1 [This Callias is worthy of all men's remembrance for many reasons: first, because he so excellently freed his country, as I have said; second, for what he did at Olympia [21.6333,37.65] (Perseus)Olympia, where he won a horserace, and was second in a four-horse chariot, after already winning a Pythian prize, and was the cynosure of all Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas for the lavishness of his spending;
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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