Ἐν δὲ τῷ ζ΄ περιέχεται ὡς Θεόδωρος ὁ Σαμοθρᾷξ τὸν Δία φησὶ γεννηθέντα ἐπὶ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας ἀκατάπαυστον γελάσαι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τέλειος ἐνομίσθη ὁ ἕβδομος ἀριθμός.
In the seventh is contained how Theodorus of Samothrace says that Zeus, when he was born, laughed without ceasing for seven days, and that for this reason the number seven was held to be perfect.
ὡς Ἀχιλλεὺς διὰ μὲν τὸ ἐκ πυρὸς αὐτὸν σωθῆναι καιόμενον ὑπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Πυρίσσοος ἐκαλεῖτο, διότι δὲ ἓν τῶν χειλέων αὐτοῦ κατακαυθείη, Ἀχιλλεὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ὠνομάσθη.
How Achilles, because he was saved from the fire when his mother was burning him, was called Pyrisoos ("saved by fire"), but because one of his lips had been burned he was named Achilles by his father.
ὅτι Τηλέμαχον Ὀδυσσέως υἱὸν μαθοῦσαι εἶναι ἀνεῖλον αἱ Σειρῆνες.
That the Sirens killed Telemachus when they learned that he was the son of Odysseus.
ὡς Ὀδυσσεὺς ἐν Τυρρηνίᾳ ἠγωνίσατο αὐλητικήν, καὶ ἐνίκησεν· ηὔλησε δὲ Ἰλίου ἅλωσιν, Δημοδόκου ποίημα.
How Odysseus competed in flute-playing in Tyrrhenia and won; and he played "The Capture of Ilium", a poem of Demodocus.
ὡς Στίχιος ὁ Αἰτωλός, ἐρώμενος ὢν Ἡρακλέους, εὑρέθη ἀνασχισθεὶς τετριχωμένην ἔχων τὴν καρδίαν· ἀνῃρέθη δ' ὑπ' αὐτοῦ Ἡρακλέους, ὅτε μανεὶς καὶ τοὺς ἰδίους ἀνεῖλε παῖδας· καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ μόνῳ φασὶ θρηνῆσαι τὸν ἥρωα.
How Stichius the Aetolian, the beloved of Heracles, was found, when cut open, to have a hairy heart; he was killed by Heracles himself, when in his madness he killed his own children; and for him alone, they say, the hero wept.
ὡς Ἑρμῆς Πολυδεύκους ἑνὸς τῶν Διοσκούρων γεγονὼς ἐραστὴς ἐδωρήσατο αὐτῷ Δώτορα τὸν Θεσσαλὸν ἵππον.
How Hermes, having become the lover of Polydeuces, one of the Dioscuri, gave him as a gift the Thessalian horse Dotor.
ὅτι Ἀπόλλωνος ἐπιτελοῦντος ἐπιτάφιον Πύθωνι παλαίει Ἑρμῆς καὶ Ἀφροδίτη, καὶ κρατήσασα ἆθλον ἔλαβε κιθάραν, ἣν καὶ ἐδωρήσατο Ἀλεξάνδρῳ· περὶ ἧς καὶ Ὅμηρος „οὐκ ἂν τοι χραίσμῃ κίθαρις" καὶ ἑξῆς.
That when Apollo was performing a funeral rite for Python, Hermes and Aphrodite wrestle, and Aphrodite, winning, received the lyre as the prize, which she also gave to Alexander (Paris); and about it Homer also says "the lyre will not help you" and what follows.
τί ἐστι τὸ παρὰ Βακχυλίδῃ ὡς ἀπὸ Σειληνοῦ εἰρημένον, καὶ πρὸς τίνα εἶπε τὸ ἔπος.
What is the saying in Bacchylides, spoken as if by Silenus, and to whom he addressed the verse.
ὡς ἡ Λευκὰς πέτρα ἀπὸ Λεύκου τοῦ Ὀδυσσέως ἑταίρου τὴν κλῆσιν ἔλαβεν, ὃς Ζακύνθιος μὲν γένος ἦν, ἀνῃρέθη δ', ὡς φησὶν ὁ ποιητής, ὑπ' Ἀντίφου· τοῦτον ἱδρύσασθαι φασι καὶ ἱερὸν Λευκάτου Ἀπόλλωνος.
How the Leucadian rock took its name from Leucus, the companion of Odysseus, who was a Zacynthian by birth and was killed, as the poet says, by Antiphus; they say that this man founded a sanctuary of Apollo Leucatas [?].
τοὺς μὲν οὖν καθαλλομένους ἀπὸ τῆς πέτρας παύεσθαι φασι τοῦ ἔρωτος.
Those who leap down from the rock, they say, cease from love.
