Delphi Complete Works of Pausanias

by Pausanias

  [3] Ἀριστεὺς δὲ Ἀργεῖος δολίχου μὲν νίκην ἔσχεν αὐτός, πάλης δὲ ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Ἀριστέως Χείμων: ἑστήκασι μὲν δὴ ἐγγὺς ἀλλήλων, ἐποίησε δὲ τὸν μὲν Παντίας Χῖος παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ δεδιδαγμένος Σωστράτῳ, αἱ δὲ εἰκόνες τοῦ Χείμωνος ἔργον ἐστὶν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν τῶν δοκιμωτάτων Ναυκύδους, ἥ τε ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ ἡ ἐς τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Εἰρήνης τὸ ἐν Ῥώμῃ κομισθεῖσα ἐξ Ἄργους. λέγεται δὲ ὡς Ταυροσθένην καταπαλαίσειεν ὁ Χείμων τὸν Αἰγινήτην καὶ ὡς Ταυροσθένης τῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι τῇ ἐφεξῆς καταβάλοι τοὺς ἐσελθόντας ἐς τὴν πάλην καὶ ὡς ἐοικὸς Ταυροσθένει φάσμα ἐπ᾽ ἐκείνης τῆς ἡμέρας ἐν Αἰγίνῃ φανὲν ἀπαγγείλειε τὴν νίκην.

  [9.3] Aristeus of Argos himself won a victory in the long-race, while his father Cheimon won the wrestling-match. They stand near to each other, the statue of Aristeus being by Pantias of Chios, the pupil of his father Sostratus. Besides the statue of Cheimon at Olympia there is another in the temple of Peace at Rome, brought there from Argos. Both are in my opinion among the most glorious works of Naucydes. It is also told how Cheimon overthrew at wrestling Taurosthenes of Aegina, how Taurosthenes at the next Festival overthrew all who entered for the wrestling-match, and how a wraith like Taurosthenes appeared on that day in Aegina and announced the victory.

  [4] Φίλλην δὲ Ἠλεῖον κρατήσαντα παῖδας πάλῃ Σπαρτιάτης Κρατῖνος ἐποίησε.

  τὰ δὲ ἐς τὸ ἅρμα τὸ Γέλωνος οὐ κατὰ ταὐτὰ δοξάζειν ἐμοί τε παρίστατο καὶ τοῖς πρότερον ἢ ἐγὼ τὰ ἐς αὐτὸ εἰρηκόσιν, οἳ Γέλωνος τοῦ ἐν Σικελίᾳ τυραννήσαντός φασιν ἀνάθημα εἶναι τὸ ἅρμα. ἐπίγραμμα μὲν δή ἐστιν αὐτῷ Γέλωνα Δεινομένους ἀναθεῖναι Γελῷον, καὶ ὁ χρόνος τούτῳ τῷ Γέλωνί ἐστι τῆς νίκης τρίτη πρὸς τὰς ἑβδομήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδας:

  [9.4] The statue of Philles of Elis, who won the boys’ wrestling-match, was made by the Spartan Cratinus.

  As regards the chariot of Gelon, I did not come to the same opinion about it as my predecessors, who hold that the chariot is an offering of the Gelon who became tyrant in Sicily. Now there is an inscription on the chariot that it was dedicated by Gelon of Gela, son of Deinomenes, and the date of the victory of this Gelon is the seventy-third Festival.

  [5] Γέλων δὲ ὁ Σικελίας τυραννήσας Συρακούσας ἔσχεν Ὑβριλίδου μὲν Ἀθήνῃσιν ἄρχοντος, δευτέρῳ δὲ ἔτει τῆς δευτέρας καὶ ἑβδομηκοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν Τισικράτης ἐνίκα Κροτωνιάτης στάδιον. δῆλα οὖν ὡς Συρακούσιον ἤδη καὶ οὐ Γελῷον ἀναγορεύειν αὑτὸν ἔμελλεν: ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἰδιώτης εἴη ἄν τις ὁ Γέλων οὗτος, πατρός τε ὁμωνύμου τῷ τυράννῳ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁμώνυμος. Γλαυκίας δὲ Αἰγινήτης τό τε ἅρμα καὶ αὐτῷ τῷ Γέλωνι ἐποίησε τὴν εἰκόνα.

