Pherecydes Cyclopes

You can't actually find a good translation of this quote anywhere for some reason, so I had to make my own. The original Greek and Latin versions were pulled from dfhg-project.org, an online version of Karl Mueller's Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum. The F. H. G. compiles the quotations of Greek poets and authors that were preserved in other sources. The following quote is a scholion (basically an explanatory footnote) from an ancient annotated version of Euripides's play Alcestis. The scholion itself was quoting a now lost work of the 5th century BC mythographer Pherecydes of Athens.


Original Greek:
Φερεκύδης οὔ φησι τοὺς Κύκλωπας ὑπὸ Ἀπόλλωνος ἀνῃρῆσθαι, ἀλλὰ τοῦς υἱοὺς αὐτῶν, γράφων οὕτω· «Παρ ̓ αὐτὸν τὸν Ἄδμητον ἔρχεται Ἀπόλλων θητεύσων ἐνιαυτὸν, Διὸς κελεύσαντος, ὅτι κτείνει τοῦ Βρόντεω καὶ Στερόπεω καὶ Ἄργεω παῖδας. Κτείνει δὲ αὐτοὺς Ἀπόλλων, Διὶ μεμφθεὶς, ὅτι κτείνει Ζεὺς Ἀσκληπιὸν τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ κεραυνῷ ἐν Πυθῶνι. Ἀνέστησε γὰρ ἰώμενος τεθνεῶτας.»

Latin translation:
Ad hunc Admetum venit Apollo Jovis jussu per annum serviturus, quod Brontae et Steropae et Argae filios interfecerat. Eos autem interfecit Apollo Jovi iratus, quia Aesculapium filium in Pythia fulmine occiderat. Mortuos enim arte sua vita? reddidit.

English translation:
Pherecydes does not say that the Cyclopes were killed by Apollo, but their sons, writing as follows: "Apollo came to Admetus to serve him for a year at the command of Zeus, because he had killed the sons of Brontes, Steropes, and Argus. Apollo killed them in anger towards Zeus because he had struck down Asclepius, his son, in Pythia with lightning. For he restored the dead to life with his skill."


The Latin translation only covers the Pherecydes quote itself, not the sentence introducing it. That's why it's shorter. I made the English translation with a combination of translation software and my own Latin knowledge.