§3.1III. 1
ἤδη καὶ κούρῳ παρθένος εὐνάσατο, τέθμιον ὡς ἐκέλευε προνύμφιον ὕπνον ἰαῦσαι ἄρσενι τὴν τᾶλιν παιδὶ σὺν ἀμφιθαλεῖ.
III. 1 Already the maiden had bedded with the boy, as the ritual commanded that the bride should sleep her pre-nuptial sleep with a boy whose parents were both living.
Ἥρην γάρ κοτέ φασικύον, κύον, ἴσχεο, λαιδρὲ θυμέ, σύ γ’ ἀείσῃ καὶ τά περ οὐχ ὁσίη·
For they say that once Hera—dog, dog, hold back, shameless soul! You will sing even of that which is not holy.
ὤναο κάρ〈θ〉’ ἕνεκ’ οὔ τι θεῆς ἴδες ἱερὰ φρικτῆς, ἐξ ἂν ἐπεὶ καὶ τῶν ἤρυγες ἱστορίην.
You have profited greatly because you have not seen the rites of the dread goddess, since you would have spewed forth their story too.
ἡ πολυιδρείη χαλεπὸν κακὸν ὅστις ἀκαρτεῖ γλώσσης· ὡς ἐτεὸν παῖς ὅδε μαῦλιν ἔχει.
Much knowledge is a troublesome evil for one who cannot control his tongue; truly this child has a knife.
ἠῷοι μὲν ἔμελλον ἐν ὕδατι θυμὸν ἀμύξειν οἱ βόες ὀξεῖαν δερκόμενοι δορίδα, δειελινὴν τὴν δ’ εἷλε κακὸς χλόος, εἷλε δε νοῦσος, αἶγας ἐς ἀγριάδας τὴν ἀποπεμπόμεθα, ψευδόμενοι δ’ ἱερὴν φημίζομεν· ἣ τότ’ ἀνιγρὴ τὴν κούρην Ἀ[ίδ]εω μέχρις ἔτηξε δόμων.
In the morning the oxen were about to tear their lives in the water, looking upon the sharp sacrificial blade, but in the afternoon an evil pallor seized her, and a sickness seized her, of the kind we banish to the wild goats, and falsely call "sacred." This distressing illness then wasted the girl to the very gates of Hades.
δεύτερον ἐστόρνυντο τὰ κλισμία, δεύτερον ἡ πα[ῖ]s ἑπτὰ τεταρταίῳ μῆνας ἔκαμνε πυρί.
A second time the couches were strewn, a second time the girl was sick for seven months with a quartan fever.
τὸ τρίτον ἐμνήσαντο γάμου κοτέ, τὸ τρίτον αὖτ[ις Κυδίππην ὀλοὸς κρυμὸς ἐσῳκίσατο.
A third time they bethought themselves of marriage, a third time again a destructive chill settled upon Cydippe.
τέτρατον [ο]ὐκέτ’ ἔμεινε πατὴρ ἐς Δέλφιον ἄρας Φοῖβον· ὁ δ’ ἐννύχιον τοῦτ’ ἔπος ηὐδάσατο·
A fourth time her father did not wait, but set out for Delphian Phoebus; and he spoke this oracle in the night: "A heavy oath to Artemis breaks off your daughter's marriage.
Ἀρτέμιδος τῇ παιδὶ γάμον βαρὺς ὅρκος ἐνικλᾷ, Λύγδαμιν οὐ γὰρ ἐμὴ τῆ〈μος〉 ἔκηδε κάσαις, οὐδ’ ἐν Ἀμυκλαίῳ θρ〈ύ〉ον ἔπλεκεν οὐδ’ ἀπὸ θήρης ἔκλυζεν ποταμῷ λύματα Παρθενίῳ, Δ[ή]λῳ δ’ ἦν ἐπίδημος, Ἀκόντιον ὁππότε σὴ παῖς ὤμοσεν, οὐκ ἄλλον, νυμφίον ἑξέμεναι·
For at that time my sister did not care for Lygdamis, nor did she weave rushes in Amyclae, nor did she wash away the grime from the hunt in the river Parthenius, but she was present in Delos when your daughter swore to have Acontius, and no other, as her bridegroom.
