XXXVII Aethra
Neptunus et Aegeus Pandionis filius in fano Minervae cum Aethra Pitthei filia una nocte concubuerunt. Neptunus quod ex ea natum esset Aegeo concessit. Is autem postquam a Troezene Athenas redibat ensem suum sub lapide posuit et praecepit Aethrae, ut tunc eum ad se mitteret cum posset eum lapidem allevare et gladium patris tollere. ibi fore indicium cognitionis filii. Itaque postea Aethra peperit Theseum. Qui ad puberem aetatem cum pervenisset, mater praecepta Aegei indicat ei lapidemque ostendit ut ensem tolleret, et iubet eum Athenas ad Aegeum proficisci *eosque qui itinera infestabant[ur] omnes occidit.
37. Aethra and Theseus
Poseidon and Aegeus, son of Pandion, lay in the shrine of Athena with Aethra, daughter of Pittheus, in one night. Poseidon yielded to Aegeus the child that was born of her. When Aegeus was returning from Troezen to Athens he put his sword beneath a stone and instructed Aethra to send the boy to him when he could lift the stone and take his father's sword; that would be the token by which the son would be recognised. So Aethra afterwards bore Theseus. When he had reached the age of puberty, his mother told him of Aegeus' instructions and showed him the stone so that he might take the sword, and told him to set out for Athens to Aegeus; * and he killed all those who were making the roads unsafe.
XXXVIII Thesei labores
Corynetem * armis occidit. Pityocamptem ⟨Neptuni filium⟩. qui iter gradientes cogebat, ut secum arborem pinum ad terram flecterent. quam qui cum eo prenderat ille eam viribus missam faciebat: ita ad terram graviter elidebatur et periebat. hunc interfecit. Procrustem Neptuni filium. ad hunc hospes cum venisset si longior erat minori lecto proposito reliquam corporis partem praecidebat, sin autem brevior statura erat lecto longiori dato incudibus suppositis extendebat eum usque dum lecti longitudinem aequaret. hunc interfecit. Scironem. qui ad mare loco quodam praerupto sedebat et, qui iter gradiebatur, cogebat eum sibi pedes lavare et ita in mare praecipitabat. hunc Theseus pari leto in mare deiecit, ex quo Sciron⟨i⟩s petrae sunt dictae. Cercyonem Vulcani filium armis occidit. Aprum qui fuit Cremmyone interfecit. Taurum qui fuit Marathone, quem Hercules a Creta ad Eurystheum adduxerat, occidit. Minotaurum oppido Gnosi occidit.
38. The labours of Theseus
He killed Corynetes * in arms. Pityocamptes ⟨son of Poseidon⟩, who forced travellers on the road to bend a pine tree down to the ground with him; when someone had taken hold of it along with him, he would let it go with force, so that the traveller was dashed heavily to the ground and perished. Theseus killed him. Procrustes, son of Poseidon: when a guest came to him, if he was too long, a shorter bed was set out, and he cut off the rest of the body; if he was shorter, a longer bed was given and, anvils being put under him, he was stretched until he matched the length of the bed. Theseus killed him. Sciron, who sat by the sea at a steep place and forced travellers to wash his feet and then hurled them into the sea. Theseus threw him into the sea, to the same death, from which the rocks are called the rocks of Sciron. He killed Cercyon, son of Hephaestus, in arms. He killed the boar at Cremmyon. He killed the bull at Marathon, which Heracles had brought from Crete to Eurystheus. He killed the Minotaur in the city of Cnossus.
XXXVIIII Daedalus
Daedalus Eupalami filius, qui fabricam a Minerva dicitur accepisse, Perdicem sororis suae filium propter artificii invidiam, quod is primum serram invenerat, summo tecto deiecit. ob id scelus in exilium ab Athenis Cretam ad regem Minoem abiit.
39. Daedalus
Daedalus, son of Eupalamus, who is said to have received the craft from Athena, threw Perdix, his sister's son, from the roof, out of envy of his skill, because the boy had been the first to invent the saw. For this crime he went into exile from Athens to Crete, to King Minos.
XXXX Pasiphae
Pasiphae Solis filia uxor Minois sacra deae Veneri[s] per aliquot annos non fecerat. ob id Venus amorem infandum illi obiecit, ut taurum illa amaret. In hoc Daedalus exul cum venisset, petiit ab eo auxilium. is ei vaccam ligneam fecit et verae vaccae corium induxit, in qua illa cum tauro ⟨quem ipsa amabat⟩ concubuit. ex quo compressu Minotaurum peperit capite bubulo parte inferiore humana. tunc Daedalus Minotauro labyrinthum inextricabili exitu fecit in quo est conclusus. Minos re cognita Daedalum in custodiam coniecit. at Pasiphae eum vinculis liberavit. Itaque Daedalus pennas sibi et Icaro filio suo fecit et accommodavit et inde avolarunt. Icarus altius volans, a sole cera calefacta, decidit in mare quod ex eo Icarium pelagus est appellatum. Daedalus pervolavit ad regem Cocalum in Siciliam. — Alii dicunt: Theseus cum Minotaurum occidit Daedalum Athenas in patriam suam reduxit.
