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These are the most remarkable sights that meet a man who goes over the Altis according to the instructions I have given. But if you will go to the right from the Leonidaeum to the great altar, you will come across the following notable objects. There is Democrates of Tenedos, who won the men's wrestling-match, and Criannius of Elis, who won a victory in the race in armour. The statue of Democrates was made by Dionysicles of
The statues of Herodotus of Clazomenae and of Philinus, son of Hegepolis, of Cos, were dedicated by their respective cities. The Clazomenians dedicated a statue of Herodotus because he was the first Clazomenian to be proclaimed victor at
The statue of Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy Lagus, was dedicated by Aristolaus, a Macedonian. There is also dedicated a statue of a victorious boy boxer, Butas of
Enation won a victory in the boys' foot-race, and Alexibius in the pentathlum. The native place of Alexibius was
Near these are Eleans who beat the boys at boxing, Choerilus the work of Sthennis of
That he was the soothsayer of the clan of the Clytidae, Eperastus declares at the end of the inscription:
Of the stock of the sacred-tongued Clytidae I boast to be,
For Mantius was a son of Melampus, the son of Amythaon, and he had a son Oicles, while Clytius was a son of Alcmaeon, the son of Amphiaraus, the son of Oicles. Clytius was the son of Alcmaeon by the daughter of Phegeus, and he migrated to
Their soothsayer, the scion of the god-like Melampodidae.
Mingled with the less illustrious offerings we may see the statues of Alexinicus of
This Gorgias note was a son of Charmantides, and is said to have been the first to revive the study of rhetoric, which had been altogether neglected, in fact almost forgotten by mankind. They say that Gorgias won great renown for his eloquence at the Olympic assembly, and also when he accompanied Tisias on an embassy to
However, Gorgias surpassed his fame at
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There is also a bronze statue of Cratisthenes of
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