ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖς κατειλεγμένοις ἕστηκεν ὁ Καρύστιος Γλαῦκος· εἶναι δέ φασιν 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 κατʼ ἀρχὰς ἐργάζεσθαι· ἐκπεσοῦσαν δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἀρότρου τὴν ὕνιν πρὸς τὸ ἄροτρον καθήρμοσε τῇ χειρὶ ἀντὶ σφύρας χρώμενος, καί πως
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 ἀπʼ ἀρότρου” . οὕτω γε δὴ βιαιοτέραν ἐς τὸν ἀνταγωνιζόμενον ἐνεγκὼν τὴν πληγὴν αὐτίκα εἶχε τὴν νίκην.
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 κατʼ αὐτὸν χειρονομῆσαι πεφυκώς. ἀποθανόντα δὲ οἱ Καρύστιοι ταφῆναί φασιν αὐτὸν ἐν νήσῳ καλουμένῃ Γλαύκου καὶ ἐς ἡμᾶς ἔτι.
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 ἐφʼ 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.
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 παρʼ 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 ἐφʼ αὑτοῦ γενέσθαι·
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.
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 μʼ ἀνέθηκεν ὁ Πόντιος ἐξ Ἐπιδάμνου, / νικήσας ἵπποις καλὸν ἀγῶνα Διός. /
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.
Λυκῖνον δὲ Ἡραιέα καὶ Ἐπικράδιον Μαντινέα καὶ Τέλλωνα Ὀρεσθάσιον καὶ Ἠλεῖον Ἀγιάδαν ἐν παισὶν ἀνελομένους νίκας, Λυκῖνον μὲν δρόμου, τοὺς δὲ ἐπʼ 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.
After the statues I have enumerated stands the statue of Glaucus the Carystian. They say that his family came originally from Anthedon in Boeotia, being descended from Glaucus, the sea-demon. The father of this Carystian was Demylus, and they say that Glaucus at first tilled the ground. Once when the ploughshare had fallen out of the plough, he fitted it in, using his hand instead of a hammer. Demylus observed what the boy did, and therefore took him to Olympia to box. There Glaucus, having no practice in boxing, was wounded by his antagonists, and when he was boxing with the last of them, it was thought that he was breaking down under the number of his hurts. Then they say that his father called out, ‘The one from the plough, boy!’ So Glaucus dealt his adversary a harder blow, and immediately gained the victory. He is said to have gained other crowns: two in the Pythian games, and eight at the Nemean and Isthmian games respectively. The statue of Glaucus was dedicated by his son: it is the work of Glaucias of Aegina. The figure is that of a man in the act of sparring, for Glaucus was the best boxer of his time. The Carystians say that when he died he was buried in an island, called the island of Glaucus to this day.
Damaretus, a Heraean, and his son, and his grandson, each won two victories at Olympia. Damaretus was victorious in the sixty-fifth Olympiad, when the race in armour was first introduced, and he was also victorious in the following Olympiad. His statue has not only a shield, as the armed runners still have, but also a helmet on his head and greaves on his legs. In course of time the wearing of helmet and greaves in the race was abolished both by the Eleans and by the rest of the Greeks. Theopompus, son of Damaretus, won his victories in the pentathlum, and his son of the same name, Theopompus the second, won his victories in wrestling. I do not know who made the statue of Theopompus the wrestler; but the inscription states that the statues of his father and grandfather are by the Argives Eutelidas and Chrysothemis. It does not say, however, under whom they learned their art. The inscription runs thus :— Eutelidas and Chrysothemis made these works : Argives they were, and learned their art from those that went before. Iccus, a Tarentine, son of Nicolaidas, gained the Olympic crown in the pentathlum, and is said to have been afterwards the best trainer of his day. After the statue of Iccus is a statue of Pantarces, an Elean, who won the boys’ wrestling-match, and was beloved of Phidias. After the statue of Pantarces there is a chariot of Cleosthenes, an Epidamnian: it is a work of Ageladas, and stands behind the image of Zeus, which was dedicated by the Greeks from the spoils of the battle of Plataea. Cleosthenes was victorious in the sixty-sixth Olympiad, and along with the statue of the chariot and horses he dedicated statues of himself and the charioteer. The names of the horses also are inscribed: Phoenix and Corax (‘raven’), and on either side of them the horses beside the yoke (i.e. the outriggers), Cnacias on the right, and Samus on the left. There is this couplet on the chariot :— Cleosthenes, son of Pontis, from Epidamnus, dedicated me After he had won a victory with his horses in the glorious games of Zeus. This Cleosthenes is the first horse-breeder in Greece who dedicated his statue at Olympia. For the votive offering of Evagoras, the Laconian, is only a chariot without a figure of Evagoras himself in it; and as to the votive offerings of Miltiades, the Athenian, at Olympia, I will describe them elsewhere. The Epidamnians still possess their original territory, but their present city is not the ancient city, but at a little distance from it. The present city is named Dyrrhachium after its founder. Lycinus, a Heraean, Epicradius, a Mantinean, Tellon, an Oresthasian, and Agiadas, an Elean, won victories among the boys, Lycinus in the foot-race, and the rest in boxing. The statue of Epicradius is by Ptolichus of Aegina, that of Agiadas is by Serambus, also of Aegina: the statue of Lycinus is a work of Cleon; but the name of the sculptor who made the statue of Tellon is not remembered.
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