  [9.5] But the Gelon who was tyrant of Sicily took possession of Syracuse when Hybrilides was archon at Athens, in the second year of the seventy-second Olympiad, when Tisicrates of Croton won the foot-race. Plainly, therefore, he would have announced himself as of Syracuse, not Gela. The fact is that this Gelon must be a private person, of the same name as the tyrant, whose father had the same name as the tyrant’s father. It was Glaucias of Aegina who made both the chariot and the portrait-statue of Gelon.

  [6] τῇ δὲ Ὀλυμπιάδι τῇ πρὸ ταύτης Κλεομήδην φασὶν Ἀστυπαλαιέα ὡς Ἴκκῳ πυκτεύων ἀνδρὶ Ἐπιδαυρίῳ τὸν Ἴκκον ἀποκτείνειεν ἐν τῇ μάχῃ, καταγνωσθεὶς δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλανοδικῶν ἄδικα εἰργάσθαι καὶ ἀφῃρημένος τὴν νίκην ἔκφρων ἐγένετο ὑπὸ τῆς λύπης καὶ ἀνέστρεψε μὲν ἐς Ἀστυπάλαιαν, διδασκαλείῳ δ᾽ ἐπιστὰς ἐνταῦθα ὅσον ἑξήκοντα ἀριθμὸν παίδων ἀνατρέπει τὸν κίονα ὃς τὸν ὄροφον ἀνεῖχεν.

  [9.6] At the Festival previous to this it is said that Cleomedes of Astypalaea killed Iccus of Epidaurus during a boxing-match. On being convicted by the umpires of foul play and being deprived of the prize he became mad through grief and returned to Astypalaea. Attacking a school there of about sixty children he pulled down the pillar which held up the roof.

  [7] ἐμπεσόντος δὲ τοῦ ὀρόφου τοῖς παισί, καταλιθούμενος ὑπὸ τῶν ἀστῶν κατέφυγεν ἐς Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερόν: ἐσβάντος δὲ ἐς κιβωτὸν κειμένην ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ καὶ ἐφελκυσαμένου τὸ ἐπίθημα, κάματον ἐς ἀνωφελὲς οἱ Ἀστυπαλαιεῖς ἔκαμνον ἀνοίγειν τὴν κιβωτὸν πειρώμενοι: τέλος δὲ τὰ ξύλα τῆς κιβωτοῦ καταρρήξαντες, ὡς οὔτε ζῶντα Κλεομήδην οὔτε τεθνεῶτα εὕρισκον, ἀποστέλλουσιν ἄνδρας ἐς Δελφοὺς ἐρησομένους ὁποῖα ἐς Κλεομήδην τὰ συμβάντα ἦν.

  [9.7] This fell upon the children, and Cleomedes, pelted with stones by the citizens, took refuge in the sanctuary of Athena. He entered a chest standing in the sanctuary and drew down the lid. The Astypalaeans toiled in vain in their attempts to open the chest. At last, however, they broke open the boards of the chest, but found no Cleomedes, either alive or dead. So they sent envoys to Delphi to ask what had happened to Cleomedes.

  [8] τούτοις χρῆσαι τὴν Πυθίαν φασίν:”ὕστατος ἡρώων Κλεομήδης Ἀστυπαλαιεύς,

  ὃν θυσίαις τιμᾶθ᾽ ἅτε μηκέτι θνητὸν ἐόντα.

  “Κλεομήδει μὲν οὖν Ἀστυπαλαιεῖς ἀπὸ τούτου τιμὰς ὡς ἥρωι νέμουσι:

  [9.8] The response given by the Pythian priestess was, they say, as follows:–

  Last of heroes is Cleomedes of Astypalaea;

  Honor him with sacrifices as being no longer a mortal.

  So from this time have the Astypalaeans paid honors to Cleomedes as to a hero.

  [9] παρὰ δὲ τοῦ Γέλωνος τὸ ἅρμα ἀνάκειται Φίλων, τέχνη τοῦ Αἰγινήτου Γλαυκίου. τούτῳ τῷ Φίλωνι Σιμωνίδης ὁ Λεωπρέπους ἐλεγεῖον δεξιώτατον ἐποίησε: “πατρὶς μὲν Κόρκυρα, Φίλων δ᾽ ὄνομ᾽: εἰμὶ δὲ Γλαύκου

  υἱὸς καὶ νικῶ πὺξ δύ᾽ Ὀλυμπιάδας.

