CXII Provocantes inter se qui cum quo dimicarunt
Menelaus cum Alexandro: Alexandrum Venus eripuit
Diomedes cum Aenea: Aeneam servavit Venus
idem cum Glauco: in hospitio cognito discesserunt
idem cum Pandaro [et Glauco alio]: Pandarus [et Glaucus] †occiduntur.
Aiax cum Hectore: donificantes discessere. Aiax Hectori donavit balteum unde est tractus, Hector Aiaci gladium unde se interfecit
Patroclus cum Sarpedone: Sarpedon occiditur
Menelaus cum Euphorbo: Euphorbus occiditur; qui postea Pythagoras est factus et meminit suam animam in corpora transisse.
Achilles cum Asteropaeo: Asteropaeus occiditur
idem cum Hectore: Hector occiditur
idem cum Aenea: Aeneas fugatur
idem cum Agenore: Agenorem ‘servavit Apollo’. —
idem cum Penthesilea Amazone, Martis et Otrerae filia: Penthesilea occiditur.
Antilochus cum Memnone: Antilochus occiditur.
Achilles cum Memnone: Memnon occiditur. —
Philoctetes cum Alexandro: Alexander occiditur
Neoptolemus cum Eurypylo: Eurypylus occiditur
112. Challenges: who fought whom
Menelaus with Alexander: Aphrodite snatched Alexander away.
Diomedes with Aeneas: Aphrodite saved Aeneas.
The same with Glaucus: they recognised the guest-friendship and parted.
The same with Pandarus [and another Glaucus]: Pandarus [and Glaucus] †are killed.
Ajax with Hector: they parted exchanging gifts. Ajax gave Hector a belt, by which he was dragged; Hector gave Ajax a sword, with which he killed himself.
Patroclus with Sarpedon: Sarpedon is killed.
Menelaus with Euphorbus: Euphorbus is killed; he afterwards became Pythagoras and remembered that his soul had passed into other bodies.
Achilles with Asteropaeus: Asteropaeus is killed.
The same with Hector: Hector is killed.
The same with Aeneas: Aeneas is put to flight.
The same with Agenor: ‘Apollo saved’ Agenor. —
The same with the Amazon Penthesilea, daughter of Ares and Otrera: Penthesilea is killed.
Antilochus with Memnon: Antilochus is killed.
Achilles with Memnon: Memnon is killed. —
Philoctetes with Alexander: Alexander is killed.
Neoptolemus with Eurypylus: Eurypylus is killed.
CXIII Nobilem quem quis occidit
Achillem Apollo Alexandri figura
Hector Protesilaum idem * | * Antilochum
Agenor Elephenorem idem Clonium | Deiphobus Ascalaphum idem †Antonoum
Eurypylus Nireum idem Machaonem | Sarpedon Tlepolemum
Ulysses Hippodamum idem Chromium | Agamemnon Iphidamantem idem Antiphum
Aiax ⟨Polydamantem⟩ idem Glaucum | Aiax Locrus †Carcanum idem †Gavium
Diomedes Dolonem idem Rhesum | Achilles Troilum
Menelaus Deiphobum idem Pylaemenem | Achilles †Astynomum
Neoptolemus Priamum
113. Notable victims: who killed whom
Apollo, in the form of Alexander, killed Achilles.
Hector killed Protesilaus, and the same * | * Antilochus.
Agenor killed Elephenor, and the same Clonius | Deiphobus killed Ascalaphus, and the same †Antonous.
Eurypylus killed Nireus, and the same Machaon | Sarpedon killed Tlepolemus.
Odysseus killed Hippodamus, and the same Chromius | Agamemnon killed Iphidamas, and the same Antiphus.
Ajax ⟨killed Polydamas⟩, and the same Glaucus | Ajax of Locris killed †Carcanus, and the same †Gavius.
Diomedes killed Dolon, and the same Rhesus | Achilles killed Troilus.
Menelaus killed Deiphobus, and the same Pylaemenes | Achilles killed †Astynomus.
Neoptolemus killed Priam.