καὶ ἡ αἰτία· μετὰ τὸν Ἀδώνιδός φασι θάνατον περιερχομένη καὶ ζητοῦσα ἡ Ἀφροδίτη εὗρεν αὐτὸν ἐν Ἄργει πόλει τῆς Κύπρου, ἐν τῷ τοῦ Ἐριθίου Ἀπόλλωνος ἱερῷ, καὶ ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν, ἀνακοινωσαμένη Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ τὸν περὶ Ἀδώνιδος ἔρωτα.
And the reason is this: they say that after the death of Adonis Aphrodite, wandering about and searching, found him in Argos, a city of Cyprus, in the sanctuary of Apollo Erithios [?], and took him up [?], having also told Apollo of her love for Adonis.
ὁ δ' Ἀπόλλων ἀγαγὼν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τὴν Λευκάδα πέτραν προσέταξε ῥῖψαι κατὰ τῆς πέτρας· ἡ δὲ ἑαυτὴν ῥίψασα ἐπαύσατο τοῦ ἔρωτος.
Apollo led her to the Leucadian rock and ordered her to throw herself down from the rock; and she, having thrown herself down, ceased from her love.
ζητούσης δὲ τὴν αἰτίαν εἰπεῖν λέγεται τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα, ὡς μάντις ὢν ἐγνώκει διότι ὁ Ζεὺς ἀεὶ ἐρῶν Ἥρας ἐρχόμενος ἐπὶ τῇ πέτρᾳ ἐκαθέζετο καὶ ἀνεπαύετο τοῦ ἔρωτος.
And when she asked the reason, Apollo is said to have told her that, being a seer, he knew that Zeus, always in love with Hera, used to come to the rock, sit down there and find rest from his love.
καὶ πολλοὶ δὲ ἄλλοι καὶ πολλαὶ ἔρωτι κάμνουσαι ἀπηλλάγησαν τοῦ ἔρωτος, ἐπεὶ τῆς πέτρας καθήλαντο.
Many other men and many women, too, suffering from love, were freed from their love because they leapt from the rock.
ὡς καὶ Ἀρτεμισία ἡ Λυγδάμιδος, ἡ τῷ Πέρσῃ συστρατεύσασα, ἐρασθεῖσα Δαρδάνου Ἀβυδηνοῦ καὶ ὑπερορωμένη ἐκκόψειε τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς κοιμωμένου, τῆς δ' ἐπιθυμίας κατὰ θεῶν μῆνιν ἐπιταθείσης πορευθεῖσα κατὰ χρησμὸν εἰς Λευκάδα ἔρριψεν ἑαυτὴν κατὰ τῆς πέτρας καὶ ἀναιρεθεῖσα ἐτάφη.
So also Artemisia, the daughter of Lygdamis, who campaigned with the Persian king, having fallen in love with Dardanus of Abydos and being slighted, put out his eyes while he slept, but when her desire was intensified by the wrath of the gods she went, by an oracle, to Leucas and threw herself down from the rock, and, killed, was buried.
καὶ Ἱππομέδοντά φησιν Ἐπιδάμνιον, παιδὸς ἐγχωρίου ἐρασθέντα καὶ μὴ τυγχάνοντα, ὅτι πρὸς ἕτερον κλίνειεν, ἀνελεῖν, εἰς δὲ τὴν Λευκάδα παραγενόμενον καὶ ῥίψαντα αὐτὸν ἀποθανεῖν.
And he says that Hippomedon of Epidamnus, in love with a local boy and not getting him because the boy inclined to another, killed him, and, having come to Leucas and thrown himself down, died.
καὶ Νικόστρατον δὲ τὸν κωμικὸν Τεττιγιδαίας τῆς Μυριναίας ἐρασθέντα ῥῖψαι ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἀπαλλαγῆναι τοῦ ἔρωτος.
And that Nicostratus the comic poet, in love with Tettigidaia of Myrina, threw himself down and was freed from his love.
Μάκητα δέ φασι τὸν Βουθρώτιον Λευκοπέτραν ἐπικληθῆναι, διότι τετράκις αὐτὸν καταβαλὼν τῶν ἐρωτικῶν κακώσεων ἀπαλλάττοιτο.
They say that Makes of Buthrotum was surnamed Leucopetras ("White-rock") because he threw himself down four times and was freed from the afflictions of love.
καὶ πλῆθος ἄλλο οὕτως ἀπαλλαγῆναι λέγεται.
A multitude of others are said to have been freed in this way.
καὶ Βουλαγόραν δὲ τὸν Φαναγορίτην, ἐρασθέντα Διοδώρου τοῦ αὐλητοῦ, καταβαλόντα αὑτὸν ἀναιρεθῆναι γηραιὸν ἤδη ὄντα.
