§9.29.1ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ἔχοντά ἐστιν οὕτω, θῦσαι δὲ ἐν Ἑλικῶνι Μούσαις πρώτους καὶ ἐπονομάσαι τὸ ὄρος ἱερὸν εἶναι Μουσῶν Ἐφιάλτην καὶ Ὦτον λέγουσιν, οἰκίσαι δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ Ἄσκρην·
These things are indeed so; and they say that Ephialtes and Otos were the first to sacrifice to the Muses on Helicon and to name the mountain sacred to the Muses, and that they also founded Ascra.
καὶ δὴ καὶ Ἡγησίνους ἐπὶ τῷδε ἐν τῇ Ἀτθίδι ἐποίησεν,
"
Ἄσκρῃ δʼ αὖ παρέλεκτο Ποσειδάων ἐνοσίχθων,
ἣ δή οἱ τέκε παῖδα περιπλομένων ἐνιαυτῶν
Οἴοκλον, ὃς πρῶτος μετʼ Ἀλωέος ἔκτισε παίδων
Ἄσκρην, ἥ θʼ Ἑλικῶνος ἔχει πόδα πιδακόεντα. "
Indeed, Hegesinus also wrote concerning this in his *Atthis*: "And with Ascra again lay Poseidon, shaker of the earth, who indeed bore him a son as the years rolled round, Oeoclus, who first with the sons of Aloeus founded Ascra, which holds the spring-abundant foot of Helicon.
§9.29.2ταύτην τοῦ Ἡγησίνου τὴν ποίησιν οὐκ ἐπελεξάμην, ἀλλὰ πρότερον ἄρα ἐκλελοιπυῖα ἦν πρὶν ἢ ἐμέ γενέσθαι· Κάλλιππος δὲ Κορίνθιος ἐν τῇ ἐς Ὀρχομενίους συγγραφῇ μαρτύρια ποιεῖται τῷ λόγῳ τὰ Ἡγησίνου ἔπη, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ ἡμεῖς πεποιήμεθα παρʼ αὐτοῦ Καλλίππου διδαχθέντες.
"This poetry of Hegesinus I did not read, but it had already been lost before I was born; but Callippus of Corinth, in his history of the Orchomenians, adduces the verses of Hegesinus as evidence for his account, and we likewise have made our statement having been instructed by Callippus himself.
Ἄσκρης μὲν δὴ πύργος εἷς ἐπʼ ἐμοῦ καὶ ἄλλο οὐδὲν ἐλείπετο ἐς μνήμην, οἱ δὲ τοῦ Ἀλωέως παῖδες ἀριθμόν τε Μούσας ἐνόμισαν εἶναι τρεῖς καὶ ὀνόματα αὐταῖς ἔθεντο Μελέτην καὶ Μνήμην καὶ Ἀοιδήν.
Of Ascra, indeed, one tower and nothing else was left for remembrance in my time; and the sons of Aloeus believed the Muses to be three in number, and gave them the names of Melete, Mneme, and Aoide.
§9.29.3χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερόν φασι Πίερον Μακεδόνα, ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ Μακεδόσιν ὠνόμασται τὸ ὄρος, τοῦτον ἐλθόντα ἐς Θεσπιὰς ἐννέα τε Μούσας καταστήσασθαι καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα τὰ νῦν μεταθέσθαι σφίσι.
But in a later time they say that Pierus, a Macedonian, after whom also the mountain among the Macedonians is named, came to Thespiae and established nine Muses, and changed their names to those now in use.
ταῦτα δὲ ἐνόμιζεν οὕτως ὁ Πίερος ἢ σοφώτερά οἱ εἶναι φανέντα ἢ κατά τι μάντευμα ἢ παρά του διδαχθεὶς τῶν Θρᾳκῶν· δεξιώτερον γὰρ τά τε ἄλλα ἐδόκει τοῦ Μακεδονικοῦ τὸ ἔθνος εἶναι πάλαι τὸ Θρᾴκιον καὶ οὐχ ὁμοίως ἐς τὰ θεῖα ὀλίγωρον.
Pierus believed these things to be so either because they appeared wiser to him, or in accordance with some oracle, or having been instructed by one of the Thracians; for the Thracian nation in ancient times seemed to be more intelligent in other matters than the Macedonian and not similarly neglectful of divine things.
