§9.35.1τὸν δὲ Ἐτεοκλέα λέγουσιν οἱ Βοιωτοὶ Χάρισιν ἀνθρώπων θῦσαι πρῶτον.
The Boeotians say that Eteocles was the first of men to sacrifice to the Graces.
καὶ ὅτι μὲν τρεῖς εἶναι Χάριτας κατεστήσατο ἴσασιν, ὀνόματα δὲ οἷα ἔθετο αὐταῖς οὐ μνημονεύουσιν· ἐπεὶ Λακεδαιμόνιοί γε εἶναι Χάριτας δύο καὶ Λακεδαίμονα ἱδρύσασθαι τὸν Ταϋγέτης φασὶν αὐτὰς καὶ ὀνόματα θέσθαι Κλήταν καὶ Φαένναν.
And that he established the Graces to be three they know, but what names he gave them they do not remember; since the Lacedaemonians indeed say that the Graces are two, and that Lacedaemon, the son of Taygete, established them and gave them the names Cleta and Phaenna.
§9.35.2ἐοικότα μὲν δὴ Χάρισιν ὀνόματα καὶ ταῦτα, ἐοικότα δὲ καὶ παρʼ Ἀθηναίοις· τιμῶσι γὰρ ἐκ παλαιοῦ καὶ Ἀθηναῖοι Χάριτας Αὐξὼ καὶ Ἡγεμόνην.
These names indeed are appropriate to the Graces, and no less appropriate are those among the Athenians; for the Athenians also from of old worship as Graces Auxo and Hegemone.
τὸ γὰρ τῆς Καρποῦς ἐστὶν οὐ Χάριτος ἀλλὰ Ὥρας ὄνομα· τῇ δὲ ἑτέρᾳ τῶν Ὡρῶν νέμουσιν ὁμοῦ τῇ Πανδρόσῳ τιμὰς οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι, Θαλλὼ τὴν θεὸν ὀνομάζοντες.
For the name of Carpo belongs not to a Grace but to a Hora (Season); and the Athenians assign honors to the other of the Horae along with Pandrosos, calling the goddess Thallo.
§9.35.3παρὰ δὲ Ἐτεοκλέους τοῦ Ὀρχομενίου μαθόντες τρισὶν ἤδη νομίζομεν Χάρισιν εὔχεσθαι· καὶ Ἀγγελίων τε καὶ Τεκταῖος†ὅσοι γε Διονύσου †τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα ἐργασάμενοι Δηλίοις τρεῖς ἐποίησαν ἐπὶ τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ Χάριτας· καὶ Ἀθήνῃσι πρὸ τῆς ἐς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἐσόδου Χάριτές εἰσι καὶ αὗται τρεῖς, παρὰ δὲ αὐταῖς τελετὴν ἄγουσιν ἐς τοὺς πολλοὺς ἀπόρρητον.
But having learned from Eteocles of Orchomenus, we now make it our custom to pray to three Graces; and both Angelion and Tectaeus, when making the statue of Apollo for the Delians, made three Graces upon his hand; and at Athens, before the entrance to the Acropolis, there are Graces, and these also are three, beside whom they perform a ritual kept secret from the multitude.
§9.35.4Πάμφως μὲν δὴ πρῶτος ὧν ἴσμεν ᾖσεν ἐς Χάριτας, πέρα δὲ οὔτε ἀριθμοῦ πέρι οὔτε ἐς τὰ ὀνόματά ἐστιν οὐδὲν αὐτῷ πεποιημένον· Ὅμηρος δὲ—ἐμνημόνευσε γὰρ Χαρίτων καὶ οὗτος—τὴν μὲν Ἡφαίστου γυναῖκα εἶναι λέγει καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῇ τίθεται Χάριν, Πασιθέας δὲ εἶναί φησιν ἐραστὴν Ὕπνον, ἐν δὲ Ὕπνου τοῖς λόγοις τὸ ἔπος ἐποίησεν
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ἦ μέν μοι δώσειν Χαρίτων μίαν ὁπλοτεράων.
Pamphos indeed was the first whom we know to have sung of the Graces, but beyond this he made no mention in his poetry either of their number or of their names; while Homer—for he too mentioned the Graces—says that one is the wife of Hephaestus and gives her the name of Grace, and says that Hypnos is a lover of Pasithea, and in the words of Hypnos he composed the verse: "Verily to give me one of the younger Graces.