ἁ[κήρ]υξ’ ἀλλ’ ἤν μ’ ἐθέλ〈ῃ〉ς συμφράδμονα θέσθαι, [πά]ντα τελευτήσεις ὅρκια θυγατέρος.
I declare this; but if you wish to make me your counsellor, you will fulfill all your daughter's oaths.
ἄργυρον οὐ μολίβῳ γὰρ Ἀκόντιον ἀλλὰ φαεινῷ ἤλεκτρον χρυσῷ φημί σε μιξέμεναι.
For I tell you that you will mix gold not with lead but with bright electrum, if you marry her to Acontius.
Κοδρείδης σύ γ’ ἄνωθεν ὁ πενθερός, αὐτὰρ ὁ Κεῖος γαμβρὸς Ἀρισταίου [Ζη]νὸς ἀφ’ ἱερ〈έ〉ων Ἰκμίου, οἷσι μέμ [η]λεν ἐπ’ οὔρεος ἀμβώνεσσιν πρηύνειν χαλ[ε]πὴν Μαῖραν ἀνερχομένην, αἰτεῖσθαι τὸ δ’ ἄημα παραὶ Διός, ᾧ τε θαμ〈ι〉νοὶ πλήσσονται λινέαις ὄρτυγες ἐν νεφέλαις.
You, the father-in-law, are a Codrid from above, and the Cean bridegroom is from the priests of Aristaean Zeus Icmius, whose care it is on the mountain peaks to appease the harsh Maira when she rises, and to entreat the breeze from Zeus, by which frequent quails are caught in flaxen nets.
ἦ θεός· αὐτὰρ ὁ Νάξον ἔβη πάλιν, εἴρετο δ’ αὐτὴν κούρην, ἡ δ’ ἀν〈ὰ〉 τῷ πᾶν ἐκάλυψεν ἔπος.
So spoke the god; and he returned to Naxos and questioned the girl herself, and she revealed the whole story.
κἦν αὖ σῶς· ὅ τ[ε] λοιπόν, Ἀκόντιε, σεῖο μέτελθεῖν ἔσται τὴν ἰδίην ἐς Διονυσιάδα.
And she was well again; for the future, Acontius, it will be yours to go to your own Dionysiadas to seek her.
χἠ θεὸς εὐορκεῖτο καὶ ἥλικες αὐτίχ’ ἑταιρης 〈ᾖ〉δον ὑμηναίους οὐκ ἀναβαλλομένους.
And the goddess was well-sworn, and the companions of the bride immediately sang hymeneals that were no longer postponed.
οὔ σε δοκέω τημοῦτος, Ἀκόντιε, νυκτὸς ἐκείνης ἀντί κε, τῇ μίτρης ἥψαο παρθενίης, οὐ σφυρὸν Ἰφίκλειον ἐπιτρέχον ἀσταχύεσσιν οὐδ’ ἃ Κελ〈αι〉νίτης ἐκτεάτιστο Μίδης δέξασθαι, ψήφου δ’ ἂν ἐμῆς ἐπιμάρτυρες εἶεν οἵτινες οὐ χαλεποῦ νήιδές εἰσι θεοῦ.
I do not think that on that night, Acontius, when you touched her maiden girdle, you would have chosen either the ankle of Iphicles that ran over the ears of corn, or the riches that Midas of Celaenae possessed in exchange; and of my vote those would be witnesses who are not ignorant of the non-harsh god.
ἐκ δὲ γάμου κείνοιο μέγ’ οὔνομα μέλλε νέεσθαι· δὴ γὰρ ἔθ’ ὑμέτερον φῦλον Ἀκοντιάδαι πουλύ τι καὶ περίτιμον Ἰουλίδι ναιετάουσιν, Κεῖε, τεὸν δ’ ἡμεῖς ἵμερον ἐκλύομεν τόνδε παρ’ ἀρχαίου Ξενομήδεος ὅς 〈κ〉οτε πᾶσαν νῆσον ἐνὶ μνήμῃ κάτθετο μυθολόγῳ, ἄρχμενος ὡς νύμφῃσι[ν ἐ]ναίετο Κωρυκίῃσι, τὰς ἀπὸ Παρνησσοῦ λῖς ἐδίωξε μέγας, Ὑδροῦσσαν τῷ καί μιν ἐφήμισαν, ὥς τε Κιρω.
