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The Histories–Book Six V 113
From Italy there came Smindyrides, the son of
Hippocrates, a native of Sybaris- which city about
that time was at the very height of its prosperity.
He was a man who in luxuriousness of living
exceeded all other persons. Likewise there came
Damasus, the son of Amyris, surnamed the Wise,
a native of Siris. These two were the only suitors
from Italy. From the Ionian Gulf appeared
Amphimnestus, the son of Epistrophus, an
Epidamnian; from Aetolia, Males, the brother of
that Titormus who excelled all the Greeks in
strength, and who wishing to avoid his fellowmen,
withdrew himself into the remotest parts of
the Aetolian territory. From the Peloponnese
came several- Leocedes, son of that Pheidon, king
of the Argives, who established weights and measures
throughout the Peloponnese, and was the
most insolent of all the Grecians- the same who
drove out the Elean directors of the Games, and
himself presided over the contests at Olympia-
Leocedes, I say, appeared, this Pheidon’s son; and
likewise Amiantus, son of Lycurgus, an Arcadian
of the city of Trapezus; Laphanes, an Azenian of