And Boulagoras of Phanagoria, in love with Diodorus the flute-player, having thrown himself down, was killed, being already an old man.
ἀναιρεθῆναι δὲ καὶ Ῥοδόπην Ἀμισηνὴν καταβαλοῦσαν ἑαυτήν, διδύμων παίδων σωματοφυλάκων Ἀντιόχου τοῦ βασιλέως ἐρασθεῖσαν, οἷς ὀνόματα Ἀντιφῶν καὶ Κῦρος.
Rhodope of Amisus, too, was killed, having thrown herself down, in love with twin sons, bodyguards of King Antiochus, whose names were Antiphon and Cyrus.
Χαρῖνος δὲ ἰαμβογράφος ἠράσθη Ἔρωτος εὐνούχου τοῦ Εὐπάτορος οἰνοχόου, καὶ πιστεύσας τῷ περὶ τῆς πέτρας λόγῳ κατέβαλεν ἑαυτόν· ἐπεὶ δὲ καταβαλὼν τὸ σκέλος κατεάγη καὶ ὑπὸ ὀδύνης ἐτελεύτα, ἀπέρριψε τάδε τὰ ἰάμβεια, ἔρροις, πλανῆτι καὶ κακὴ πέτρη Λευκάς.
The iambic poet Charinus fell in love with Eros, the eunuch cup-bearer of Eupator, and, trusting the story about the rock, threw himself down; but when, having thrown himself down, he broke his leg and was dying of pain, he flung away these iambics: "Be off with you, wandering and wicked Leucadian rock.
Χαρῖνον, αἴ αἴ, τὴν ἰαμβικὴν Μοῦσαν, κατηθάλωσας ἐλπίδος κενοῖς μύθοις.
Charinus, alas, the iambic Muse, you have scorched [?] with the empty tales of hope.
τοιαῦτ' Ἔρωτος Εὐπάτωρ ἐρασθείη.
May Eupator suffer such things in loving Eros."
Νιρεὺς δὲ Καταναῖος ἠράσθη τῆς Ἀττικῆς Ἀθηναίας, καὶ ἐλθὼν κατέβαλεν ἑαυτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς πέτρας, καὶ ἀπελύθη τοῦ διοχλοῦντος, πεσὼν δ' οὖν εἰς δίκτυον ἐνέπεσεν ἁλιέως, ἐν ᾧ ἀνειλκύσθη σὺν κιβωτῷ χρυσίου.
Nireus of Catane fell in love with the Attic Athena [?], and went and threw himself down from the rock, and was freed from what troubled him; but in falling he fell into the net of a fisherman, in which he was hauled up together with a chest of gold.
ἐπεδικάζετο δὲ πρὸς τὸν ἁλιέα περὶ τοῦ χρυσίου· ἀλλ' ὁ Ἀπόλλων νυκτερινῇ ὄψει ἀπέστησεν αὐτὸν τοῦ ἐπιδικάζεσθαι, δέον εὐχαριστεῖν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀπαλλαγῆς, ἀπειλησάμενος, ἀλλὰ μὴ καὶ ἀλλότριον περιεργάζεσθαι χρυσίον.
He brought a claim against the fisherman over the gold; but Apollo, by a vision at night, made him give up the claim, when he ought rather to be thankful for his deliverance, and threatened him not to meddle with another man's gold as well.
„Πᾶνά φασιν ἰχθὺν εἶναι θαλάσσιον κητώδη, ὅμοιον τῷ Πανὶ κατὰ τὴν ὄψιν· ἐν τούτῳ λίθον εὑρίσκεσθαι τὸν ἀστερίτην, ὃν εἰς ἥλιον τεθέντα ἀνάπτεσθαι, ποιεῖν δὲ καὶ πρὸς φίλτρον.
"They say that Pan is a sea-fish of whale-like kind, similar to Pan in appearance; in it is found the stone called asterites, which, set in the sun, takes fire, and is also effective as a love-charm.
τοῦτον δὴ τὸν λίθον εἶχεν Ἑλένη, γλυφὴν ἔχοντα αὐτὸν τὸν ἰχθὺν τὸν Πᾶνα, καὶ ταύτῃ ἐκέχρητο τῇ σφραγῖδι.
This very stone Helen had, with the fish itself, Pan, engraved on it, and she used it as her seal.
ἐν οἷς καὶ τὸ ζ΄ τῆς Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Ἡφαιστίωνος εἰς πολυμαθίαν καινῆς ἱστορίας τὰ κεφάλαια.
In these are also the chapters of the seventh book of Ptolemy, son of Hephaestion, on the New History for wide learning.
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