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It is said that when Hysmon was still a boy he was attacked by a flux in his muscles, and it was in order that by hard exercise he might be a healthy man free from disease that he practised the pentathlum. So his training was also to make him win famous victories in the games. His statue is the work of Cleon, and he holds jumping-weights of old pattern.
6.3.11After Hysmon comes the statue of a boy wrestler from
Dicon, the son of Callibrotus, won five footraces at
Close to Dicon is a statue of Xenophon, the son of Menephylus, a pancratiast of Aegium in
A statue of Lysander, son of Aristocritus, a Spartan, was dedicated in
In the much-seen precinct of Zeus, ruler on high,
So this inscription informs us who dedicated the statue; the next is in praise of Lysander himself:
I stand, dedicated at public expense by the Samians.
Deathless glory by thy achievements, for fatherland and for Aristocritus,
Lysander, hast thou won, and art famed for valour.
So plainly “the Samians and the rest of the Ionians,” as the Ionians themselves phrase it, painted both the walls. For when Alcibiades had a strong fleet of Athenian triremes along the coast of
But when fortune changed again, and
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Next to the statue of Lysander is an Ephesian boxer who beat the other boys, his competitors—his name was Athenaeus,—and also a man of Sicyon who was a pancratiast, Sostratus surnamed Acrochersites. For he used to grip his antagonist by the fingers note and bend them, and would not let go until he saw that his opponent had given in.
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