ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ἐς τοσοῦτο εἰρήσθω· μετὰ δὲ τὸν ἀνδριάντα τοῦ Εὐθύμου Πύθαρχός τε ἕστηκε Μαντινεὺς σταδιοδρόμος καὶ πύκτης Ἠλεῖος Χαρμίδης, λαβόντες νίκας ἐπὶ παισί. θεασάμενος δὲ καὶ τούτους ἐπὶ τῶν Ῥοδίων ἀθλητῶν ἀφίξῃ τὰς εἰκόνας, Διαγόραν καὶ τὸ ἐκείνου γένος· οἱ δὲ συνεχεῖς τε ἀλλήλοις καὶ ἐν κόσμῳ τοιῷδε ἀνέκειντο, Ἀκουσίλαος μὲν λαβὼν πυγμῆς ἐν ἀνδράσι στέφανον, Δωριεὺς δὲ ὁ νεώτατος παγκρατίῳ νικήσας Ὀλυμπιάσιν ἐφεξῆς τρισί. πρότερον δὲ ἔτι τοῦ Δωριέως ἐκράτησε καὶ Δαμάγητος τοὺς ἐσελθόντας ἐς τὸ παγκράτιον.
οὗτοι μὲν ἀδελφοί τέ εἰσι καὶ Διαγόρου παῖδες, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖς κεῖται καὶ ὁ Διαγόρας, πυγμῆς ἐν ἀνδράσιν ἀνελόμενος νίκην· τοῦ Διαγόρου δὲ τὴν εἰκόνα Μεγαρεὺς εἰργάσατο Καλλικλῆς Θεοκόσμου τοῦ ποιήσαντος τὸ ἄγαλμα ἐν Μεγάροις τοῦ Διός. Διαγόρου δὲ καὶ οἱ τῶν θυγατέρων παῖδες πύξ τε ἤσκησαν καὶ ἔσχον Ὀλυμπικὰς νίκας, ἐν μὲν ἀνδράσιν Εὐκλῆς Καλλιάνακτός τε ὢν καὶ Καλλιπατείρας τῆς Διαγόρου, Πεισίροδος δὲ ἐν παισίν, ὃν ἡ μήτηρ ἀνδρὸς ἐπιθεμένη γυμναστοῦ σχῆμα ἐπὶ τῶν Ὀλυμπίων αὐτὴ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἤγαγεν·
οὗτος δὲ ὁ Πεισίροδος καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἄλτει παρὰ τῆς μητρὸς τὸν πατέρα ἕστηκε. Διαγόραν δὲ καὶ ὁμοῦ τοῖς παισὶν Ἀκουσιλάῳ καὶ Δαμαγήτῳ λέγουσιν ἐς Ὀλυμπίαν ἐλθεῖν· νικήσαντες δὲ οἱ νεανίσκοι διὰ τῆς πανηγύρεως τὸν πατέρα ἔφερον βαλλόμενόν τε ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἄνθεσι καὶ εὐδαίμονα ἐπὶ τοῖς παισὶ καλούμενον. γένος δὲ ὁ Διαγόρας τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς Μεσσήνιος πρὸς γυναικῶν ἦν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀριστομένους ἐγεγόνει θυγατρός.
Δωριεῖ δὲ τῷ Διαγόρου παρὲξ ἢ Ὀλυμπίασιν Ἰσθμίων μὲν γεγόνασιν ὀκτὼ νῖκαι, Νεμείων δὲ ἀποδέουσαι μιᾶς ἐς τὰς ὀκτώ· λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡς Πύθια ἀνέλοιτο ἀκονιτί. ἀνηγορεύοντο δὲ οὗτός τε καὶ ὁ Πεισίροδος Θούριοι, διωχθέντες ὑπὸ τῶν ἀντιστασιωτῶν ἐκ τῆς Ῥόδου καὶ ἐς Ἰταλίαν παρὰ Θουρίους ἀπελθόντες. χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον κατῆλθεν ὁ Δωριεὺς ἐς Ῥόδον· καὶ φανερώτατα δὴ ἁπάντων ἀνὴρ εἷς φρονήσας οὗτος τὰ Λακεδαιμονίων φαίνεται, ὥστε καὶ ἐναυμάχησεν ἐναντία Ἀθηναίων ναυσὶν οἰκείαις, ἐς ὃ τριήρων ἁλοὺς Ἀττικῶν ἀνήχθη ζῶν παρὰ Ἀθηναίους.
