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The Hermes carrying the ram under his arm, with a helmet on his head, and clad in tunic and cloak, is not one of the offerings of Phormis, but has been given to the god by the Arcadians of Pheneus. The inscription says that the artist was Onatas of
Of the bronze oxen one was dedicated by the Corcyraeans and the other by the Eretrians. Philesius of
Sitting under this ox a little boy was playing with his head bent towards the ground. Suddenly lifting his head he broke it against the bronze, and died a few days later from the wound. So the Eleans were purposing to remove the ox from out the Altis as being guilty of bloodshed. But the god at
Under the plane trees in the Altis, just about in the center of the enclosure, there is a bronze trophy, with an inscription upon the shield of the trophy, to the effect that the Eleans raised it as a sign that they had beaten the Lacedaemonians. It was in this battle that the warrior lost his life who was found lying in his armour when the roof of the Heraeum was being repaired in my time.
5.27.12The offering of the Mendeans in
To Zeus, king of the gods, as first-fruits was I placed here
Sipte seems to be a Thracian fortress and city. The Mendeans themselves are of Greek descent, coming from
By the Mendeans, who reduced Sipte by might of hand.
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