  “ἀνάκειται καὶ Μαντινεὺς Ἀγαμήτωρ, κρατήσας πυγμῇ παῖδας.

  [9.9] By the side of the chariot of Gelon is dedicated a statue of Philon, the work of the Aeginetan Glaucias. About this Philon Simonides the son of Leoprepes composed a very neat elegiac couplet:–

  My fatherland is Corcyra, and my name is Philon; I am

  The son of Glaucus, and I won two Olympic victories for boxing.

  There is also a statue of Agametor of Mantineia, who beat the boys at boxing.

  10. ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖς κατειλεγμένοις ἕστηκεν ὁ Καρύστιος Γλαῦκος: εἶναι δέ φασι
ν ἐξ Ἀνθηδόνος τῆς Βοιωτῶν τὸ ἄνωθεν αὐτὸν γένος ἀπὸ Γλαύκου τοῦ ἐν θαλάσσῃ δαίμονος. πατρὸς δὲ οὗτος ὁ Καρύστιος ἦν Δημύλου, καὶ γῆν φασιν αὐτὸν κατ᾽ ἀρχὰς ἐργάζεσθαι: ἐκπεσοῦσαν δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἀρότρου τὴν ὕνιν πρὸς τὸ ἄροτρον καθήρμοσε τῇ χειρὶ ἀντὶ σφύρας χρώμενος, καί πως

  [10.1] X. Next to those that I have enumerated stands Glaucus of Carystus. Legend has it that he was by birth from Anthedon in Boeotia, being descended from Glaucus the sea-deity. This Carystian was a son of Demylus, and they say that to begin with he worked as a farmer. The ploughshare one day fell out of the plough, and he fitted it into its place, using his hand as a hammer;

  [2] ἐθεάσατο ὁ Δημύλος τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ παιδὸς ποιούμενον καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ πυκτεύσοντα ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν αὐτὸν ἀνήγαγεν. ἔνθα δὴ ὁ Γλαῦκος ἅτε οὐκ ἐμπείρως ἔχων τῆς μάχης ἐτιτρώσκετο ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνταγωνιζομένων, καὶ ἡνίκα πρὸς τὸν λειπόμενον ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπύκτευεν, ἀπαγορεύειν ὑπὸ πλήθους τῶν τραυμάτων ἐνομίζετο: καί οἱ τὸν πατέρα βοῆσαί φασιν ‘ὦ παῖ τὴν ἀπ᾽ ἀρότρου’. οὕτω γε δὴ βιαιοτέραν ἐς τὸν ἀνταγωνιζόμενον ἐνεγκὼν τὴν πληγὴν αὐτίκα εἶχε τὴν νίκην.

  [10.2] Demylus happened to be a spectator of his son’s performance, and thereupon brought him to Olympia to box. There Glaucus, inexperienced in boxing, was wounded by his antagonists, and when he was boxing with the last of them he was thought to be fainting from the number of his wounds. Then they say that his father called out to him, “Son, the plough touch.” So he dealt his opponent a more violent blow which forthwith brought him the victory.

  [3] στεφάνους δὲ λέγεται καὶ ἄλλους Πύθια μὲν δὶς λαβεῖν, Νεμείων δὲ καὶ Ἰσθμίων ὀκτάκις ἐν ἑκατέρῳ ἀγῶνι. τοῦ

  Γλαύκου δὲ τὴν εἰκόνα ἀνέθηκε μὲν ὁ παῖς αὐτοῦ, Γλαυκίας δὲ Αἰγινήτης ἐποίησε: σκιαμαχοῦντος δὲ ὁ ἀνδριὰς παρέχεται σχῆμα, ὅτι ὁ Γλαῦκος ἦν ἐπιτηδειότατος τῶν κατ᾽ αὐτὸν χειρονομῆσαι πεφυκώς. ἀποθανόντα δὲ οἱ Καρύστιοι ταφῆναί φασιν αὐτὸν ἐν νήσῳ καλουμένῃ Γλαύκου καὶ ἐς ἡμᾶς ἔτι.