§9.29.4εἰσὶ δʼ οἳ καὶ αὐτῷ θυγατέρας ἐννέα Πιέρῳ γενέσθαι λέγουσι καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα ἅπερ ταῖς θεαῖς τεθῆναι καὶ ταύταις, καὶ ὅσοι Μουσῶν παῖδες ἐκλήθησαν ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων, θυγατριδοῦς εἶναι σφᾶς Πιέρου·
There are some who say that nine daughters were born to Pierus himself, and that the same names which had been given to the goddesses were given also to these, and that those who were called children of the Muses by the Greeks were grandsons of Pierus by his daughters.
Μίμνερμος δέ, ἐλεγεῖα ἐς τὴν μάχην ποιήσας τὴν Σμυρναίων πρὸς Γύγην τε καὶ Λυδούς, φησὶν ἐν τῷ προοιμίῳ θυγατέρας Οὐρανοῦ τὰς ἀρχαιοτέρας Μούσας, τούτων δὲ ἄλλας νεωτέρας εἶναι Διὸς παῖδας.
But Mimnermus, who composed elegiac verses on the battle of the Smyrnaeans against Gyges and the Lydians, says in his prologue that the older Muses are daughters of Uranus, and that there are other younger ones who are children of Zeus.
§9.29.5ἐν Ἑλικῶνι δὲ πρὸς τὸ ἄλσος ἰόντι τῶν Μουσῶν ἐν ἀριστερᾷ μὲν ἡ Ἀγανίππη πηγή —θυγατέρα δὲ εἶναι τὴν Ἀγανίππην τοῦ Τερμησσοῦ λέγουσι, ῥεῖ δὲ καὶ οὗτος ὁ Τερμησσὸς περὶ τὸν Ἑλικῶνα—, τὴν δὲ εὐθεῖαν ἐρχομένῳ πρὸς τὸ ἄλσος ἔστιν εἰκὼν Εὐφήμης ἐπειργασμένη λίθῳ·
On Helicon, as one goes towards the grove of the Muses, on the left is the spring Aganippe; and they say that Aganippe was the daughter of Termessus, and this Termessus also flows around Helicon.
τροφὸν δὲ εἶναι τὴν Εὐφήμην λέγουσι τῶν Μουσῶν.
To one going straight towards the grove, there is an image of Eupheme carved in stone; and they say that Eupheme was the nurse of the Muses.
§9.29.6ταύτης τε οὖν εἰκὼν καὶ μετʼ αὐτὴν Λίνος ἐστὶν ἐν πέτρᾳ μικρᾷ σπηλαίου τρόπον εἰργασμένῃ· τούτῳ κατὰ ἔτος ἕκαστον πρὸ τῆς θυσίας τῶν Μουσῶν ἐναγίζουσι.
So there is the image of this woman, and after her is Linus in a small rock worked after the manner of a cave; to him every year, before the sacrifice to the Muses, they offer funeral sacrifices.
λέγεται δὲ ὡς ὁ Λίνος οὗτος παῖς μὲν Οὐρανίας εἴη καὶ Ἀμφιμάρου τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος, μεγίστην δὲ τῶν τε ἐφʼ αὑτοῦ καὶ ὅσοι πρότερον ἐγένοντο λάβοι δόξαν ἐπὶ μουσικῇ, καὶ ὡς Ἀπόλλων ἀποκτείνειεν αὐτὸν ἐξισούμενον κατὰ τὴν ᾠδήν.
And it is said that this Linus was the son of Urania and Amphimarus, the son of Poseidon, and that he won the greatest reputation for music among those of his own time and as many as had lived before, and that Apollo killed him because he equaled him in singing.
§9.29.7ἀποθανόντος δὲ τοῦ Λίνου τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ πένθος διῆλθεν ἄρα καὶ ἄχρι τῆς βαρβάρου πάσης, ὡς καὶ Αἰγυπτίοις ᾆσμα γενέσθαι Λίνον· καλοῦσι δὲ τὸ ᾆσμα Αἰγύπτιοι τῇ ἐπιχωρίῳ φωνῇ Μανέρων.
When Linus died, the mourning for him spread indeed even to all the barbarians, so that a song of Linus arose even for the Egyptians; and the Egyptians call the song in their native tongue Maneros.