οἱ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι πρὶν μὲν ἢ Δωριέα παρὰ σφᾶς ἀναχθῆναι θυμῷ τε ἐς αὐτὸν καὶ ἀπειλαῖς ἐχρῶντο· ὡς δὲ ἐς ἐκκλησίαν συνελθόντες ἄνδρα οὕτω μέγαν καὶ δόξης ἐς τοσοῦτο ἥκοντα ἐθεάσαντο ἐν σχήματι αἰχμαλώτου, μεταπίπτει σφίσιν ἐς αὐτὸν ἡ γνώμη καὶ ἀπελθεῖν ἀφιᾶσιν οὐδὲ ἔργον οὐδὲν ἄχαρι ἐργάζονται, παρόν σφισι πολλά τε καὶ σὺν τῷ δικαίῳ δρᾶσαι.
τὰ δὲ ἐς τοῦ Δωριέως τὴν τελευτήν ἐστιν ἐν τῇ συγγραφῇ τῇ Ἀτθίδι Ἀνδροτίωνι εἰρημένα, εἶναι μὲν τηνικαῦτα ἐν Καύνῳ τὸ βασιλέως ναυτικὸν καὶ Κόνωνα ἐπʼ αὐτῷ στρατηγόν, Ῥοδίων δὲ τὸν δῆμον πεισθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ Κόνωνος ἀπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων μεταβαλέσθαι σφᾶς ἐς τὴν βασιλέως καὶ Ἀθηναίων συμμαχίαν, Δωριέα δὲ ἀποδημεῖν μὲν τότε ἐκ Ῥόδου περὶ τὰ ἐντὸς Πελοποννήσου χωρία, συλληφθέντα δὲ ὑπὸ ἀνδρῶν Λακεδαιμονίων αὐτὸν καὶ ἀναχθέντα ἐς Σπάρτην ἀδικεῖν τε ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων καταγνωσθῆναι καὶ ἐπιβληθῆναί οἱ θάνατον ζημίαν.
εἰ δὲ τὸν ὄντα εἶπεν Ἀνδροτίων λόγον, ἐθέλειν μοι φαίνεται Λακεδαιμονίους ἐς τὸ ἴσον ἔτι Ἀθηναίοις καταστῆσαι, ὅτι καὶ Ἀθηναίοις ἐς Θράσυλλον καὶ τοὺς ἐν Ἀργινούσαις ὁμοῦ τῷ Θρασύλλῳ στρατηγήσαντας προπετείας ἐστὶν ἔγκλημα. Διαγόρας μὲν δὴ καὶ τὸ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ γένος δόξης ἐς τοσοῦτο ἀφίκοντο·
ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ Ἀλκαινέτῳ τῷ Θεάντου Λεπρεάτῃ καὶ αὐτῷ καὶ τοῖς παισὶν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι. αὐτὸς μέν γε πυκτεύων ὁ Ἀλκαίνετος ἔν τε ἀνδράσι καὶ πρότερον ἔτι ἐπεκράτησεν ἐν παισίν· Ἑλλάνικον δὲ τὸν Ἀλκαινέτου καὶ Θέαντον ἐπὶ πυγμῇ παίδων ἀναγορευθῆναι τὸν μὲν ἐνάτῃ πρὸς ταῖς ὀγδοήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδι, τὸν δὲ τῇ ἐφεξῆς ταύτῃ συνέβη τὸν Θέαντον· καί σφισιν ἀνδριάντες ἅπασιν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ κεῖνται.
ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἀλκαινέτου τοῖς υἱοῖς Γνάθων τε Διπαιεὺς τῆς Μαιναλέων χώρας καὶ Λυκῖνος ἕστηκεν Ἠλεῖος· κρατῆσαι δὲ Ὀλυμπίασι πυγμῇ παῖδας ὑπῆρξε καὶ τούτοις. Γνάθωνα δὲ καὶ ἐς τὰ μάλιστα, ὅτε ἐνίκησεν, εἶναι νέον τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ φησί· Καλλικλέους δὲ τοῦ Μεγαρέως ποίημα ὁ ἀνδριάς ἐστιν.
