Θεογνήτῳ δὲ Αἰγινήτῃ πάλης μὲν στέφανον λαβεῖν ὑπῆρξεν ἐν παισί, τὸν δὲ ἀνδριάντα οἱ Πτόλιχος ἐποίησεν Αἰγινήτης. διδάσκαλοι δὲ ἐγεγόνεσαν Πτολίχῳ μὲν Συννοῶν ὁ πατήρ, ἐκείνῳ δὲ Ἀριστοκλῆς Σικυώνιος, ἀδελφός τε Κανάχου καὶ οὐ πολὺ τὰ ἐς δόξαν ἐλασσούμενος. ἐφʼ ὅτῳ δὲ ὁ Θεόγνητος πίτυος τῆς γʼ ἡμέρου καὶ ῥοιᾶς φέρει καρπόν, ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐχ οἷά τε ἦν συμβαλέσθαι, τάχα δʼ ἂν Αἰγινήταις τισὶν ἐπιχώριος ἐς αὐτὰ ἂν εἴη λόγος.
μετὰ δὲ τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ὃν Ἠλεῖοί φασιν οὐ γραφῆναι μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων, ὅτι ἐπὶ κάλπης ἀνηγορεύθη δρόμῳ, μετὰ τούτου τὴν εἰκόνα Ξενοκλῆς τε Μαινάλιος ἕστηκε παλαιστὰς καταβαλὼν παῖδας καὶ Ἄλκετος Ἀλκίνου κρατήσας πυγμῇ παῖδας, Ἀρκὰς καὶ οὗτος ἐκ Κλείτορος· καὶ τοῦ μὲν Κλέων, Ξενοκλέους δὲ τὸν ἀνδριάντα Πολύκλειτός ἐστιν εἰργασμένος.
Ἀριστεὺς δὲ Ἀργεῖος δολίχου μὲν νίκην ἔσχεν αὐτός, πάλης δὲ ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Ἀριστέως Χείμων· ἑστήκασι μὲν δὴ ἐγγὺς ἀλλήλων, ἐποίησε δὲ τὸν μὲν Παντίας Χῖος παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ δεδιδαγμένος Σωστράτῳ, αἱ δὲ εἰκόνες τοῦ Χείμωνος ἔργον ἐστὶν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν τῶν δοκιμωτάτων Ναυκύδους, ἥ τε ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ καὶ ἡ ἐς τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Εἰρήνης τὸ ἐν Ῥώμῃ κομισθεῖσα ἐξ Ἄργους. λέγεται δὲ ὡς Ταυροσθένην καταπαλαίσειεν ὁ Χείμων τὸν Αἰγινήτην καὶ ὡς Ταυροσθένης τῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι τῇ ἐφεξῆς καταβάλοι τοὺς ἐσελθόντας ἐς τὴν πάλην καὶ ὡς ἐοικὸς Ταυροσθένει φάσμα ἐπʼ ἐκείνης τῆς ἡμέρας ἐν Αἰγίνῃ φανὲν ἀπαγγείλειε τὴν νίκην.
Φίλλην δὲ Ἠλεῖον κρατήσαντα παῖδας πάλῃ Σπαρτιάτης Κρατῖνος ἐποίησε. τὰ δὲ ἐς τὸ ἅρμα τὸ Γέλωνος οὐ κατὰ ταὐτὰ δοξάζειν ἐμοί τε παρίστατο καὶ τοῖς πρότερον ἢ ἐγὼ τὰ ἐς αὐτὸ εἰρηκόσιν, οἳ Γέλωνος τοῦ ἐν Σικελίᾳ τυραννήσαντός φασιν ἀνάθημα εἶναι τὸ ἅρμα. ἐπίγραμμα μὲν δή ἐστιν αὐτῷ Γέλωνα Δεινομένους ἀναθεῖναι Γελῷον, καὶ ὁ χρόνος τούτῳ τῷ Γέλωνί ἐστι τῆς νίκης τρίτη πρὸς τὰς ἑβδομήκοντα Ὀλυμπιάδας·
Γέλων δὲ ὁ Σικελίας τυραννήσας Συρακούσας ἔσχεν Ὑβριλίδου μὲν Ἀθήνῃσιν ἄρχοντος, δευτέρῳ δὲ ἔτει τῆς δευτέρας καὶ ἑβδομηκοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, ἣν Τισικράτης ἐνίκα Κροτωνιάτης στάδιον. δῆλα οὖν ὡς Συρακούσιον ἤδη καὶ οὐ Γελῷον ἀναγορεύειν αὑτὸν ἔμελλεν· ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἰδιώτης εἴη ἄν τις ὁ Γέλων οὗτος, πατρός τε ὁμωνύμου τῷ τυράννῳ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁμώνυμος. Γλαυκίας δὲ Αἰγινήτης τό τε ἅρμα καὶ αὐτῷ τῷ Γέλωνι ἐποίησε τὴν εἰκόνα.
τῇ δὲ Ὀλυμπιάδι τῇ πρὸ ταύτης Κλεομήδην φασὶν Ἀστυπαλαιέα ὡς Ἴκκῳ πυκτεύων ἀνδρὶ Ἐπιδαυρίῳ τὸν Ἴκκον ἀποκτείνειεν ἐν τῇ μάχῃ, καταγνωσθεὶς δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλανοδικῶν ἄδικα εἰργάσθαι καὶ ἀφῃρημένος τὴν νίκην ἔκφρων ἐγένετο ὑπὸ τῆς λύπης καὶ ἀνέστρεψε μὲν ἐς Ἀστυπάλαιαν, διδασκαλείῳ δʼ ἐπιστὰς ἐνταῦθα ὅσον ἑξήκοντα ἀριθμὸν παίδων ἀνατρέπει τὸν κίονα ὃς τὸν ὄροφον ἀνεῖχεν.
