Τὸ δὲ δ΄ διεξέρχεται ὡς Ἑλένη πρώτη ἐπενόησε τὸν διὰ δακτύλων κλῆρον, καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ λαχοῦσα ἐνίκησε· καὶ ὡς Ἀφροδίτης εἴη θυγάτηρ.
The fourth goes through how Helen was the first to devise the casting of lots with the fingers, and, casting lots against Alexander (Paris), won [?]; and how she was a daughter of Aphrodite.
καὶ ὡς Ἑλένης καὶ Ἀχιλλέως ἐν μακάρων νήσοις παῖς πτερωτὸς γεγόνοι, ὃν διὰ τὸ τῆς χώρας εὔφορον Εὐφορίωνα ὠνόμασαν· καὶ ὡς ἐρᾷ τούτου Ζεύς, καὶ ἀποτυχὼν κεραυνοῖ ἐν Μήλῳ τῇ νήσῳ καταλαβὼν διωκόμενον, καὶ τὰς νύμφας, ὅτι θάψειαν αὐτόν, εἰς βατράχους μετέβαλε.
And how a winged child was born to Helen and Achilles in the Isles of the Blessed, whom they named Euphorion because of the fruitfulness of the land; and how Zeus loved him, and, being rejected, strikes him with a thunderbolt on the island of Melos when he caught him as he fled, and changed the nymphs, because they had buried him, into frogs.
καὶ ὡς κυνηγοῦσαν Ἑλένην ἔνιοί φασιν ἐν τῷ Παρθενίῳ ὄρει ἁρπασθῆναι ὑπ' Ἀλεξάνδρου, καὶ ἐκπλαγεῖσαν τὸ κάλλος ἀκολουθῆσαι ὡς θεῷ.
And how some say that Helen, while hunting on Mount Parthenion, was seized by Alexander (Paris), and, struck by his beauty, followed him as if he were a god.
περὶ τοῦ κεστοῦ ἱμάντος, ὡς λάβοι μὲν αὐτὸν Ἥρα παρὰ Ἀφροδίτης, δοίη δ' Ἑλένῃ, κλέψοι δ' αὐτὸν ἡ Ἑλένης θεράπαινα Ἀστυάνασσα, ἀφέλοι δ' αὐτὸν ἐξ αὐτῆς πάλιν Ἀφροδίτη.
About the embroidered girdle (kestos himas), how Hera received it from Aphrodite and gave it to Helen, and Helen's servant Astyanassa stole it, and Aphrodite took it away from her again.
τί ἐστι τὸ παρ' Ὁμήρῳ περὶ τῆς Ἑλένης εἰρημένον „πάντων Ἀργείων φωνὴν ἴσκουσ' ἀλόχοισιν."
What is the line in Homer about Helen, "imitating the voice of all the Argives, [to their wives]".
ὡς Ἡλίου θυγάτηρ καὶ Λήδας Ἑλένη, ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Λεοντή.
How Helen was a daughter of Helios and Leda, and was called Leonte ("Lioness").
καὶ ὡς κατ' ὀργὴν Ἀφροδίτης τὴν πρὸς Μενέλαον τὴν ἁρπαγὴν λέγουσιν Ἑλένης γενέσθαι, ἐπεὶ ὑποσχόμενος Ἀφροδίτῃ ἑκατόμβην ὑπὲρ τοῦ γάμου οὐκ ἀπέδωκε.
And how they say that the carrying off of Helen from Menelaus came about through the anger of Aphrodite, because Menelaus had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb for his marriage and did not pay it.
περὶ τῆς Ἑλενείας βοτάνης, ἣ ἐν Ῥόδῳ φύεται, ὅτι τε ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑλένης ἐπωνομάσθη (παρὰ γὰρ τὴν δρῦν ὤφθη φυεῖσα, ἀφ' ἧς ἑαυτὴν ἀπήγξεν Ἑλένη) καὶ ὡς οἱ φαγόντες αὐτῆς πάντως εἰς ἔριν καθίστανται.
About the plant called Heleneia, which grows in Rhodes, both that it was named from Helen (for it was seen growing beside the oak from which Helen hanged herself) and that those who eat of it always fall into strife.
ὡς Μενελάῳ ἠράσθη Ἑλένη, καὶ οὕτως ἔγημεν αὐτήν.
How Helen fell in love with Menelaus, and so he married her.
ὡς ἔνιοι τὴν Ἑλένην φασὶ παραγενομένην εἰς Ταύρους τῆς Σκυθίας σὺν Μενελάῳ ἐπὶ τὴν Ὀρέστου ζήτησιν σφαγιασθῆναι ὑπὸ Ἰφιγενείας τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι σὺν Μενελάῳ· „οἱ δὲ φασιν ὡς Θέτις αὐτὴν ἀνέλοι ἐν τῷ ἀπόπλῳ τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἀπεικασθεῖσα φώκῃ.