40. Pasiphae
Pasiphae, daughter of the Sun and wife of Minos, had for some years not made sacrifices to the goddess Aphrodite. For this Aphrodite put in her an unspeakable love, that she should love a bull. When Daedalus, an exile, came to this place, she asked him for help. He made her a wooden cow and drew the hide of a real cow over it, and in it she lay with the bull ⟨whom she loved⟩. From this union she bore the Minotaur, with the head of a bull and the lower part human. Then Daedalus made for the Minotaur a labyrinth with an inextricable exit, in which he was shut up. When Minos learned of it, he put Daedalus in prison. But Pasiphae freed him from his bonds. So Daedalus made wings for himself and his son Icarus and fitted them, and from there they flew away. Icarus, flying too high, the wax having been warmed by the sun, fell into the sea, which from him is called the Icarian Sea. Daedalus flew across to King Cocalus in Sicily. — Others say: when Theseus killed the Minotaur he led Daedalus back to Athens, his native land.
XXXXI Minos
Minos Iovis et Europae filius cum Atheniensibus belligeravit, cuius filius Androgeus in pugna est occisus. qui posteaquam Athenienses vicit, vectigal Minois esse coeperunt. instituit autem ut anno unoquoque septenos liberos suos Minotauro ad epulandum mitterent. Theseus posteaquam a Troezene venerat et audiit quanta calamitate civitas afficeretur voluntarie se ad Minotaurum pollicitus est ire. quem pater cum mitteret praedixit ei ut si victor reverteretur vela candida in navem haberet: qui autem ad Minotaurum mittebantur velis atris navigabant.
41. Minos
Minos, son of Zeus and Europa, made war on the Athenians, and his son Androgeus was killed in the fighting. After he had conquered the Athenians, they began to be tributary to Minos. He ordained that every year they should send seven of their children to the Minotaur to feed on. Theseus, after he had come from Troezen and had heard with what calamity the city was afflicted, promised of his own accord to go to the Minotaur. When his father sent him he told him in advance that if he returned victorious he should have white sails on his ship; those who were sent to the Minotaur sailed with black sails.
XXXXII Theseus apud Minotaurum
Theseus posteaquam Cretam venit ab Ariadne Minois filia est adamatus, adeo ut fratrem proderet et hospitem servaret: ea enim Theseo monstravit labyrinthi exitum. quo Theseus cum introisset et Minotaurum interfecisset Ariadnes monitu licium revolvendo foras est egressus, eamque quod fidem illi dederat in coniugio secum habiturus avexit.
42. Theseus and the Minotaur
After Theseus came to Crete he was loved by Ariadne, daughter of Minos, so much that she betrayed her brother and saved the stranger: for she showed Theseus the way out of the labyrinth. When Theseus had entered it and killed the Minotaur, on Ariadne's advice, by winding up a thread, he came out; and because he had given her his word, he carried her off, intending to have her as his wife.
XXXXIII Ariadne
Theseus in insula Dia tempestate retentus cogitans si Ariadnen in patriam portasset sibi opprobrium futurum, itaque in insula Dia dormientem reliquit. quam Liber amans inde sibi in coniugium abduxit. Theseus autem cum navigaret oblitus est vela atra mutare: itaque Aegeus pater eius credens Theseum a Minotauro esse consumptum in mare se praecipitavit, ex quo Aegeum pelagus est dictum. Ariadnes autem sororem Phaedram Theseus duxit in coniugium.
43. Ariadne
Theseus, held on the island of Dia by a storm, thinking that it would be a disgrace to him if he brought Ariadne to his homeland, left her sleeping on the island of Dia. Liber (Dionysus), loving her, led her away from there to be his wife. As Theseus sailed, he forgot to change the black sails; so his father Aegeus, believing that Theseus had been consumed by the Minotaur, threw himself into the sea, from which the Aegean Sea is named. And Theseus married Ariadne's sister Phaedra.
XXXXIIII Cocalus
Minos quod Daedali opera multa sibi incommoda acciderant in Siciliam est eum persecutus petiitque a rege Cocalo ut sibi redderetur. cui cum Cocalus promisisset et Daedalus rescisset ab regis filiabus auxilium petiit. illae Minoem occiderunt.
44. Cocalus
Because many troubles had befallen Minos through Daedalus' work, he pursued him to Sicily and asked King Cocalus to hand him back. When Cocalus had promised, and Daedalus had found out, he asked the king's daughters for help. They killed Minos.