CXIIII Achivi qui quot occiderunt
Achilles numero LXXII | Antilochus num. II
Protesilaus num. IIII | Peneleus num. II
Eurypylus num. I | Aiax Oilei num. XXIV
Thoas nu. II | Leitus nu. XX
Thrasymedes num. II
Agamemnon num. XVI | Diomedes num. XVIII
Menelaus VIII | Philocteta num. III
Meriones num. VII | Ulysses num. XII
Idomeneus num. XIII | Leonteus num. V
Aiax Telamonius num. XXVIII
Patroclus num. LIII | Polypoetes num. I
Teucer num. XXX | Neoptolemus VI
Fit numerus CCCLXII
114. The Achaeans: how many each killed
Achilles, number 72 | Antilochus, number 2
Protesilaus, number 4 | Peneleus, number 2
Eurypylus, number 1 | Ajax son of Oileus, number 24
Thoas, number 2 | Leitus, number 20
Thrasymedes, number 2
Agamemnon, number 16 | Diomedes, number 18
Menelaus, 8 | Philoctetes, number 3
Meriones, number 7 | Odysseus, number 12
Idomeneus, number 13 | Leonteus, number 5
Ajax son of Telamon, number 28
Patroclus, number 53 | Polypoetes, number 1
Teucer, number 30 | Neoptolemus, 6
The total comes to 362.
CXV Troiani qui quot occiderunt
Hector numero XXXI | Alexander num. III | Sarpedon num. II
Panthous num. IIII | Gargasus num. II | Glaucus numero IIII
Polydamas num. III | Aeneas numero XXVIII | Deiphobus num. IIII
Clytus num. III | Acamas num. I | Agenor num. II
Fit numerus LXXXVIII
115. The Trojans: how many each killed
Hector, number 31 | Alexander, number 3 | Sarpedon, number 2
Panthous, number 4 | Gargasus, number 2 | Glaucus, number 4
Polydamas, number 3 | Aeneas, number 28 | Deiphobus, number 4
Clytus, number 3 | Acamas, number 1 | Agenor, number 2
The total comes to 88.
CXVI Nauplius
Ilio capto et divisa praeda Danai cum domum redirent, ira deorum quod fana spoliaverant et quod Cassandram Aiax Locrus a signo palladio abripuerat, tempestate et flatibus adversis ad saxa Capharea naufragium fecerunt; in qua tempestate Aiax Locrus fulmine est a Minerva ictus, quem fluctus ad saxa illiserunt, unde Aiacis petrae sunt dictae. c[a]eteri noctu cum fidem deorum implorarent, Nauplius audivit sensitque tempus adesse ad perse-
quendas filii sui Palamedis iniurias. itaque tanquam auxilium eis afferret, facem ardentem eo loco extulit, quo saxa acuta et locus periculosissimus erat. illi credentes humanitatis causa id factum naves eo duxerunt: quo facto plurimae eorum confractae sunt militesque plurimi cum ducibus tempestate occisi sunt membraque eorum cum visceribus ad saxa illisa sunt: si qui autem potuerunt ad terram natare a Nauplio interficiebantur. At Ulyssem ventus detulit ad Maronem, Menelaum in Aegyptum; Agamemnon cum Cassandra in patriam pervenit.
116. Nauplius
After Ilium was taken and the booty divided, when the Danaans were returning home, through the anger of the gods because they had despoiled the shrines and because Ajax of Locris had torn Cassandra from the image of Pallas, in a storm and with contrary winds they were wrecked on the rocks of Caphareus; in that storm Ajax of Locris was struck by lightning by Athena, and the waves dashed him on the rocks, from which they are called the rocks of Ajax. When the others at night were calling on the help of the gods, Nauplius heard and sensed that the time had come to pur-
sue the wrongs done to his son Palamedes. So, as if bringing them help, he held up a burning torch in the place where there were sharp rocks and the most dangerous spot. They, believing it was done out of kindness, steered their ships there; and so very many of their ships were wrecked and very many soldiers with their leaders were killed in the storm, and their limbs with their entrails were dashed on the rocks; and those who could swim to land were killed by Nauplius. The wind carried Odysseus to Maron, Menelaus to Egypt; Agamemnon reached his homeland with Cassandra.