How some say that Helen, having come to the Taurians in Scythia with Menelaus in search of Orestes, was sacrificed by Iphigenia to Artemis together with Menelaus; but others say that Thetis killed her on the voyage home of the Greeks, having made herself like a seal.
φασὶ δ' Ἠχὼ μὲν τὴν Ἑλένην τὸ κύριον κληθῆναι διὰ τὸ φωνόμιμον αὐτὴν γενέσθαι, Ἑλένην δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν ἕλει ὑπὸ Λήδας τεχθῆναι.
They say that Echo was Helen's proper name, because she was an imitator of voices, and that she was called Helen from having been born of Leda in a marsh (helos).
ὅτι ὁ ἐν Λακεδαίμονι τόπος τὸ Σανδάλιον ἀπὸ τοῦ τῆς Ἑλένης σανδαλίου, ἐκπεσόντος αὐτῆς ἐν αὐτῷ διωκομένης ὑπ' Ἀλεξάνδρου, ἕλκει τὴν κλῆσιν.
That the place in Lacedaemon called Sandalion takes its name from Helen's sandal, which fell off there as she was being chased by Alexander (Paris).
ὡς γένοιτο παῖς θήλεια ἐξ Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἑλένῃ, διαφιλονεικησάντων δὲ περὶ τῆς κλήσεως (ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ἀλεξάνδραν, ἡ δ' Ἑλένην ὀνομάζειν ἠξίου) νικᾷ Ἑλένη, ἀστραγάλοις λαβοῦσα τὸ κῦρος, καὶ ἡ παῖς τῇ μητρὶ ὁμώνυμος ἐγεγόνει· ταύτην ἀναιρεθῆναι φασιν ὑπὸ Ἑκάβης ἐν τῇ Ἰλίου ἁλώσει.
How a girl was born to Helen by Alexander (Paris), and as they disputed over her name (he wished to call her Alexandra, she Helen), Helen wins, taking the decision by knucklebones, and the girl became the namesake of her mother; they say she was killed by Hecuba at the capture of Ilium.
ὅτι ἀπὸ τῶν Ἰλιακῶν ὀνομασταὶ γεγόνασιν Ἑλέναι ἥ τε Αἰγίσθου καὶ Κλυταιμνήστρας θυγάτηρ, ἣν ἀνεῖλεν Ὀρέστης, καὶ ἡ διακονήσασα Ἀφροδίτῃ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ἄδωνιν ὁμιλίᾳ, ἡ Ἐπιδαμνίου θυγάτηρ, ἣν Ἐπιδάμνιοι ἐν Ἀφροδίτης σχήματι τιμῶσι, χρήματα λιμώττουσιν ἐπιδοῦσαν, καὶ ἡ Φαιστύλου θυγάτηρ τοῦ ἀναθρεψαμένου Ῥῶμον καὶ Ῥωμύλον.
That from the Trojan story women called Helen became famous: the daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, whom Orestes killed; the one who served Aphrodite in her meeting with Adonis; the daughter of Epidamnus, whom the Epidamnians honour in the guise of Aphrodite because she gave money to them when they were starving; and the daughter of Faustulus, who reared Remus and Romulus.
καὶ ἡ τρεῖς ἐρίφους ἐσθίουσα καθ' ἡμέραν Ἑλένη ἐκαλεῖτο, καὶ ἡ Δικαιάρχου τοῦ Τελεσίνου ἀδελφή, „καὶ ἕτεραι ὀκτωκαίδεκα, ὧν καὶ ἡ πρὸ Ὁμήρου Ἑλένη, ἡ τὸν Ἰλιακὸν συγγραψαμένη πόλεμον, Μουσαίου τοῦ Ἀθηναίου θυγάτηρ γενομένη· παρ' ἧς καὶ Ὅμηρον λέγεται λαβεῖν τὴν ὑπόθεσιν· ἣν καὶ κτήσασθαι τὸ δίγλωσσον ἀρνίον· καὶ ἡ Τιτύρου τοῦ Αἰτωλοῦ θυγάτηρ, ἥτις εἰς μονομαχίαν Ἀχιλλέα προκαλεσαμένη ἐκεῖνον μὲν κατὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς ἐγγὺς θανάτου τραύματι ἔτρωσεν, αὐτὴ δ' ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἀνῄρηται.
And the one who ate three kids a day was called Helen, and the sister of Dicaearchus, son of Telesinus [?]; "and eighteen others, among them the Helen before Homer, who wrote the Trojan war, being a daughter of Musaeus the Athenian; from her Homer too is said to have taken his subject; she also acquired the two-tongued lamb; and the daughter of Tityrus the Aetolian, who, having challenged Achilles to single combat, wounded him on the head with a wound close to death, but was herself killed by him.
καὶ ἡ ζωγράφος Ἑλένη τοῦ καταλόγου ἐστὶ τούτου, Τίμωνος τοῦ Αἰγυπτίου θυγάτηρ, ἥτις τὴν ἐν Ἰσσῷ μάχην, ἐν ἐκείνοις ἀκμάζουσα τοῖς χρόνοις, ἔγραψε· καὶ ἐν τῷ τῆς Εἰρήνης τεμένει ἐπὶ Οὐεσπασιανοῦ ἀνέκειτο ἡ γραφή.