οἱ δὲ Ἕλλησιν ἔπη ποιήσαντες, Ὅμηρος μέν, ἅτε ᾆσμα Ἕλλησιν ὂν ἐπιστάμενος τοῦ Λίνου τὰ παθήματα, ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως ἔφη τῇ ἀσπίδι ἄλλα τε ἐργάσασθαι τὸν Ἥφαιστον καὶ κιθαρῳδὸν παῖδα ᾄδοντα τὰ ἐς Λίνον· "
τοῖσι δʼ ἐνὶ μέσσοισι πάις φόρμιγγι λιγείῃ
ἱμερόεν κιθάριζε, Λίνον δʼ ὑπὸ καλὸν ἄειδεν· "
Of those who composed verses among the Greeks, Homer, knowing that the song of the sufferings of Linus was familiar to the Greeks, said concerning the shield of Achilles that Hephaestus, among other things, fashioned a boy harping and singing of Linus: "And in their midst a boy with a clear-toned lyre was harping lovely, and sang beautifully of Linus.
§9.29.8Πάμφως δέ, ὃς Ἀθηναίοις τῶν ὕμνων ἐποίησε τοὺς ἀρχαιοτάτους, οὗτος ἀκμάζοντος ἐπὶ τῷ Λίνῳ τοῦ πένθους Οἰτόλινον ἐκάλεσεν αὐτόν.
"And Pamphos, who composed the most ancient of the hymns for the Athenians, called him Oetolinus when the mourning for Linus was at its height.
Σαπφὼ δὲ ἡ Λεσβία τοῦ Οἰτολίνου τὸ ὄνομα ἐκ τῶν ἐπῶν τῶν Πάμφω μαθοῦσα Ἄδωνιν ὁμοῦ καὶ Οἰτόλινον ᾖσεν.
And Sappho of Lesbos, having learned the name of Oetolinus from the verses of Pamphos, sang of Adonis and Oetolinus together.
Θηβαῖοι δὲ λέγουσι παρὰ σφίσι ταφῆναι τὸν Λίνον, καὶ ὡς μετὰ τὸ πταῖσμα τὸ ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν Φίλιππος ὁ Ἀμύντου κατὰ δή τινα ὄψιν ὀνείρατος τὰ ὀστᾶ ἀνελόμενος τοῦ Λίνου κομίσειεν ἐς Μακεδονίαν·
And the Thebans say that Linus was buried among them, and that after the defeat of the Greeks at Chaeronea, Philip, the son of Amyntas, in accordance with some vision in a dream, took up the bones of Linus and carried them to Macedonia.
§9.29.9ἐκεῖνον μὲν δὴ αὖθις ἐξ ἐνυπνίων ἄλλων ὀπίσω τοῦ Λίνου τὰ ὀστᾶ ἐς Θήβας ἀποστεῖλαι, τὰ δὲ ἐπιθήματα τοῦ τάφου, καὶ ὅσα σημεῖα ἄλλα ἦν, ἀνὰ χρόνον φασὶν ἀφανισθῆναι.
They say that he, because of other dreams, sent the bones of Linus back again to Thebes, but that the coverings of the tomb, and whatever other markers there were, disappeared in course of time.
λέγεται δὲ καὶ ἄλλα τοιάδε ὑπὸ Θηβαίων, ὡς τοῦ Λίνου τούτου γένοιτο ὕστερον ἕτερος Λίνος καλούμενος Ἰσμηνίου καὶ ὡς Ἡρακλῆς ἔτι παῖς ὢν ἀποκτείνειεν αὐτὸν διδάσκαλον μουσικῆς ὄντα.
And other such things are said by the Thebans, that after this Linus there was born another Linus called the son of Ismenius, and that Heracles, while still a boy, killed him who was his music teacher.
ἔπη δὲ οὔτε ὁ Ἀμφιμάρου Λίνος οὔτε ὁ τούτου γενόμενος ὕστερον ἐποίησαν· ἢ καὶ ποιηθέντα ἐς τοὺς ἔπειτα οὐκ ἦλθεν.
Neither Linus the son of Amphimarus nor the one who lived after him composed any verses; or if they were composed, they did not come down to posterity.