And from that marriage a great name was destined to come down; for indeed your lineage, the Acontiadae, still dwell numerous and highly honored in Ioulis, Cean, and we have heard this love of yours from ancient Xenomedes, who once put the whole island into his mythic chronicle, beginning with how it was inhabited by the Corycian nymphs, whom a great lion chased from Parnassus, for which reason they called it Hydroussa, and how Ciro...
. . [· ]ο. . . θυσ[· ]το. . . ᾤκεεν ἐν Καρύαις· [ὥ]ς τέ μιν ἐννάσσαντο τέων Ἀλαλάξιος αἰεὶ Ζεὺς ἐπὶ σαλπίγγων ἱρὰ βοῇ δέχεται Κᾶρες ὁμοῦ Λελέγεσσι, μετ’ οὔνομα δ’ ἄλλο βαλέσθαι Φοίβου καὶ Μελίης ἶνις ἔθηκε Κέως· ἐν δ’ ὕβριν θάνατόν τε κεραύνιον, ἐν δὲ γόητας Τελχῖνας μακάρων τ’ οὐκ ἀλέγοντα θεῶν ἠλεὰ Δημώνακτα γέρων ἐνεθήκατο δέλτ[οις, καὶ γρηῦν Μακελὼ μητέρα Δεξιθέης, ἃς μούνας ὅτε νῆσον ἀνέτρεπον εἵνεκ’ ἀλ[ι]τ[ρῆς ὕβριος ἀσκηθεῖς ἔλλιπον ἀθάνατοι· τέσσαρας ὥς τε πόληας ὁ μὲν τείχισσε Μεγακ[λ]ῆς Καρθαίαν, Χρ〈υ〉σοῦς δ’ Εὔπυλος ἡμιθέης εὔκρηνον πτολίεθρον Ἰουλίδος, αὐτὰρ Ἀκαι.
... dwelt in Caryae; and how it was settled by those whose sacrifices Alalaxios Zeus always receives at the sound of trumpets, the Carians together with the Leleges, and how Ceos, the son of Phoebus and Melia, caused it to take another name; and also the insolence and the death by lightning, and the sorcerer Telchines, and foolish Demonax who cared not for the blessed gods, the old man set down in his tablets, and the old woman Macelo, the mother of Dexithea, whom alone, when they overthrew the island for their wicked insolence, the immortals left unharmed; and how Megacles walled four cities: Carthaea, and Eupylus, son of the demi-goddess Chryso, the well-watered city of Ioulis, while Acai...
. . Ποίησσαν Χαρίτων ἵδρυμ’ ἐυπλοκάμων, ἄστυρον Ἄφραστος δὲ Κ〈ο〉ρῆ[σ]ιον, εἶπε δέ, Κεῖε, ξυγκραθέντ’ αὐταῖς ὀξὺν ἔρωτα σέθεν πρέσβυς ἐτητυμίῃ μεμελημένος, ἔνθεν ὁ παιδὸς μῦθος ἐς ἡμετέρην ἔδραμε Καλλιόπην.
Poeessa, the seat of the fair-haired Graces, and Aphrastus the little town of Coresion; and he told, Cean, of your sharp love that was mixed with these, the old man who was concerned with truth, whence the boy's story ran to our Calliope.
οὐ γὰρ τὰς πολίων οἰκήσιας ᾄσομαι ἤδη· ἔστι γε Πισαίου Ζηνὸς ὄπις π.
For I shall not sing now of the foundations of cities; there is indeed the regard of Pisaean Zeus...
. . ιθην. ἀλλ’ ι. . νησ. κρουτονα. . . . . . . . . . .
but...
ς.
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