§6.7.1ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ἐς τοσοῦτο εἰρήσθω·
Let this much be said on these matters.
μετὰ δὲ τὸν ἀνδριάντα τοῦ Εὐθύμου Πύθαρχός τε ἕστηκε Μαντινεὺς σταδιοδρόμος καὶ πύκτης Ἠλεῖος Χαρμίδης, λαβόντες νίκας ἐπὶ παισί.
After the statue of Euthymus stand Pytharchos, a Mantinean stadium-runner, and Charmides, an Elean boxer, who won victories as boys.
θεασάμενος δὲ καὶ τούτους ἐπὶ τῶν Ῥοδίων ἀθλητῶν ἀφίξῃ τὰς εἰκόνας, Διαγόραν καὶ τὸ ἐκείνου γένος·
When you have looked at these too, you will come to the statues of the Rhodian athletes, Diagoras and his family.
οἱ δὲ συνεχεῖς τε ἀλλήλοις καὶ ἐν κόσμῳ τοιῷδε ἀνέκειντο, Ἀκουσίλαος μὲν λαβὼν πυγμῆς ἐν ἀνδράσι στέφανον, Δωριεὺς δὲ ὁ νεώτατος παγκρατίῳ νικήσας Ὀλυμπιάσιν ἐφεξῆς τρισί.
They were dedicated next to one another in the following order: Akousilaos, having won the crown in boxing among men, and Dorieus, the youngest, having won in the pankration in three successive Olympiads.
πρότερον δὲ ἔτι τοῦ Δωριέως ἐκράτησε καὶ Δαμάγητος τοὺς ἐσελθόντας ἐς τὸ παγκράτιον.
And even before Dorieus, Damagetos had defeated those who entered the pankration.
§6.7.2οὗτοι μὲν ἀδελφοί τέ εἰσι καὶ Διαγόρου παῖδες, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖς κεῖται καὶ ὁ Διαγόρας, πυγμῆς ἐν ἀνδράσιν ἀνελόμενος νίκην·
These are brothers and sons of Diagoras, and near them is placed Diagoras himself, who won a victory in boxing among men.
τοῦ Διαγόρου δὲ τὴν εἰκόνα Μεγαρεὺς εἰργάσατο Καλλικλῆς Θεοκόσμου τοῦ ποιήσαντος τὸ ἄγαλμα ἐν Μεγάροις τοῦ Διός.
The statue of Diagoras was made by the Megarian Kallikles, son of Theokosmos, who made the cult-statue of Zeus in Megara.
Διαγόρου δὲ καὶ οἱ τῶν θυγατέρων παῖδες πύξ τε ἤσκησαν καὶ ἔσχον Ὀλυμπικὰς νίκας, ἐν μὲν ἀνδράσιν Εὐκλῆς Καλλιάνακτός τε ὢν καὶ Καλλιπατείρας τῆς Διαγόρου, Πεισίροδος δὲ ἐν παισίν, ὃν ἡ μήτηρ ἀνδρὸς ἐπιθεμένη γυμναστοῦ σχῆμα ἐπὶ τῶν Ὀλυμπίων αὐτὴ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἤγαγεν·
The children of Diagoras' daughters also practiced boxing and gained Olympic victories: namely, among men, Eucles, who was the son of Kallianax and of Diagoras' daughter Kallipateira; and among boys, Peisirodos, whom his mother, having assumed the guise of a male trainer, herself brought to the contest at the Olympic games.
§6.7.3οὗτος δὲ ὁ Πεισίροδος καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἄλτει παρὰ τῆς μητρὸς τὸν πατέρα ἕστηκε.
This Peisirodos also stands in the Altis near his mother's father.
Διαγόραν δὲ καὶ ὁμοῦ τοῖς παισὶν Ἀκουσιλάῳ καὶ Δαμαγήτῳ λέγουσιν ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἐλθεῖν· νικήσαντες δὲ οἱ νεανίσκοι διὰ τῆς πανηγύρεως τὸν πατέρα ἔφερον βαλλόμενόν τε ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἄνθεσι καὶ εὐδαίμονα ἐπὶ τοῖς παισὶ καλούμενον.
They say that Diagoras came to Olympia together with his sons, Akousilaos and Damagetos; and when the young men won, they carried their father through the assembly, while he was pelted with flowers by the Greeks and called happy on account of his children.
γένος δὲ ὁ Διαγόρας τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς Μεσσήνιος πρὸς γυναικῶν ἦν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀριστομένους ἐγεγόνει θυγατρός.
Diagoras was of Messenian descent originally on the female side, being sprung from the daughter of Aristomenes.