XXXXV Philomela
Tereus Martis filius Thrax cum Prognen Pandionis filiam in coniugium haberet, Athenas ad Pandionem socerum venit rogatum, ut Philomelam alteram filiam sibi in coniugium daret: Prognen suum diem obisse dicit. Pandion ei veniam dedit Philomelamque et custodes cum ea misit: quos Tereus in mare iecit Philomelamque invitam in monte * compressit. Postquam autem in Thraciam redit Philomelam mandat ad Lynceum regem, cuius uxor †Laethusa quod Prognae fuit familiaris statim pellicem ⟨Terei⟩ ad eam deduxit. Progne cognita ⟨re cum⟩ sorore impium facinus pari consilio machinari coeperunt ⟨et⟩ regi talem gratiam referre. Interim Tereo ostendebatur in prodigiis Ity filio eius mortem a propinqua manu adesse. quo responso audito cum arbitraretur Dryantem fratrem suum filio suo mortem machinari fratrem Dryantem insontem occidit. Progne autem filium Itym ex se et Tereo natum occidit patrique in epulis apposuit et cum sorore profugit. Tereus facinore cognito fugientes cum insequeretur, deorum misericordia factum est, ut Progne in hirundinem commutaretur, Philomela in lusciniam: Tereum autem accipitrem factum dicunt.
45. Philomela
Tereus, a Thracian, son of Ares, had Procne, daughter of Pandion, as wife; he came to Athens to his father-in-law Pandion to ask him to give him his other daughter Philomela in marriage: he said that Procne had died. Pandion gave him leave and sent Philomela with attendants: Tereus threw these into the sea and raped Philomela against her will on a mountain *. When he returned to Thrace, he entrusted Philomela to King Lynceus, whose wife †Laethusa, because she was a friend of Procne, at once led Tereus' concubine to her. When Procne learned of it, with her sister she began to plot an impious crime in the same spirit and so to repay the king for such a favour. Meanwhile it was shown to Tereus in omens that death for his son Itys was at hand from a near relative. When he heard this response, thinking that his brother Dryas was plotting the death of his son, he killed his innocent brother Dryas. Procne killed her son Itys, born of her and Tereus, set him before his father at a meal, and fled with her sister. When Tereus learned of the crime and pursued them as they fled, through the pity of the gods it happened that Procne was changed into a swallow, Philomela into a nightingale; and they say that Tereus was turned into a hawk.
XXXXVI Erechtheus
Erechtheus Pandionis filius habuit filias quatuor, quae inter se coniurarunt: si una earum mortem obisset, c[a]eterae se interficerent. In eo tempore Eumolpus Neptuni filius Athenas venit oppugnaturus, quod patris sui terram Atticam fuisse diceret. is victus cum exercitu cum esset ab Atheniensibus interfectus, Neptunus, ne filii sui morte Erechtheus laetaretur, expostulavit ut eius filia Neptuno immolaretur. itaque Chthonia filia cum esset immolata, c[a]eterae fide data se ipsae interfecerunt. ipse Erechtheus ab Iove Neptuni rogatu fulmine est ictus.
46. Erechtheus
Erechtheus, son of Pandion, had four daughters, who swore a compact among themselves: if one of them met death, the others would kill themselves. At that time Eumolpus, son of Poseidon, came to Athens to attack it, saying that Attica had been his father's land. When he was defeated and, with his army, killed by the Athenians, Poseidon, so that Erechtheus should not rejoice at his son's death, demanded that Erechtheus' daughter be sacrificed to Poseidon. So when the daughter Chthonia had been sacrificed, the others, in keeping with their pledge, killed themselves. Erechtheus himself was struck by a thunderbolt by Zeus at Poseidon's request.
XXXXVII Hippolytus
Phaedra Minois filia Thesei uxor Hippolytum privignum suum adamavit. Quem cum non potuisset ad suam perducere voluntatem tabellas scriptas ad virum suum misit se ab Hippolyto compressam esse seque ipsa suspendio necavit. [et] Theseus re audita filium suum moenibus excedere iussit et optavit a Neptuno patre filio suo exitium. Itaque cum Hippolytus equis iunctis veheretur, repente e mari taurus apparuit, cuius mugitu equi expavefacti Hippolytum distraxerunt vitaque privarunt.
47. Hippolytus
Phaedra, daughter of Minos and wife of Theseus, fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus. When she could not bring him to her wishes, she sent a written tablet to her husband saying that she had been raped by Hippolytus, and killed herself by hanging. [And] Theseus, hearing of it, ordered his son to leave the city and prayed to his father Poseidon for his son's destruction. So, as Hippolytus was driving with his horses yoked, a bull suddenly appeared from the sea; terrified by its bellowing, the horses dragged Hippolytus to pieces and deprived him of life.
XXXXVIII Reges Atheniensium
Cecrops Terrae filius Cephalus Deionis filius
Erichthonius Vulcani filius Aegeus Pandionis filius
Pandion Erichthonii filius Theseus Aegei filius
Erechtheus Pandionis filius Demophon Thesei filius
48. Kings of the Athenians
Cecrops, son of Earth; Cephalus, son of Deion.
Erichthonius, son of Hephaestus; Aegeus, son of Pandion.
Pandion, son of Erichthonius; Theseus, son of Aegeus.
Erechtheus, son of Pandion; Demophon, son of Theseus.
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