ἀνὴρ δὲ ἐκ Στυμφήλου Δρομεὺς ὄνομα, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἔργον τοῦτο ἐπὶ δολίχῳ παρεσχημένος, δύο μὲν ἔσχεν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ νίκας, τοσαύτας δὲ ἄλλας Πυθοῖ καὶ Ἰσθμίων τε τρεῖς καὶ ἐν Νεμέᾳ πέντε. λέγεται δὲ ὡς καὶ κρέας ἐσθίειν ἐπινοήσειε· τέως δὲ τοῖς ἀθληταῖς σιτία τυρὸν ἐκ τῶν ταλάρων εἶναι. τούτου μὲν δὴ Πυθαγόρας τὴν εἰκόνα, τὴν δὲ ἐφεξῆς ταύτῃ, πένταθλον Ἠλεῖον Πυθοκλέα, Πολύκλειτός ἐστιν εἰργασμένος.
After the statue of Euthymus is a statue of Pytharchus, a Mantinean, a runner, and one of Charmides, an Elean, a boxer, both of them victors among the boys. After observing them you will come to the statues of the Rhodian athletes, Diagoras and his family. They stand beside each other in the following order: Acusilaus, who won a crown for boxing among the men; and Dorieus the youngest, who conquered in the pancratium in three successive Olympiads. Before him Damagetus also had vanquished all comers in the pancratium. These were brothers, sons of Diagoras. After them is a statue of Diagoras himself, who won a victory in boxing among the men. The statue of Diagoras is by Callicles, a Megarian, whose father Theocosmus made the statue of Zeus at Megara. The sons of Diagoras’ daughters also practised boxing and won Olympic victories: Eucles, son of Callianax and of Callipatira, daughter of Diagoras, was victorious among the men, and Pisirodus was victorious among the boys. It was this Pisirodus whom his mother, in the guise of a trainer, brought to the Olympic games. His statue stands in the Altis beside that of his mother’s father. They say that Diagoras came with his sons Acusilaus and Damagetus to Olympia; and when the young men had won their prizes, they carried their father through the assembly, while the people pelted him with flowers, and called him happy in his children. Diagoras was Messenian by extraction on the female side, being descended from the daughter of Aristomenes.
Dorieus, son of Diagoras, besides his victories at Olympia, won eight victories at the Isthmian, and seven at the Nemean games, and it is said that he was victorious at the Pythian games without a contest. He and Pisirodus were proclaimed as Thurians, because being chased by the opposite faction from Rhodes they had gone to Thurii in Italy. But afterwards Dorieus was restored to Rhodes. No one man ever sided more openly with the Lacedaemonians than he, for he even fought against the Athenians with ships of his own, till being taken by some Attic galleys he was carried a prisoner to Athens. Before Dorieus was brought before them the Athenians were wroth with him and indulged in threats; but when they met in public assembly, and beheld so great and famous a man in the guise of a captive, their feelings towards him changed, and they let him go free and did him no harm, though they might justly have treated him with severity. Androtion, in his work on Attica, has described the death of Dorieus. He says that the king’s fleet, commanded by Conon, was then at Caunus, and the Rhodian people were persuaded by Conon to renounce the Lacedaemonian alliance and join the king and the Athenians. Dorieus was at that time absent in the interior of Peloponnese, and being arrested by some Lacedaemonians and brought to Sparta, he was condemned as a traitor by the Lacedaemonians and sentenced to death. If what Androtion says is true, he seems to wish to put the Lacedaemonians in the same position as the Athenians, because the Athenians also stand charged with rash haste in their treatment of Thrasyllus and the men who commanded jointly with him at Arginusae. To such a height of glory, then, did Diagoras and his descendants attain.
Alcaenetus, son of Theantus, a Leprean, also gained Olympic victories, he and his sons. Alcaenetus himself was victorious in the men’s boxing-match, and he had previously won the boys’ match. His sons, Hellanicus and Theantus, were proclaimed victors in the boys’ boxing-match,—Hellanicus in the eighty-ninth Olympiad, and Theantus in the next. There are statues of them all at Olympia. After the statues of the sons of Alcaenetus is a statue of Gnathon, a Maenalian of Dipaea, and another of Lycinus, an Elean; these also were victorious in the boys’ boxing-match at Olympia. The inscription on the statue of Gnathon declares that he was very young when he gained the victory. The statue is by Callicles the Megarian. A man of Stymphalus, by name Dromeus (‘runner’), verified his name in the long race, for he won two victories at Olympia, as many at Pytho, three at the Isthmian games, and five at Nemea. It is said that the use of a flesh diet was an idea of his, for previously the athletes had been fed on cheese from the basket. His statue is by Pythagoras; and the one next to it, that of Pythocles, an Elean pentathlete, is by Polyclitus.
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