§6.7.4Δωριεῖ δὲ τῷ Διαγόρου παρὲξ ἢ Ὀλυμπίασιν Ἰσθμίων μὲν γεγόνασιν ὀκτὼ νῖκαι, Νεμείων δὲ ἀποδέουσαι μιᾶς ἐς τὰς ὀκτώ· λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡς Πύθια ἀνέλοιτο ἀκονιτί.
For Dorieus, the son of Diagoras, besides at Olympia, there were eight victories at the Isthmian games, and at the Nemean games one short of eight; and it is also said that he won at the Pythian games without a contest.
ἀνηγορεύοντο δὲ οὗτός τε καὶ ὁ Πεισίροδος Θούριοι, διωχθέντες ὑπὸ τῶν ἀντιστασιωτῶν ἐκ τῆς Ῥόδου καὶ ἐς Ἰταλίαν παρὰ Θουρίους ἀπελθόντες.
Both he and Peisirodos were proclaimed as Thurians, because they were driven out of Rhodes by political opponents and went to Italy to the Thurians.
χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον κατῆλθεν ὁ Δωριεὺς ἐς Ῥόδον· καὶ φανερώτατα δὴ ἁπάντων ἀνὴρ εἷς φρονήσας οὗτος τὰ Λακεδαιμονίων φαίνεται, ὥστε καὶ ἐναυμάχησεν ἐναντία Ἀθηναίων ναυσὶν οἰκείαις, ἐς ὃ τριήρων ἁλοὺς Ἀττικῶν ἀνήχθη ζῶν παρὰ Ἀθηναίους.
Sometime later Dorieus returned to Rhodes; and he appears most clearly of all men to have favored the Lacedaemonian cause, so that he even fought in a sea-battle against the Athenians with his own ships, until, captured by Attic triremes, he was brought alive to the Athenians.
§6.7.5οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι πρὶν μὲν ἢ Δωριέα παρὰ σφᾶς ἀναχθῆναι θυμῷ τε ἐς αὐτὸν καὶ ἀπειλαῖς ἐχρῶντο· ὡς δὲ ἐς ἐκκλησίαν συνελθόντες ἄνδρα οὕτω μέγαν καὶ δόξης ἐς τοσοῦτο ἥκοντα ἐθεάσαντο ἐν σχήματι αἰχμαλώτου, μεταπίπτει σφίσιν ἐς αὐτὸν ἡ γνώμη καὶ ἀπελθεῖν ἀφιᾶσιν οὐδὲ ἔργον οὐδὲν ἄχαρι ἐργάζονται, παρόν σφισι πολλά τε καὶ σὺν τῷ δικαίῳ δρᾶσαι.
Before Dorieus was brought to them, the Athenians had shown anger and threats against him; but when they assembled in the assembly and saw a man so great and who had reached such fame in the guise of a captive, their mind towards him changed, and they let him go free, doing no unpleasant deed to him, though it was in their power to do many things to him and with justice.
§6.7.6τὰ δὲ ἐς τοῦ Δωριέως τὴν τελευτήν ἐστιν ἐν τῇ συγγραφῇ τῇ Ἀτθίδι Ἀνδροτίωνι εἰρημένα, εἶναι μὲν τηνικαῦτα ἐν Καύνῳ τὸ βασιλέως ναυτικὸν καὶ Κόνωνα ἐπʼ αὐτῷ στρατηγόν, Ῥοδίων δὲ τὸν δῆμον πεισθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ Κόνωνος ἀπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων μεταβαλέσθαι σφᾶς ἐς τὴν βασιλέως καὶ Ἀθηναίων συμμαχίαν, Δωριέα δὲ ἀποδημεῖν μὲν τότε ἐκ Ῥόδου περὶ τὰ ἐντὸς Πελοποννήσου χωρία, συλληφθέντα δὲ ὑπὸ ἀνδρῶν Λακεδαιμονίων αὐτὸν καὶ ἀναχθέντα ἐς Σπάρτην ἀδικεῖν τε ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων καταγνωσθῆναι καὶ ἐπιβληθῆναί οἱ θάνατον ζημίαν.
What relates to the death of Dorieus is told by Androtion in his Attic history, namely that at that time the King's navy was at Kaunos, and Conon was general over it; and that the people of the Rhodians, persuaded by Conon, changed their alliance from the Lacedaemonians to that of the King and the Athenians; and that Dorieus was at that time away from Rhodes, in the districts in the interior of the Peloponnese; and that he was arrested by Lacedaemonian men and brought to Sparta, and having been convicted of wrongdoing by the Lacedaemonians, the penalty of death was imposed upon him.