CXVII Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra Tyndarei filia Agamemnonis uxor cum audisset ab Oeace Palamedis fratre, Cassandram sibi pellicem adduci (quod ementitus est, ut fratris iniurias exequeretur), tunc Clytemnestra cum Aegistho filio Thyestis cepit consilium, ut Agamemnonem et Cassandram interficeret: quem sacrificantem securi cum Cassandra interfecerunt. At Electra Agamemnonis filia Orestem fratrem infantem sustulit; quem demandavit in Phocide Strophio, cui fuit Astyochea Agamemnonis soror nupta.
117. Clytemnestra
When Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and wife of Agamemnon, heard from Oeax, Palamedes' brother, that Cassandra was being brought to her as a concubine (which he falsely said so as to avenge his brother's wrongs), then Clytemnestra took counsel with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, to kill Agamemnon and Cassandra: they killed him with an axe as he was sacrificing, with Cassandra. But Electra, Agamemnon's daughter, carried off her infant brother Orestes; she entrusted him in Phocis to Strophius, whose wife was Astyochea, Agamemnon's sister.
CXVIII Proteus
In Aegypto Proteus senex marinus divinus dicitur fuisse, qui in omnes se figuras convertere solitus erat. quem Menelaus Idotheae filiae eius monitu catena alligavit, ut sibi diceret, quando domum repetitionem haberet. quem Proteus edocuit, iram deorum ⟨ob⟩esse, quod Troia esset devicta, ideoque id fieri debere, quod ** [hecatomben graece dicitur, cum centum armenta occiduntur.] itaque Menelaus hecatomben fecit. tunc demum post octavum annum quam ab Ilio discesserat cum Helena in patriam redit.
118. Proteus
In Egypt Proteus, the old man of the sea, is said to have been a seer, who used to change himself into every shape. Menelaus, on the advice of Proteus' daughter Idothea, bound him with a chain, so that he would tell him when he should return home. Proteus taught him that the anger of the gods was upon him, because Troy had been conquered, and that he must therefore do what ** [is called in Greek a hecatomb, when a hundred head of cattle are slaughtered.] So Menelaus offered a hecatomb. Only then, after the eighth year since he had left Ilium, did he return to his country with Helen.
CXIX Orestes
Orestes Agamemnonis et Clytemnestrae filius postquam in puberem aetatem venit studebat patris sui mortem exequi. itaque consilium capit cum Pylade et Mycenas venit ad matrem Clytemnestram, dicitque se Aeolium hospitem esse nuntiatque Orestem esse mortuum, quem Aegisthus populo necandum demandaverat: nec multo post Pylades Strophii filius ad Clytemnestram venit urnamque secum affert dicitque ossa Orestis condita esse. quos Aegisthus laetabundus hospitio recepit. [qui] occasione capta Orestes cum Pylade noctu Clytemnestram matrem et Aegisthum interficiunt. quem Tyndareus cum accusaret, Oresti a Mycenensibus fuga data est propter patrem. quem postea furiae matris exagitarunt.
119. Orestes
When Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, reached the age of puberty, he was eager to avenge his father's death. So he made a plan with Pylades and came to Mycenae, to his mother Clytemnestra, and said that he was an Aeolian guest, and announced that Orestes was dead, whom Aegisthus had commissioned the people to kill. Not long after, Pylades, son of Strophius, came to Clytemnestra and brought an urn with him and said that Orestes' bones were laid in it. Aegisthus received them joyfully as guests. [who] Seizing the opportunity, Orestes and Pylades killed at night his mother Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. When Tyndareus accused him, flight from the Mycenaeans was granted to Orestes, for the sake of his father. The Furies of his mother afterwards harried him.
