Passage 6.11.2
τῶν δὲ βασιλέων τῶν εἰρημένων ἕστηκεν οὐ πόρρω Θεαγένης ὁ Τιμοσθένους Θάσιος· Θάσιοι δὲ οὐ Τιμοσθένους παῖδα εἶναι Θεαγένην φασίν, ἀλλὰ ἱερᾶσθαι μὲν Ἡρακλεῖ τὸν Τιμοσθένην Θασίῳ, τοῦ Θεαγένους δὲ τῇ μητρὶ Ἡρακλέους συγγενέσθαι φάσμα ἐοικὸς Τιμοσθένει. ἔνατόν τε δὴ ἔτος εἶναι τῷ παιδὶ καὶ αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν διδασκάλων φασὶν ἐς τὴν οἰκίαν ἐρχόμενον ἄγαλμα ὅτου δὴ θεῶν ἀνακείμενον ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ χαλκοῦν---χαίρειν γὰρ τῷ ἀγάλματι αὐτόν---, ἀνασπάσαι τε δὴ τὸ ἄγαλμα καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἕτερον τῶν ὤμων ἀναθέμενον ἐνεγκεῖν παρʼ αὑτόν.
Not far from the mentioned kings stands a statue of Theagenes, son of Timosthenes, a Thasian. But the Thasians say that Theagenes was not actually the son of Timosthenes. Rather, Timosthenes, they assert, was a priest of Heracles Thasius, and a divine apparition resembling Heracles appeared to the mother of Theagenes in the likeness of Timosthenes. They also report that when the boy was nine years old, as he was returning home from school, he took a liking to a bronze statue of one of the gods set up in the marketplace—indeed, he was particularly fond of the statue—lifted it up, placed it upon one of his shoulders, and carried it home.