Passage 9.41.1
ὁπόσα δὲ εἶναι τῶν Ἡφαίστου ποιηταί τε ᾄδουσι καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἠκολούθηκεν ἡ φήμη, τούτων, ὅτι μὴ τὸ Ἀγαμέμνονος σκῆπτρον, ἄλλο γε οὐδὲν ἀξιόχρεών ἐστιν ἐς πίστιν. Λύκιοι μέν γε ἐν Πατάροις ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος χαλκοῦν ἐπιδεικνύουσι κρατῆρα, ἀνάθημα εἶναι φάμενοι Τηλέφου καὶ ἔργον Ἡφαίστου· καὶ σφᾶς, ὥς γε εἰκός, λέληθε Θεόδωρον καὶ Ῥοῖκον Σαμίους εἶναι τοὺς διαχέαντας χαλκὸν πρώτους.
Of all the works which poets sing, and human tradition has followed, as having been crafted by Hephaestus, there is none worthy of credit except the scepter of Agamemnon. The Lycians, indeed, at Patara, exhibit in the temple of Apollo a bronze bowl, claiming that it was dedicated by Telephus and is the handiwork of Hephaestus; but it has evidently escaped their notice that Theodorus and Rhoecus of Samos were actually the first who melted bronze.