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τούτου δὲ ἕνεκα ὑπόνοια δὴ παρέστη τισὶν ὡς Χάριτας ἄρα καὶ πρεσβυτέρας οἶδεν ἄλλας Ὅμηρος.
"For this reason, a suspicion arose in some that Homer must have known of other, older Graces as well.
§9.35.5Ἡσίοδος δὲ ἐν Θεογονίᾳ—προσιέσθω δὲ ὅτῳ φίλον τὴν Θεογονίαν—, ἐν δʼ οὖν τῇ ποιήσει ταύτῃ τὰς Χάριτάς φησιν εἶναι Διός τε καὶ Εὐρυνόμης καί σφισιν ὀνόματα Εὐφροσύνην τε καὶ Ἀγλαΐαν εἶναι καὶ Θαλίαν.
And Hesiod in the Theogony—let anyone accept the Theogony who pleases—says, in this poetry at any rate, that the Graces are daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, and that their names are Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and Thalia.
κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὲ ἐν ἔπεσίν ἐστι τοῖς Ὀνομακρίτου.
And it is the same in the verses of Onomacritus.
Ἀντίμαχος δὲ οὔτε ἀριθμὸν Χαρίτων οὔτε ὀνόματα εἰπὼν Αἴγλης εἶναι θυγατέρας καὶ Ἡλίου φησὶν αὐτάς.
But Antimachus, while mentioning neither the number nor the names of the Graces, says that they are daughters of Aegle and Helios (the Sun).
Ἑρμησιάνακτι δὲ τῷ τὰ ἐλεγεῖα γράψαντι τοσόνδε οὐ κατὰ τὴν τῶν πρότερον δόξαν ἐστὶν αὐτῷ πεποιημένον, ὡς ἡ Πειθὼ Χαρίτων εἴη καὶ αὐτὴ μία.
And Hermesianax, the writer of elegiac poetry, has composed a passage not in agreement with the opinion of those before him, namely, that Peitho also is one of the Graces.
§9.35.6ὅστις δὲ ἦν ἀνθρώπων ὁ γυμνὰς πρῶτος Χάριτας ἤτοι πλάσας ἢ γραφῇ μιμησάμενος, οὐχ οἷόν τε ἐγένετο πυθέσθαι με, ἐπεὶ τά γε ἀρχαιότερα ἐχούσας ἐσθῆτα οἵ τε πλάσται καὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἐποίουν οἱ ζωγράφοι· καὶ Σμυρναίοις τοῦτο μὲν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῶν Νεμέσεων ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων χρυσοῦ Χάριτες ἀνάκεινται, τέχνη Βουπάλου, τοῦτο δέ σφισιν ἐν τῷ Ὠιδείῳ Χάριτός ἐστιν εἰκών, Ἀπελλοῦ γραφή, Περγαμηνοῖς δὲ ὡσαύτως ἐν τῷ Ἀττάλου θαλάμῳ, Βουπάλου καὶ αὗται· §9.35.7καὶ πρὸς τῷ ὀνομαζομένῳ Πυθίῳ Χάριτες καὶ ἐνταῦθά εἰσι Πυθαγόρου γράψαντος Παρίου· Σωκράτης τε ὁ Σωφρονίσκου πρὸ τῆς ἐς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν ἐσόδου Χαρίτων εἰργάσατο ἀγάλματα Ἀθηναίοις.
But who of men was the first to represent the Graces naked, whether in sculpture or in painting, I was not able to discover, since in older times both sculptors and likewise painters represented them with clothing; and for the Smyrnaeans, on the one hand, golden Graces are dedicated in the sanctuary of the Nemeses above the cult statues, the work of Bupalus, and on the other hand, they have in their Music Hall (Odeum) a picture of a Grace, a painting by Apelles; and for the Pergamenes likewise, in the chamber of Attalus, there are these also, by Bupalus; and near the temple called the Pythium, there are Graces here too, painted by Pythagoras of Paros; and Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, made statues of the Graces for the Athenians before the entrance to the Acropolis.
καὶ ταῦτα μέν ἐστιν ὁμοίως ἅπαντα ἐν ἐσθῆτι, οἱ δὲ ὕστερον— οὐκ οἶδα ἐφʼ ὅτῳ—μεταβεβλήκασι τὸ σχῆμα αὐταῖς· Χάριτας γοῦν οἱ κατʼ ἐμὲ ἔπλασσόν τε καὶ ἔγραφον γυμνάς.
And these are all likewise in clothing, but later artists—for what reason I do not know—altered their appearance; at any rate, those of my time sculptured and painted the Graces naked.