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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. He won at the Nemean and Isthmian games combined twelve victories, three victories at Beside Sostratus is a statue of Leontiscus, a man wrestler, a native of The statue was made by Pythagoras of
The boy who is binding his head with a fillet must be mentioned in my account because of Pheidias and his great skill as a sculptor, but we do not know whose portrait the statue is that Pheidias made. Satyrus of
Chilon, an Achaean of Thus much is plain from the inscription. But the date of Lysippus, who made the statue, leads me to infer about the war in which Chilon fell, that plainly either he marched to Chaeroneia with the whole of the Achaeans note, or else his personal courage and daring led him alone of the Achaeans to fight against the Macedonians under Antipater at the battle of
Next to Chilon two statues have been set up. One is that of a man named Molpion, who, says the inscription, was crowned by the Eleans. The other statue bears no inscription, but tradition says that it represents Aristotle from Stageira in
In wrestling only I alone conquered twice the men at
Thrice at
Chilon of
Buried for my valour when I died in battle.
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