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Chilon, an Achaean of
In wrestling only I alone conquered twice the men at
Thrice at
Chilon of
Buried for my valour when I died in battle.
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
a city at the foot of Ida, was the first of the Aeolians in this district to win at
I have spoken at greater length on this matter in my account of
The statue of Cyniscus, the boy boxer from
ch. 5
6.5.1
The statue on the high pedestal is the work of Lysippus, and it represents the tallest of all men except those called heroes and any other mortal race that may have existed before the heroes. But this man, Pulydamas the son of Nicias, is the tallest of our own era. Scotussa, the native city of Pulydamas, has now no inhabitants, for Alexander the tyrant of Pherae seized it in time of truce. It happened that an assembly of the citizens was being held, and those who were assembled in the theater the tyrant surrounded with targeteers and archers, and shot them all down; all the other grown men he massacred, selling the women and children as slaves in order to pay his mercenaries.
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