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Similar in renown to Chionis was Hermogenes of
Polites then in the second ... and four, as they are grouped together by lot, and they do not start them all together for the race. The victors in each heat run again for the prize. So he who is crowned in the foot-race will be victorious twice. However, the most famous runner was Leonidas of
Not far from the slab of Chionis at
By the side of the tyrant is a statue of Diallus the son of Pollis, a Smyrnean by descent, and this Diallus declares that he was the first Ionian to receive at
Bycelus, the first Sicyonian to win the boys' boxing-match, had his statue made by Canachus of
The mare of the Corinthian Pheidolas was called, the Corinthians relate, Aura (breeze), and at the beginning of the race she chanced to throw her rider. But nevertheless she went on running properly, turned round the post, and, when she heard the trumpet, quickened her pace, reached the umpires first, realized that she had won and stopped running. The Eleans proclaimed Pheidolas the winner and allowed him to dedicate a statue of this mare.
6.13.10The sons also of Pheidolas were winners in the horse-race, and the horse is represented on a slab with this inscription :—
The swift Lycus by one victory at the Isthmus and two here
But the inscription is at variance with the Elean records of Olympic victors. These records give a victory to the sons of Pheidolas at the sixty-eighth Festival but at no other. You may take my statements as accurate.
Crowned the house of the sons of Pheidolas.
There are statues to Agathinus, son of Thrasybulus, and to Telemachus, both men of
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