ἐμπεσόντος δὲ τοῦ ὀρόφου τοῖς παισί, καταλιθούμενος ὑπὸ τῶν ἀστῶν κατέφυγεν ἐς Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερόν· ἐσβάντος δὲ ἐς κιβωτὸν κειμένην ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ καὶ ἐφελκυσαμένου τὸ ἐπίθημα, κάματον ἐς ἀνωφελὲς οἱ Ἀστυπαλαιεῖς ἔκαμνον ἀνοίγειν τὴν κιβωτὸν πειρώμενοι· τέλος δὲ τὰ ξύλα τῆς κιβωτοῦ καταρρήξαντες, ὡς οὔτε ζῶντα Κλεομήδην οὔτε τεθνεῶτα εὕρισκον, ἀποστέλλουσιν ἄνδρας ἐς Δελφοὺς ἐρησομένους ὁποῖα ἐς Κλεομήδην τὰ συμβάντα ἦν.
τούτοις χρῆσαι τὴν Πυθίαν φασίν· ὕστατος ἡρώων Κλεομήδης Ἀστυπαλαιεύς, / ὃν θυσίαις τιμᾶθʼ ἅτε μηκέτι θνητὸν ἐόντα. / Κλεομήδει μὲν οὖν Ἀστυπαλαιεῖς ἀπὸ τούτου τιμὰς ὡς ἥρωι νέμουσι·
παρὰ δὲ τοῦ Γέλωνος τὸ ἅρμα ἀνάκειται Φίλων, τέχνη τοῦ Αἰγινήτου Γλαυκίου. τούτῳ τῷ Φίλωνι Σιμωνίδης ὁ Λεωπρέπους ἐλεγεῖον δεξιώτατον ἐποίησε· πατρὶς μὲν Κόρκυρα, Φίλων δʼ ὄνομʼ· εἰμὶ δὲ Γλαύκου / υἱὸς καὶ νικῶ πὺξ δύʼ Ὀλυμπιάδας. / ἀνάκειται καὶ Μαντινεὺς Ἀγαμήτωρ, κρατήσας πυγμῇ παῖδας.
Theognetus, an Aeginetan, won a crown in the boys’ wrestling-match, and his statue is by Ptolichus, an Aeginetan. Ptolichus was taught by his father Synnoon, and Synnoon by Aristocles, a Sicyonian, brother of Canachus, and not much inferior to him in reputation. Why Theognetus is represented carrying a cone of the cultivated pine-tree and a pomegranate I could not conjecture, but perhaps the Aeginetans may have some story of their own about him. After the statue of the man whose name, the Eleans say, was not recorded with the rest because he had won in the trotting-race, there is a statue of Xenocles, a Maenalian, a victor in the boys’ wrestling-match, and one of Alcetus, son of Alcinous, who won the boys’ boxing-match; he also was an Arcadian from Clitor. His statue is by Cleon, that of Xenocles is by Polyclitus. Aristeus, an Argive, won a victory in the long foot-race, and his father Chimon won a victory in wrestling. Their statues stand near each other: the statue of Aristeus is by Pantias, a Chian, who was taught by his father Sostratus. The statues of Chimon are, it seems to me, amongst the finest works of Naucydes: the one is the statue at Olympia, the other is the statue which was taken from Argos to the sanctuary of Peace in Rome. It is said that Chimon beat Taurosthenes, the Aeginetan, in wrestling, and that in the next Olympiad Taurosthenes overthrew all comers in the wrestling-match, and that on the very same day a phantom in the likeness of Taurosthenes appeared in Aegina and announced the victory. The statue of Philles, an Elean, a victor in the boys’ wrestling-match, is by Cratinus, a Spartan.
With regard to the chariot of Gelo, I formed a different opinion from that of those who have spoken on the subject before me. According to them the chariot is an offering of Gelo the Sicilian tyrant. Now the inscription on the chariot states that it was dedicated by Gelo of Gela, son of Dinomenes, and the date of this Gelo’s victory is the seventy-third Olympiad. But Gelo, tyrant of Sicily, got possession of Syracuse when Hybrilides was archon at Athens, in the second year of the seventy-second Olympiad, in which Tisicrates of Croton won the foot-race. Clearly, then, Gelo would have proclaimed himself as of Syracuse, not of Gela. So this Gelo must be some private person, who bore the same name as the tyrant, and whose father bore the same name as the tyrant’s father. The chariot and statue of Gelo are by Glaucias of Aegina. 3. They say that in the previous Olympiad Cleomedes of Astypalaea, in boxing with Iccus, an Epidaurian, killed him. Being condemned by the umpires for foul play, and deprived of his prize, he went mad with grief. Returning to Astypalaea, and going to a school there in which there were about sixty children, he pulled down the pillar which propped the roof. The roof fell on the children, and he, being pelted with stones by the townspeople, took refuge in the sanctuary of Athena. He stepped into a chest which stood in the sanctuary, and drew down the lid, and the people laboured in vain to open the chest. At last they broke open the woodwork, and finding no Cleomedes in it either alive or dead, they sent men to Delphi to ask what had become of him. They say that the Pythian priestess answered them :— Last of the heroes is Cleomedes of Astypalaea : Him honour with sacrifices as no longer a mortal. Accordingly since then the Astypaleans pay honour to him as a hero. Beside the chariot of Gelo is a statue of Philo, a work of Glaucias the Aeginetan. On this Philo a very clever couplet was composed by Simonides, son of Leoprepes :— My native land is Corcyra; Philon’s my name; I am Glaucus’ Son, and am victor in boxing in two Olympiads. There is also a statue of Agametor, a Mantinean, who gained a victory in the boys’ boxing-match.
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