Volume 2

Pausanias' Description of Greece / translated into English with notes and index by Arthur Richard Shilleto.

  • Pausânias
Date:
1900
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Credit: Pausanias' Description of Greece / translated into English with notes and index by Arthur Richard Shilleto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but has not acquired equal renown. For Daedalus, an Athenian of the royal stock called Metionidae, was most remarkable of ali men for his art and misfortunes. For liaving killed bis sister’s son, and knowing the vengeance that awaited him in his country, he became a voluntary exile and fled to Minos and Oete, and made works of art for Minos and his daughters, as Homer has described in the Iliad. But being condemned for treason against Minos, and thrown into prison with his son, he escaped from Crete and went to Inycns, a city of Sicily, to the conrt of Cocalus, and caused a war between the Sicilians and Cretans, becanse Cocalus would not give him up at the request of Minos. And so much beloved was he by the daughters of Cocalus for his art, that these ladies entered into a plot against the life of Minos out of favour to Daeda- lns. And it is plain that his fame extended over ali Sicily, and most of Italy. While Smilis, except among the Samians and at Elea, had no fame whatever out of his own country; bnt he went to Samos, and there he made the statue of Hera. Abont Chios Ion the Tragedian has recorded that Posei- don went to that island when it was unoccupied, and had an intrigue there with a Nymph, and when she was in labour some snow feli, and so Poseidon called the boy Chios.1 By another Nymph he had Agelus and Melas. And in process of time CEnopion sailed to Chios from Crete with his sons Talus and Euanthes and Melas and Salagus and Athamas. And during the reign of CEnopion some Carians came to the island, and the Abantes from Euboei. And CEnopion and his sons were succeeded by Araphiclus, who came to Chios from Histiaea in Euboea in accordanco with the oracle at Delphi. And Hector the fourth in descent from Amphiclus, (for he too was king of Chios), fought against the Abintes and Carians that were stili in the island, and slew some in various battles, and compelled others to leave the island upon conditions of war. And after the Chians had finished the war, then Hector bethougbt him that he and the Ionians ought to jointly sacrifice to the welfare of the Pan-Ionie league. And Ion says he 1 The Gretk for snow is chion. Ilenee tlio paronomasia.
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