὁ Ἀγησιλάου, Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλεύς.
Beside Sodamas stands Archidamus, the son of Agesilaus, king of the Lacedaemonians.
πρὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀρχιδάμου τούτου βασιλέως εἰκόνα οὐδενὸς ἔν γε τῇ ὑπερορίᾳ Λακεδαιμονίους ἀναθέντας εὕρισκον· Ἀρχιδάμου δὲ ἄλλων τε καὶ τῆς τελευτῆς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἕνεκα ἀνδριάντα ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἀπέστειλαν, ὅτι ἐν βαρβάρῳ τε ἐπέλαβεν αὐτὸν τὸ χρεὼν καὶ βασιλέων μόνος τῶν ἐν Σπάρτῃ δῆλός ἐστιν ἁμαρτὼν τάφου.
Before this King Archidamus, I found that the Lacedaemonians had dedicated a statue of no one in foreign lands; but they sent a statue of Archidamus to Olympia, in my opinion, on account of his other deeds and especially his death, because fate overtook him in a foreign land, and of the kings in Sparta he alone is known to have missed a tomb.
§6.4.10ταῦτα μὲν δὴ καὶ ἐν τοῖς Σπαρτιατικοῖς λόγοις ἐς πλέον ἡμῖν δεδήλωται·
These things have been shown more fully by us in the Lacedaemonian history.
Εὐάνθει δὲ Κυζικηνῷ γεγόνασι πυγμῆς νῖκαι, μία μὲν ἐν ἀνδράσιν Ὀλυμπική, Νεμείων δὲ ἐν παισὶ καὶ Ἰσθμίων.
For Euanthes of Cyzicus there were victories in boxing, one Olympic victory among the men, and at Nemea and the Isthmus among the boys.
πεποίηται δὲ παρὰ τὸν Εὐάνθην ἀνήρ τε ἱπποτρόφος καὶ τὸ ἅρμα, ἀναβεβηκυῖα δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ ἅρμα παῖς παρθένος· ὄνομα μὲν Λάμπος τῷ ἀνδρί, πατρὶς δὲ ἦν αὐτῷ νεωτάτη τῶν ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ πόλεων, καλουμένη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ Φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀμύντου.
Beside Euanthes is made a horse-breeding man and his chariot, and a young maiden mounted upon the chariot; the man's name is Lampos, and his fatherland was the youngest of the cities in Macedonia, which is named after its founder, Philip, the son of Amyntas.
§6.4.11Κυνίσκῳ δὲ τῷ ἐκ Μαντινείας πύκτῃ παιδὶ ἐποίησε Πολύκλειτος τὴν εἰκόνα.
For Cyniscus, the boy boxer from Mantinea, Polyclitus made the statue.
Ἐργοτέλης δὲ ὁ Φιλάνορος δολίχου δύο ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ νίκας, τοσαύτας δὲ ἄλλας Πυθοῖ καὶ ἐν Ἰσθμῷ τε καὶ Νεμείων ἀνῃρημένος, οὐχ Ἱμεραῖος εἶναι τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς, καθάπερ γε τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ φησι, Κρὴς δὲ εἶναι λέγεται Κνώσσιος·
Ergoteles, the son of Philanor, who won two victories in the long race at Olympia, and as many others at Pytho, the Isthmus, and Nemea, was not originally a Himeraean as the inscription upon him says, but is said to have been a Cretan from Knossos.
ἐκπεσὼν δὲ ὑπὸ στασιωτῶν ἐκ Κνωσσοῦ καὶ ἐς Ἱμέραν ἀφικόμενος πολιτείας τʼ ἔτυχε καὶ πολλὰ εὕρετο ἄλλα ἐς τιμήν.
Having been banished from Knossos by factionalists and having come to Himera, he obtained citizenship and found many other things for his honor.
ἔμελλεν οὖν ὡς τὸ εἰκὸς Ἱμεραῖος ἐν τοῖς ἀγῶσιν ἀναγορευθήσεσθαι.
Consequently, as was natural, he was destined to be proclaimed a Himeraean in the contests.