In the year 1070 before the founding of the City, the Telchines and Caryatii fought a stubborn battle against Phoroneus, king of the Argives, and the Parrhasians, with wavering hope and no fruit of victory.
1 Ante annos urbis conditae MLXX Telchises et Caryatii peruicax proelium aduersus Foroneum, regem Argiuorum, et Parrhasios ancipiti spe sine fructu uictoriae gesserunt.
Shortly afterwards these same Telchines, beaten in war, fled their homeland and, knowing nothing of the world, believing that they were withdrawing themselves entirely from all contact with human habitation, seized the island of Rhodes, formerly called Ophiussa, as if it were a safe possession.
2 idemque Telchises post paululum bello uicti, patria profugi ignarique rerum, credentes quia se penitus a congressu totius humanae habitationis abstraherent, Rhodum insulam quae Offiussa antea uocabatur quasi tuta possessione ceperunt.
In the year 1040 before the founding of the City there was a savage flood in Achaea, which laid waste most of almost the whole province. Because it poured forth in the times of Ogyges, who was then founder and king of Eleusis, it gave his name to the place and to the period.
3 Ante annos urbis conditae MXL in Achaia saeuum diluuium uastatione plurima totius paene prouinciae fuit. quod quia Ogygii, qui tunc Eleusinae conditor et rex erat, temporibus effusum est, nomen loco ac tempori dedit.