CXX Iphigenia Taurica
Orestem furiae cum exagitarent Delphos sciscitatum est profectus, quis tandem modus esset aerumnarum: responsum est, ut in terram Tauricam ad regem Thoantem patrem Hypsipyles iret, indeque de templo Dianae signum Argos afferret; tunc finem fore malorum. sorte audita cum Pylade Strophii filio sodale suo navem conscendit celeriterque ad Taur⟨ic⟩os ⟨fines⟩ devenerunt, quorum fuit institutum ut qui intra fines eorum hospes venisset templo Dianae immolaretur. ubi Orestes et Pylades cum in spelunca se tutarentur et occasionem captarent, a pastoribus deprehensi ad regem Thoantem sunt deducti. quos Thoas suo more vinctos in templum Dianae ut immolarentur duci iussit, ubi Iphigenia Orestis soror fuit sacerdos. eosque ex signis atque argumentis qui essent quid venissent postquam resciit, abiectis ministeriis ipsa coepit signum Dianae avellere. quo rex cum intervenisset et rogitaret cur id faceret, illa ementita est dicitque eos sceleratos signum contaminasse: quod impii et scelerati homines in templum esent adducti, signum expiandum ad mare ferre oportere, et iubere eum interdicere civibus, ne quis eorum extra urbem exiret. rex sacerdoti dicto audiens fuit. occasione Iphigenia nacta signo sublato cum fratre Oreste et Pylade in navem ascendit ventoque secundo ad insulam Zmint⟨h⟩en ad Chrysen sacerdotem Apollinis delati sunt. —
120. Iphigenia among the Taurians
When the Furies harried Orestes, he went to Delphi to ask what at last would be the end of his troubles: the answer was that he should go to the land of the Taurians, to King Thoas, father of Hypsipyle, and from there bring the image from the temple of Artemis to Argos; then there would be an end of his woes. Having heard the oracle, he boarded a ship with Pylades, son of Strophius, his friend, and they quickly came to the ⟨territory of the⟩ Taurians, whose custom was that any stranger who came within their borders was sacrificed in the temple of Artemis. There, while Orestes and Pylades were sheltering in a cave and waiting for their chance, they were caught by herdsmen and led to King Thoas. Thoas, in his custom, ordered them to be led bound to the temple of Artemis to be sacrificed, where Iphigenia, sister of Orestes, was priestess. When she learned from signs and tokens who they were and why they had come, she dismissed her attendants and herself began to pull the image of Artemis from its place. When the king came upon her and asked why she was doing this, she lied and said that the criminals had polluted the image: since impious and criminal men had been brought into the temple, the image had to be carried to the sea to be purified, and he should forbid the citizens to let any of them go outside the city. The king obeyed the priestess's word. Taking her opportunity, Iphigenia took up the image and boarded a ship with her brother Orestes and Pylades; with a favourable wind they were carried to the island of Zmintha, to Chryses, priest of Apollo. —
CXXI Chryses
— Agamemnon cum ad Troiam iret, [et] Achilles in Mysiam venit et Chryseidam Apollinis sacerdotis filiam abduxit eamque Agamemnoni dedit in coniugium. quod cum Chryses ad Agamemnonem deprecandum venisset, ut sibi filiam redderet, non impetravit. ob id Apollo exercitum eius partim fame ⟨partim morbo⟩ prope totum consumpsit. itaque Agamemnon Chryseida gravidam sacerdoti remisit. quae cum diceret se ab eo intactam esse, suo tempore peperit Chrysen iuniorem et dixit se ab Apolline concepisse. — Postea Chryses Thoanti eos cum reddere vellet, Chryse⟨i⟩s ⟨ut⟩ audiit [senior] Agamemnonis Iphigeniam et Orestem filios esse, [qui] Chrysi filio suo quid veri esset patefecit, eos fratres esse et Chrysen Agamemnonis filium esse. tum Chryses re cognita cum Oreste fratre Thoantem interfecit et inde Mycenas cum signo Dianae incolumes pervenerunt.
121. Chryses
— When Agamemnon was going to Troy, [and] Achilles came to Mysia and carried off Chryseis, the daughter of Apollo's priest, and gave her to Agamemnon as wife. When Chryses came to Agamemnon to plead that he should give his daughter back, he did not obtain it. For this Apollo destroyed nearly all his army, partly by famine ⟨partly by disease⟩. So Agamemnon sent Chryseis back, pregnant, to the priest. She, though she said she had been untouched by him, in due time bore a younger Chryses and said that she had conceived him by Apollo. — Afterwards, when Chryses wanted to hand them over to Thoas, Chryseis, ⟨when⟩ she heard that Iphigenia and Orestes were sons of Agamemnon, [the elder] [who] revealed the truth to her son Chryses: that they were brothers and that Chryses was a son of Agamemnon. Then Chryses, knowing this, killed Thoas with his brother Orestes, and from there they reached Mycenae unharmed with the image of Artemis.
