ἕπεται δέ μοι τῷ λόγῳ τῷ ἐς τὰ ἀναθήματα τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο ἤδη ποιήσασθαι καὶ ἵππων ἀγωνιστῶν μνήμην καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἀθλητῶν τε καὶ ἰδιωτῶν ὁμοίως. τῶν δὲ νικησάντων Ὀλυμπίασιν οὐχ ἁπάντων εἰσὶν ἑστηκότες ἀνδριάντες, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀποδειξάμενοι λαμπρὰ ἐς τὸν ἀγῶνα, οἱ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ ἄλλοις ἔργοις, ὅμως οὐ τετυχήκασιν εἰκόνων·
τούτους ἐκέλευσεν ἀφεῖναί με ὁ λόγος, ὅτι οὐ κατάλογός ἐστιν ἀθλητῶν ὁπόσοις γεγόνασιν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι, ἀναθημάτων δὲ ἄλλων τε καὶ εἰκόνων συγγραφή. οὐδὲ ὁπόσων ἑστήκασιν ἀνδριάντες, οὐδὲ τούτοις πᾶσιν ἐπέξειμι, ἐπιστάμενος ὅσοι τῷ παραλόγῳ τοῦ κλήρου καὶ οὐχ ὑπὸ ἰσχύος ἀνείλοντο ἤδη τὸν κότινον· ὁπόσοις δὲ ἢ αὐτοῖς τι εἶχεν ἐς δόξαν ἢ καὶ τοῖς ἀνδριᾶσιν ὑπῆρχεν ἄμεινον ἑτέρων πεποιῆσθαι, τοσαῦτα καὶ αὐτὸς μνησθήσομαι.
ἔστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ ναοῦ τῆς Ἥρας ἀνδρὸς εἰκὼν παλαιστοῦ, γένος δὲ ἦν Ἠλεῖος, Σύμμαχος Αἰσχύλου· παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν ἐκ Φενεοῦ τῆς Ἀρκάδων Νεολαΐδας Προξένου, πυγμῆς ἐν παισὶν ἀνῃρημένος νίκην· ἐφεξῆς δὲ Ἀρχέδαμος Ξενίου, καταβαλὼν καὶ οὗτος παλαιστὰς παῖδας, γένος καὶ αὐτὸς Ἠλεῖος. τούτων τῶν κατειλεγμένων εἰργάσατο Ἄλυπος τὰς εἰκόνας Σικυώνιος, Ναυκύδους τοῦ Ἀργείου μαθητής.
Κλεογένην δὲ Σιληνοῦ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ φησιν εἶναι τῶν ἐπιχωρίων, ἐκ δὲ ἀγέλης αὐτὸν οἰκείας ἵππῳ κρατῆσαι κέλητι. πλησίον δὲ τοῦ Κλεογένους Δεινόλοχός τε κεῖται Πύρρου καὶ Τρωίλος Ἀλκίνου. τούτοις γένος μὲν καὶ αὐτοῖς ἐστιν ἐξ Ἤλιδος, γεγόνασι δέ σφισιν οὐ κατὰ ταὐτὰ αἱ νῖκαι· ἀλλὰ τῷ μὲν ἑλλανοδικεῖν τε ὁμοῦ καὶ ἵππων ὑπῆρξεν ἀνελέσθαι νίκας τῷ Τρωίλῳ τελείᾳ τε συνωρίδι καὶ πώλων ἅρματι —Ὀλυμπιάδι δὲ ἐκράτει δευτέρᾳ πρὸς ταῖς ἑκατόν,
ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ καὶ νόμος ἐγένετο Ἠλείοις μηδὲ ἵππους τοῦ λοιποῦ τῶν ἑλλανοδικούντων καθιέναι μηδένα—, τούτου μὲν δὴ τὸν ἀνδριάντα ἐποίησε Λύσιππος· ἡ δὲ τοῦ Δεινολόχου μήτηρ εἶδεν ὄψιν ὀνείρατος ὡς ἔχοιτο τοῦ παιδὸς ἐν τοῖς κόλποις ἐστεφανωμένου, καὶ τοῦδε ἕνεκα ἐς τὸν ἀγῶνα ὁ Δεινόλοχος ἠσκήθη καὶ τοὺς παῖδας παρέθει τρέχων. Σικυωνίου δὲ Κλέωνός ἐστιν ἡ εἰκών.
