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After the statue of the man who the Eleans say had not his name recorded with the others because he was proclaimed winner of the trotting-race, stand Xenocles of Maenalus, who overthrew the boys at wrestling, and Alcetus, son of Alcinous, victor in the boys' boxing-match, who also was an Arcadian from Cleitor. Cleon made the statue of Alcetus; that of Xenocles is by Polycleitus.
6.9.3Aristeus of
The statue of Philles of Elis, who won the boys' wrestling-match, was made by the Spartan Cratinus.
As regards the chariot of Gelon, I did not come to the same opinion about it as my predecessors, who hold that the chariot is an offering of the Gelon who became tyrant in
But the Gelon who was tyrant of
At the Festival previous to this it is said that Cleomedes of Astypalaea killed Iccus of
This fell upon the children, and Cleomedes, pelted with stones by the citizens, took refuge in the sanctuary of Athena. He entered a chest standing in the sanctuary and drew down the lid. The Astypalaeans toiled in vain in their attempts to open the chest. At last, however, they broke open the boards of the chest, but found no Cleomedes, either alive or dead. So they sent envoys to
The response given by the Pythian priestess was, they say, as follows:—
Last of heroes is Cleomedes of Astypalaea;
So from this time have the Astypalaeans paid honors to Cleomedes as to a hero.
Honor him with sacrifices as being no longer a mortal.
By the side of the chariot of Gelon is dedicated a statue of Philon, the work of the Aeginetan Glaucias. About this Philon Simonides the son of Leoprepes composed a very neat elegiac couplet:
My fatherland is
There is also a statue of Agametor of Mantineia, who beat the boys at boxing.
The son of Glaucus, and I won two Olympic victories for boxing.
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Next to those that I have enumerated stands Glaucus of Carystus. Legend has it that he was by birth from Demylus happened to be a spectator of his son's performance, and thereupon brought him to
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