§6.7.7εἰ δὲ τὸν ὄντα εἶπεν Ἀνδροτίων λόγον, ἐθέλειν μοι φαίνεται Λακεδαιμονίους ἐς τὸ ἴσον ἔτι Ἀθηναίοις καταστῆσαι, ὅτι καὶ Ἀθηναίοις ἐς Θράσυλλον καὶ τοὺς ἐν Ἀργινούσαις ὁμοῦ τῷ Θρασύλλῳ στρατηγήσαντας προπετείας ἐστὶν ἔγκλημα.
If Androtion told the true story, he seems to me to wish to bring the Lacedaemonians to an equal footing with the Athenians, because there is also against the Athenians an accusation of rashness in respect to Thrasyllos and those who were generals with Thrasyllos at Arginusae.
Διαγόρας μὲν δὴ καὶ τὸ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ γένος δόξης ἐς τοσοῦτο ἀφίκοντο·
Diagoras indeed and his family reached such a height of fame.
§6.7.8ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ Ἀλκαινέτῳ τῷ Θεάντου Λεπρεάτῃ καὶ αὐτῷ καὶ τοῖς παισὶν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι.
There were also Olympic victories for Alkainetos himself, the son of Theantos, of Lepreum, and for his children.
αὐτὸς μέν γε πυκτεύων ὁ Ἀλκαίνετος ἔν τε ἀνδράσι καὶ πρότερον ἔτι ἐπεκράτησεν ἐν παισίν· Ἑλλάνικον δὲ τὸν Ἀλκαινέτου καὶ Θέαντον ἐπὶ πυγμῇ παίδων ἀναγορευθῆναι τὸν μὲν ἐνάτῃ πρὸς ταῖς ὀγδοήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι, τὸν δὲ τῇ ἐφεξῆς ταύτῃ συνέβη τὸν Θέαντον· καί σφισιν ἀνδριάντες ἅπασιν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ κεῖνται.
Alkainetos himself, as a boxer, won among men, and even earlier among boys; and it happened that Hellanikos, the son of Alkainetos, and Theantos were proclaimed for boxing among boys, the former in the eighty-ninth Olympiad, and the latter, Theantos, in the one following it; and statues of all of them are situated in Olympia.
§6.7.9ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἀλκαινέτου τοῖς υἱοῖς Γνάθων τε Διπαιεὺς τῆς Μαιναλέων χώρας καὶ Λυκῖνος ἕστηκεν Ἠλεῖος· κρατῆσαι δὲ Ὀλυμπίασι πυγμῇ παῖδας ὑπῆρξε καὶ τούτοις.
Near the sons of Alkainetos stand Gnathon, of Dipaea in the territory of Maenalus, and Lykinos, an Elean; it was also their lot to win in boxing among boys at Olympia.
Γνάθωνα δὲ καὶ ἐς τὰ μάλιστα, ὅτε ἐνίκησεν, εἶναι νέον τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ φησί· Καλλικλέους δὲ τοῦ Μεγαρέως ποίημα ὁ ἀνδριάς ἐστιν.
The epigram upon Gnathon says that he was extremely young when he won; and his statue is the work of Kallikles of Megara.
§6.7.10ἀνὴρ δὲ ἐκ Στυμφήλου Δρομεὺς ὄνομα, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἔργον τοῦτο ἐπὶ δολίχῳ παρεσχημένος, δύο μὲν ἔσχεν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ νίκας, τοσαύτας δὲ ἄλλας Πυθοῖ καὶ Ἰσθμίων τε τρεῖς καὶ ἐν Νεμέᾳ πέντε.
A man from Stymphalus named Dromeus, who indeed showed this very deed in the long race, had two victories at Olympia, and as many others at Pytho, and three at the Isthmian games, and five at Nemea.
λέγεται δὲ ὡς καὶ κρέας ἐσθίειν ἐπινοήσειε· τέως δὲ τοῖς ἀθληταῖς σιτία τυρὸν ἐκ τῶν ταλάρων εἶναι.
It is said that he was the first to think of eating meat; up to then, the food for athletes was cheese from baskets.
τούτου μὲν δὴ Πυθαγόρας τὴν εἰκόνα, τὴν δὲ ἐφεξῆς ταύτῃ, πένταθλον Ἠλεῖον Πυθοκλέα, Πολύκλειτός ἐστιν εἰργασμένος.
Pythagoras made the statue of this man, while Polykleitos made the one next to it, representing Pythokles, an Elean pentathlete.