CXXII Aletes
Ad Electram Agamemnonis et Clytemnestrae filiam sororem Orestis nuntius falsus venit fratrem cum Pylade in Tauricis * Dianae esse immolatos. id Aletes Aegisthi filius cum rescisset ex Atridarum genere neminem superesse, regnum Mycenis optinere coepit. at Electra de fratris nece Delphos sciscitatum est profecta. Quo cum venisset, eodem die Iphigenia cum Oreste venit eo. idem nuntius, qui de Oreste dixerat, dixit Iphigeniam fratris interfectricem esse. Electra ubi audivit id, truncum ardentem ex ara sustulit voluitque inscia sorori Iphigeniae oculos eruere, nisi Orestes intervenisset. Cognitione itaque facta Mycenas venerunt et Aleten Aegisthi filium Orestes interfecit et Erigonam ex Clytemnestra et Aegistho natam voluit interficere, sed Diana eam rapuit et in terram Atticam *sacerdotem fecit. Orestes autem [Neoptolemo interfecto] Hermionen Menelai et Helenae filiam [abductam] coniugem duxit; Pylades autem Electram Agamemnonis et Clytemnestrae filiam duxit.
122. Aletes
To Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Orestes' sister, a false messenger came to say that her brother with Pylades had been sacrificed to Artemis among the Taurians *. When Aletes, son of Aegisthus, learned this, that none of the house of the Atridae survived, he began to hold the kingdom at Mycenae. But Electra set out for Delphi to enquire about her brother's death. When she had arrived there, on the same day Iphigenia came there with Orestes. The same messenger who had spoken about Orestes said that Iphigenia was the murderess of her brother. When Electra heard this she took a burning brand from the altar and wanted, not knowing her sister Iphigenia, to tear out her eyes, had Orestes not intervened. So, recognition having taken place, they came to Mycenae, and Orestes killed Aletes, son of Aegisthus, and wanted to kill Erigone, born of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, but Artemis snatched her away and in the land of Attica * made her a priestess. Orestes [after Neoptolemus had been killed] took Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen, [carried off,] as wife; and Pylades married Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
CXXIII Neoptolemus
Neoptolemus Achillis et Deidamiae filius ex Andromacha Eetionis filia captiva procreavit Amphialum. sed postquam audivit, Hermionem sponsam suam Oresti esse datam in coniugium, Lacedaemonem venit et a Menelao sponsam suam petit. cui ille fidem suam infirmare noluit Hermionenque ab Oreste abduxit et Neoptolemo dedit. Orestes iniuria accepta Neoptolemum Delphis sacrificantem occidit et Hermionem recuperavit: cuius ossa per fines Ambraciae sparsa sunt, quae est in Epiri regionibus.
123. Neoptolemus
Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and Deidamia, had by Andromache, daughter of Eetion, a captive, a son Amphialus. But when he heard that Hermione, his betrothed, had been given in marriage to Orestes, he came to Lacedaemon and asked Menelaus for his betrothed. Menelaus did not wish to break his pledge to him and took Hermione away from Orestes and gave her to Neoptolemus. Orestes, having received the injury, killed Neoptolemus while he was sacrificing at Delphi and recovered Hermione; [?] whose bones were scattered through the territory of Ambracia, which is in the regions of Epirus.
CXXIIII Reges Achivorum
Phoroneus Inachi filius Argus Iovis filius Piranthus Argi filius Trio⟨p⟩as Piranthi filius Pelasgus Agenoris filius Danaus Beli filius Alexander Eurysthei. Tantalus Iovis filius Pelops Tantali filius Atreus Pelopis filius Thyestes Pelopis Agamemnon Atrei Aegisthus Thyestes Orestes Agamemnonis Aletes Aegisthi Tisamenus Orestis Temenus Aristomachi filius Cisus Temeni filius.
124. Kings of the Achaeans
Phoroneus, son of Inachus; Argus, son of Zeus; Piranthus, son of Argus; Triopas, son of Piranthus; Pelasgus, son of Agenor; Danaus, son of Belus; Alexander, son of Eurystheus. Tantalus, son of Zeus; Pelops, son of Tantalus; Atreus, son of Pelops; Thyestes, son of Pelops; Agamemnon, son of Atreus; Aegisthus, son of Thyestes; Orestes, son of Agamemnon; Aletes, son of Aegisthus; Tisamenus, son of Orestes; Temenus, son of Aristomachus; Cisus, son of Temenus.
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