Pausanias Description of Greece 1.14.4

[4] In front of the temple [ nāos], where is also the statue [ agalma] of Triptolemos, is a bronze bull being led as it were to sacrifice [ thusiā], and what has been made [ pe-poíētai] there is a seated figure of Epimenides of Knossos, who they say came to a field [ agros], entered a cave [ spēlaion] there, and fell-asleep [ koimâsthai]. The sleep [ hupnos] did not leave him before the fortieth year, and afterwards he made [ poieîn] verses [ epē] and purified [ kathairein] Athens and other cities. But Thales, who stopped the plague [ nosos] for the Lacedaemonians, was not related to Epimenides in any way, and did not belong to the same city. The one I mentioned first was from Knossos, but Thales was from Gortyn, according to Polymnastos of Kolophon, who composed [ poieîn] verses [ epē] with reference to him for the Lacedaemonians.