And the painter Helen belongs to this catalogue, the daughter of Timon the Egyptian, who, flourishing in those times, painted the battle at Issus; and the painting was dedicated in the precinct of Peace in the time of Vespasian.
Ἀρχέλαος δὲ ὁ Κύπριος Στησιχόρου φησὶ τοῦ ποιητοῦ Ἑλένην Ἱμεραίαν ἐρωμένην γενέσθαι, Μικύθου θυγατέρα· ἀποστᾶσαν δὲ Στησιχόρου καὶ πρὸς Βούπαλον πορευθεῖσαν ἀμυνόμενον τῆς ὑπεροψίας τὸν ποιητὴν γράψαι ὡς Ἑλένη ἑκοῦσα ἀπῆρε· ψευδῆ δὲ τὸν περὶ τῆς πηρώσεως εἶναι λόγον.
Archelaus of Cyprus says that Helen of Himera, the daughter of Mikythos, was the beloved of the poet Stesichorus; that she left Stesichorus and went to Boupalus, and the poet, taking vengeance for the slight, wrote that Helen had gone away willingly; and that the story about his blinding is false.
περὶ τοῦ παρ' Ὁμήρῳ μώλυος τῆς βοτάνης, ἣν ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ ἀναιρεθέντος ἐν τῇ Κίρκης νήσῳ Γίγαντος λέγουσι φῦναι, ἣ καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἔχει λευκόν· ὅτι ὁ συμμαχῶν τῇ Κίρκῃ καὶ ἀνελὼν τὸν Γίγαντα ὁ Ἥλιος ἦν· μῶλος δ' ἡ μάχη, ἐξ οὗ καὶ ἡ βοτάνη.
About the plant moly in Homer, which they say grew from the blood of the Giant killed on Circe's island, and which has a white flower; that the one who fought on Circe's side and killed the Giant was Helios; and moly (molos) is the battle, whence the plant.
ὡς Διόνυσος ἐρώμενος Χείρωνος, ἐξ οὗ καὶ μάθοι τούς τε κώμους καὶ τὰς βακχείας καὶ τὰς τελετάς.
How Dionysus was the beloved of Chiron, from whom he also learned the revels and the bacchic rites and the initiations.
περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ Ταραξίππου καὶ τῶν Μυρτίλλων πατρὸς καὶ παιδός.
About Taraxippus at Olympia, and about the Myrtili, father and son.
ὅτι τὸν ὑπὸ Φημονόης χρησμὸν μόνον Νεοπτόλεμον τὸν Μακιώτην παρὰ Αἴθου τινὸς τῶν Δελφῶν ἀκοῦσαι φασι· περὶ τούτου δὲ τοῦ Αἴθου καὶ Ἡρόδοτός φησιν ἐν πρώτῃ ἱστοριῶν ὅτι „εἰδὼς αὐτοῦ τὸ ὄνομα οὐκ ἐπιμνησθήσομαι."
That they say that Neoptolemus the Makiotes [?] alone heard the oracle given by Phemonoe from a certain Aethus, one of the Delphians; and about this Aethus Herodotus too says in the first book of the Histories that "knowing his name, I shall not mention it."
περὶ τῆς παρ' Ὁμήρῳ διωνυμίας παρὰ θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις, καὶ ὅτι Ξάνθος μόνος ποταμῶν Διὸς υἱός, καὶ περὶ ἄλλων διωνύμων.
About the double names in Homer among gods and men, and that Xanthus alone among rivers is a son of Zeus, and about other double names.
καὶ ὡς ἐν Τυρρηνίᾳ φασὶν εἶναι Ἁλὸς πύργον καλούμενον, ὀνομασθῆναι δὲ ἀπὸ Ἁλὸς Τυρρηνῆς φαρμακίδος, ἣ Κίρκης θεράπαινα γενομένη διέδρα τῆς δεσποίνης.
And how they say that in Tyrrhenia there is a tower called "of Halos", named after Halos, a Tyrrhenian sorceress who, having been Circe's servant, ran away from her mistress.
πρὸς ταύτην δέ, φησί, παραγενόμενον τὸν Ὀδυσσέα εἰς ἵππον μετέβαλε τοῖς φαρμάκοις, καὶ ἔτρεφε παρ' ἑαυτῇ, ἕως γηράσας ἐτελεύτησεν.
To her, he says, Odysseus came, and she changed him with her drugs into a horse and kept him with herself until he died of old age.
ἐκ ταύτης τῆς ἱστορίας λύεται καὶ τὸ παρ' Ὁμήρῳ ἀπορούμενον „θάνατος δέ τοι ἐξ ἁλὸς αὐτῷ."
From this story the puzzle in Homer is solved, "and death shall come to you from the sea (halos)."
ἐν τούτοις μὲν καὶ τὸ δ΄ βιβλίον.
These are the contents of the fourth book as well.
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