§7.19.6παύσασθαι δὲ οὕτω λέγονται θύοντες τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι ἀνθρώπους.
And between the temple of Laphria and the altar is built the tomb of Eurypylus. They are said to have ceased in this way sacrificing humans to Artemis.
ἐκέχρητο αὐτοῖς πρότερον ἔτι ἐκ Δελφῶν ὡς βασιλεὺς ξένος παραγενόμενός σφισιν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, ξενικὸν ἅμα ἀγόμενος δαίμονα, τὰ ἐς τὴν θυσίαν τῆς Τρικλαρίας παύσει.
An oracle had already been given to them previously from Delphi, that when a foreign king should arrive at their land, bringing with him a foreign divinity, he would put an end to the sacrifice to Triclaria.
Ἰλίου δὲ ἁλούσης καὶ νεμομένων τὰ λάφυρα τῶν Ἑλλήνων, Εὐρύπυλος ὁ Εὐαίμονος λαμβάνει λάρνακα· Διονύσου δὲ ἄγαλμα ἦν ἐν τῇ λάρνακι, ἔργον μὲν ὥς φασιν Ἡφαίστου, δῶρον δὲ ὑπὸ Διὸς ἐδόθη Δαρδάνῳ.
When Troy was taken and the Greeks were dividing the spoils, Eurypylus the son of Evaemon received a chest; in the chest was an image of Dionysus, a work, as they say, of Hephaestus, and it had been given as a gift by Zeus to Dardanus.
§7.19.7λέγονται δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι λόγοι δύο ἐς αὐτήν, ὡς ὅτε ἔφυγεν Αἰνείας, ἀπολίποι ταύτην τὴν λάρνακα· οἱ δὲ ῥιφῆναί φασιν αὐτὴν ὑπὸ Κασσάνδρας συμφορὰν τῷ εὑρόντι Ἑλλήνων.
And two other stories are told about it: one, that when Aeneas fled, he left this chest behind; others say that it was thrown away by Cassandra to be a misfortune to whichever of the Greeks should find it.
ἤνοιξε δʼ οὖν ὁ Εὐρύπυλος τὴν λάρνακα καὶ εἶδε τὸ ἄγαλμα καὶ αὐτίκα ἦν ἔκφρων μετὰ τὴν θέαν· τὰ μὲν δὴ πλείονα ἐμαίνετο, ὀλιγάκις δὲ ἐγίνετο ἐν ἑαυτῷ.
However, Eurypylus opened the chest and saw the image, and immediately after the sight he was out of his mind; indeed, for the greater part of the time he was mad, and only rarely did he come to himself.
ἅτε δὲ οὕτω διακείμενος οὐκ ἐς τὴν Θεσσαλίαν τὸν πλοῦν ἐποιεῖτο, ἀλλʼ ἐπί τε Κίρραν καὶ ἐς τὸν ταύτῃ κόλπον· ἀναβὰς δὲ ἐς Δελφοὺς ἐχρᾶτο ὑπὲρ τῆς νόσου.
Since he was in this state, he did not make his voyage to Thessaly, but to Cirrha and the gulf there; and going up to Delphi he consulted the oracle about his madness.
§7.19.8καὶ αὐτῷ γενέσθαι λέγουσι μάντευμα, ἔνθα ἂν ἐπιτύχῃ θύουσιν ἀνθρώποις θυσίαν ξένην, ἐνταῦθα ἱδρύσασθαί τε τὴν λάρνακα καὶ αὐτὸν οἰκῆσαι.
And they say that an oracle was given to him: that wherever he should hit upon people offering a strange sacrifice, there he should establish the chest and himself dwell.
ὁ μὲν δὴ ἄνεμος τὰς ναῦς τοῦ Εὐρυπύλου κατήνεγκεν ἐπὶ τὴν πρὸς τῇ Ἀρόῃ θάλασσαν· ἐκβὰς δὲ ἐς τὴν γῆν καταλαμβάνει παῖδα καὶ παρθένον ἐπὶ τὸν βωμὸν τῆς Τρικλαρίας ἠγμένους.
Now the wind brought the ships of Eurypylus down to the sea by Aroe; and having gone ashore, he found a boy and a maiden being led to the altar of Triclaria.
καὶ ὁ μὲν ἔμελλεν οὐ χαλεπῶς συνήσειν τὰ ἐς τὴν θυσίαν· ἀφίκοντο δὲ ἐς μνήμην καὶ οἱ ἐπιχώριοι τοῦ χρησμοῦ, βασιλέα τε ἰδόντες ὃν οὔπω πρότερον ἑωράκεσαν καὶ ἐς τὴν λάρνακα ὑπενόησαν ὡς εἴη τις ἐν αὐτῇ θεός.
And he was likely to understand without difficulty the matter of the sacrifice; and the locals also remembered the oracle, seeing a king whom they had never seen before, and they suspected concerning the chest that there was some god in it.
§7.19.9καὶ οὕτω τῷ Εὐρυπύλῳ τε ἡ νόσος καὶ τοῖς ἐνταῦθα ἀνθρώποις τὰ ἐς τὴν θυσίαν ἐπαύσθη, τό τε ὄνομα ἐτέθη τὸ νῦν τῷ ποταμῷ Μείλιχος.
And in this way Eurypylus was cured of his madness and for the people here the matter of the sacrifice ceased, and the river received its present name, Meilichos.
ἔγραψαν δὲ ἤδη τινὲς οὐ τῷ Θεσσαλῷ συμβάντα Εὐρυπύλῳ τὰ εἰρημένα, ἀλλὰ Εὐρύπυλον Δεξαμενοῦ παῖδα τοῦ ἐν Ὠλένῳ βασιλεύσαντος ἐθέλουσιν ἅμα Ἡρακλεῖ στρατεύσαντα ἐς Ἴλιον λαβεῖν παρὰ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους τὴν λάρνακα· τὰ δὲ ἄλλα κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ εἰρήκασι καὶ οὗτοι.
But some have already written that the things related did not happen to the Thessalian Eurypylus, but they will have it that Eurypylus, the son of Dexamenus who reigned in Olenus, having campaigned with Heracles against Ilium, received the chest from Heracles; and in other respects these too have told the same story.
§7.19.10ἐγὼ δὲ οὔτε Ἡρακλέα ἀγνοῆσαι τὰ ἐς τὴν λάρνακα εἰ δὴ τοιαῦτα ἦν πείθομαι οὔτε τὰ ἐς αὐτὴν ἐπιστάμενος δοκεῖ μοί ποτε ἂν δοῦναι δῶρον συμμαχήσαντι ἀνδρί· οὔτε μὴν οἱ Πατρεῖς ἄλλον τινὰ ἢ τὸν Εὐαίμονος ἔχουσιν Εὐρύπυλον ἐν μνήμῃ, καί οἱ καὶ ἐναγίζουσιν ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔτος, ἐπειδὰν τῷ Διονύσῳ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἄγωσι.
For my part, I am not persuaded either that Heracles was ignorant of the contents of the chest, if indeed they were such as described, nor, if he did know about them, does it seem to me that he would ever have given it as a gift to a man who had fought alongside him; nor indeed do the people of Patrae preserve the memory of any other Eurypylus than the son of Evaemon, to whom they also offer sacrifices as to a hero every year, when they celebrate the festival to Dionysus.