ἐς δὲ τὴν Ἀρχιδάμου Κυνίσκαν, ἐς τὸ γένος τε αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖς Ὀλυμπικαῖς νίκαις, πρότερον ἔτι ἐδήλωσα ἐν τοῖς λόγοις οἳ ἐς τοὺς βασιλέας τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίων ἔχουσι· πεποίηται δὲ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ παρὰ τὸν ἀνδριάντα τοῦ Τρωίλου λίθου κρηπὶς καὶ ἅρμα τε ἵππων καὶ ἀνὴρ ἡνίοχος καὶ αὐτῆς Κυνίσκας εἰκών, Ἀπελλοῦ τέχνη, γέγραπται δὲ καὶ ἐπιγράμματα ἐς τὴν Κυνίσκαν ἔχοντα.
εἰσὶ δὲ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ ἐφεξῆς ἀνακείμενοι τῇ Κυνίσκᾳ, ἵππων νῖκαι γεγόνασιν αὐτοῖς· Ἀνάξανδρος μὲν ἅρματι ἀνηγορεύθη πρῶτος, τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμά φησι τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ Ἀναξάνδρου πρότερον ἔτι στεφανωθῆναι τὸν πατέρα πεντάθλῳ. οὗτος μὲν δὴ ἔοικεν εὐχόμενος τῷ θεῷ, Πολυκλῆς δὲ ἐπίκλησιν λαβὼν Πολύχαλκος τεθρίππῳ μὲν καὶ οὗτος ἐκράτησεν, ἡ δὲ εἰκὼν ἐπὶ τῇ χειρὶ ἔχει οἱ τῇ δεξιᾷ ταινίαν·
παρὰ δὲ αὐτῷ παιδία δύο τὸ μὲν τροχὸν κατέχει, τὸ δὲ αἰτεῖ τὴν ταινίαν. ἐνίκησε δὲ ὁ Πολυκλῆς ἵπποις, ὡς τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ λέγει, καὶ Πυθοῖ καὶ Ἰσθμοῖ τε καὶ Νεμέᾳ.
AFTER describing the votive offerings, I have now to mention the statues of the race-horses and of the men, whether athletes or not. There are not statues set up of all the Olympic victors ; indeed, some of those who specially distinguished themselves in the games or in other walks of life have had no statues. These my subject obliges me to pass over, for it is not a list of the athletes who have gained Olympic victories, but a record of the statues and votive offerings. I will not even go through the entire list of those who have statues erected to them, for I know how many have won the wild olive by the accident of the lot, and not by strength. I will mention only those who had themselves some title to fame or whose statues happened to be better made than others.
On the right of the temple of Hera is a statue of a wrestler, Symmachus, son of Aeschylus, an Elean by birth. Beside it is a statue of Neolaidas, son of Proxenus, from Pheneus in Arcadia, who won the prize for boxing among the boys. Next is Archedamus, son of Xenius, who, like Symmachus, beat the boys in wrestling, and was, like him, an Elean. The statues of these athletes were made by Alypus, a Sicyonian, who was a pupil of Naucydes the Argive. The inscription on the statue of Cleogenes, son of Silenus, says that he was a native of Elis, and that he won the prize with a riding-horse from his own stud. Near Cleogenes is a statue of Dinolochus, son of Pyrrhus, and another of Troilus, son of Alcinous. These were also natives of Elis, but their victories were not alike. Troilus gained victories in the chariot-races at the same time that he was umpire: one was a victory with a full-grown pair, the other was with a team of foals. These victories were gained by him in the hundred and second Olympiad. After that the Eleans made a law that for the future none of the umpires should enter chariots for a race. The statue of Troilus is by Lysippus. Dinolochus’ mother saw a vision in a dream: she thought that she clasped her child to her bosom, and that he had a crown on his head ; therefore Dinolochus was trained for the games, and outran the boys. The statue is by Cleon, a Sicyonian. In my account of the Lacedaemonian kings I have told of the lineage and Olympic victories of Cynisca, daughter of Archidamus. At Olympia there is a basement of stone beside the statue of Troilus, and on this basement there is a chariot and horses, a charioteer, and a statue of Cynisca herself, the work of Apelles. There are also inscriptions referring to Cynisca. Next to her statue are statues of Lacedaemonians who won prizes in the chariot-race. Anaxander was the first who was proclaimed victor in the chariot-race, but the inscription on his statue declares that his paternal grandfather before him won the crown in the pentathlum. He is represented praying to the god. Polycles, who got the surname of Polychalcus, was also victorious with the four-horse chariot, and his statue has a ribbon on its right hand. Beside him are two children, one holding a wheel, the other begging for the ribbon. And, as the inscription on his statue declares, Polycles also won the chariot-race at Pytho (Delphi), the Isthmus, and Nemea.
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