  [10.3] He is said to have won other crowns besides, two at Pytho, eight at the Nemean and eight at the Isthmian games. The statue of Glaucus was set up by his son, while Glaucias of Aegina made it. The statue represents a figure sparring, as Glaucus was the best exponent of the art of all his contemporaries. When he died the Carystians, they say, buried him in the island still called the island of Glaucus.

  [4] Δαμαρέτῳ δὲ Ἡραιεῖ υἱῷ τε τοῦ Δαμαρέτου καὶ υἱωνῷ δύο ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ γεγόνασιν ἑκάστῳ νῖκαι, Δαμαρέτῳ μὲν πέμπτῃ ἐπὶ ταῖς ἑξήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι, ὅτε ἐνομίσθη πρῶτον ὁ τοῦ ὁπλίτου δρόμος, καὶ ὡσαύτως τῇ ἐφεξῆς — πεποίηται ὁ ἀνδριὰς ἀσπίδα τε κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἔχων τοῖς ἐφ᾽ ἡμῶν καὶ κράνος ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ καὶ κνημῖδας ἐπὶ τοῖς ποσί: ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ἀνὰ χρόνον ὑπό τε Ἠλείων καὶ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων τῶν ἄλλων ἀφῃρέθη τοῦ δρόμου — , Θεοπόμπῳ δὲ τῷ Δαμαρέτου καὶ αὖθις ἐκείνου παιδὶ ὁμωνύμῳ ἐπὶ πεντάθλῳ, Θεοπόμπῳ δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ πάλης ἐγένοντο αἱ νῖκαι.

  [10.4] Damaretus of Heraea, his son and his grandson, each won two victories at Olympia. Those of Damaretus were gained at the sixty-fifth Festival (at which the race in full armour was instituted) and also at the one succeeding. His statue shows him, not only carrying the shield that modern competitors have, but also wearing a helmet on his head and greaves on his legs. In course of time the helmet and greaves were taken from the armour of competitors by both the Eleans and the Greeks generally. Theopompus, son of Damaretus, won his victories in the pentathlum, and his son Theopompus the second, named after his father, won his in the wrestling-match.

  [5] τὴν δὲ εἰκόνα Θεοπόμπου μὲν τοῦ παλαίσαντος τὸν ποιήσαντα οὐκ ἴσμεν, τὰς δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ πάππου φησὶ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα Εὐτελίδα τε εἶναι καὶ Χρυσοθέμιδος Ἀργείων: οὐ μὴν παρ᾽ ὅτῳ γε ἐδιδάχθησαν δεδήλωκεν, ἔχει γὰρ δὴ οὕτως:”Εὐτελίδας καὶ Χρυσόθεμις τάδε ἔργα τέλεσσαν

  Ἀργεῖοι, τέχναν εἰδότες ἐκ προτέρων.

  “

  Ἴκκος δὲ ὁ Νικολαΐδα Ταραντῖνος τόν τε Ὀλυμπικὸν στέφανον ἔσχεν ἐπὶ πεντάθλῳ καὶ ὕστερον γυμναστὴς ἄριστος λέγεται τῶν ἐφ᾽ αὑτοῦ γενέσθαι:

  [10.5] Who made the statue of Theopompus the wrestler we do not know, but those of his father and grandfather are said by the inscription to be by Eutelidas and Chrysothemis, who were Argives. It does not, however, declare the name of their teacher, but runs as follows:–

  Eutelidas and Chrysothemis made these works,

  Argives, who learnt their art from those who lived before.

  Iccus the son of Nicolaidas of Tarentum won the Olympic crown in the pentathlum, and afterwards is said to have become the best trainer of his day.

  [6] μετὰ δὲ Ἴκκον καταπαλαίσας παῖδας Παντάρκης ἕστηκεν Ἠλεῖος ὁ ἐρώμενος Φειδίου. ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ Παντάρκει Κλεοσθένους ἐστὶν ἅρμα ἀνδρὸς Ἐπιδαμνίου: τοῦτο ἔργον μέν ἐστιν Ἀγελάδα, ἕστηκε δὲ ὄπισθεν τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς μάχης τῆς Πλαταιᾶσιν ἀνατεθέντος ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων. ἐνίκα μὲν δὴ τὴν ἕκτην Ὀλυμπιάδα καὶ ἑξηκοστὴν ὁ Κλεοσθένης, ἀνέθηκε δὲ ὁμοῦ τοῖς ἵπποις αὑτοῦ τε εἰκόνα καὶ τὸν ἡνίοχον.

  [10.6] After Iccus stands Pantarces the Elean, beloved of Pheidias, who beat the boys at wrestling. Next to Pantarces is the chariot of Cleosthenes, a man of Epidamnus. This is the work of Ageladas, and it stands behind the Zeus dedicated by the Greeks from the spoil of the battle of Plataea. Cleosthenes’ victory occurred at the sixty-sixth Festival, and together with the statues of his horses he dedicated a statue of himself and one of his charioteer.

  [7] ἐπιγέγραπται δὲ καὶ τῶν ἵππων τὰ ὀνόματα Φοῖνιξ καὶ Κόραξ, ἑκατέρωθεν δὲ οἱ παρὰ τὸ ζυγόν, κατὰ μὲν τὰ δεξιὰ Κνακίας, ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀριστερᾷ Σάμος: καὶ ἐλεγεῖον τόδε ἐστὶν ἐπὶ τῷ ἅρματι:”Κλεοσθένης μ᾽ ἀνέθηκεν ὁ Πόντιος ἐξ Ἐπιδάμνου,

  νικήσας ἵπποις καλὸν ἀγῶνα Διός.

  “

  [10.7] There are inscribed the names of the horses, Phoenix and Corax, and on either side are the horses by the yoke, on the right Cnacias, on the left Samus. This inscription in elegiac verse is on the chariot:–

  Cleosthenes, son of Pontis, a native of Epidamnus, dedicated me
r />   After winning with his horses a victory in the glorious games of Zeus.

  [8] τῶν δὲ ἱπποτροφησάντων ἐν Ἕλλησι πρῶτος ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν εἰκόνα ἀνέθηκεν ὁ Κλεοσθένης οὗτος. τὰ γὰρ Μιλτιάδου τοῦ Ἀθηναίου καὶ Εὐαγόρου τοῦ Λάκωνος ἀναθήματα, τοῦ μὲν ἅρματά ἐστιν, οὐ μὴν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τοῖς ἅρμασιν Εὐαγόρας: τὰ Μιλτιάδου δέ, ὁποῖα ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἀνέθηκεν, ἑτέρωθι δὴ δηλώσω τοῦ λόγου. Ἐπιδάμνιοι δὲ χώραν μὲν ἥνπερ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς, πόλιν δὲ οὐ τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἐπὶ ἡμῶν ἔχουσιν, ἐκείνης δὲ ἀφεστηκυῖαν ὀλίγον: ὄνομα δὲ τῇ πόλει τῇ νῦν Δυρράχιον ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ.

  [10.8] This Cleosthenes was the first of those who bred horses in Greece to dedicate his statue at Olympia. For the offering of Evagoras the Laconian consists of the chariot without a figure of Evagoras himself; the offerings of Miltiades the Athenian, which he dedicated at Olympia, I will describe in another part of my story. The Epidamnians occupy the same territory to-day as they did at first, but the modern city is not the ancient one, being at a short distance from it. The modern city is called Dyrrhachium from its founder.

  [9] Λυκῖνον δὲ Ἡραιέα καὶ Ἐπικράδιον Μαντινέα καὶ Τέλλωνα Ὀρεσθάσιον καὶ Ἠλεῖον Ἀγιάδαν ἐν παισὶν ἀνελομένους νίκας, Λυκῖνον μὲν δρόμου, τοὺς δὲ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ κατειλεγμένους πυγμῆς, Ἐπικράδιον μὲν καὶ Ἀγιάδαν, τὸν μὲν αὐτῶν Πτόλιχος Αἰγινήτης ἐποίησε, τὸν δὲ Ἀγιάδαν Σήραμβος, γένος καὶ οὗτος Αἰγινήτης: Λυκίνου δέ ἐστιν ὁ ἀνδριὰς Κλέωνος τέχνη: τὸν δὲ Τέλλωνα ὅστις εἰργάσατο, οὐ μνημονεύουσιν.