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From Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy came Smindyrides of +Sybaris [16.4833,39.75] (Perseus) Sybaris, son of Hippocrates, the most luxurious liver of his day (and +Sybaris [16.4833,39.75] (Perseus) Sybaris was then at the height of its prosperity), and Damasus of +Siris [15.6333,40.0667] (Perseus) Siris, son of that Amyris who was called the Wise.
From Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy came Smindyrides of +Sybaris [16.4833,39.75] (Perseus) Sybaris, son of Hippocrates, the most luxurious liver of his day (and +Sybaris [16.4833,39.75] (Perseus) Sybaris was then at the height of its prosperity), and Damasus of +Siris [15.6333,40.0667] (Perseus) Siris, son of that Amyris who was called the Wise.
[2] These came from
Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy; from the
Ionian Gulf,
Amphimnestus son of
Epistrophus, an
Epidamnian; he was from the
Ionian Gulf. From
+Aetolia (region (general)), Aitolia and Akarnania, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Aetolia came Males, the brother of that
Titormus who surpassed all the
Greeks in strength, and fled from the sight of men to the farthest parts of the
Aetolian land.
[3] From the
+Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese came
Leocedes, son of
Phidon the tyrant of
Argos [22.7333,37.6417] (Perseus) Argos, that
Phidon who made weights and measures for the
Peloponnesians
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and acted more arrogantly than any other
Greek; he drove out the
Elean contest-directors and held the contests at
Olympia [21.6333,37.65] (Perseus)Olympia himself. This man's son now came, and
Amiantus, an
Arcadian from
+Trapezus [39.7167,41] (Perseus) Trapezus, son of
Lycurgus; and an
Azenian from the town of
Paeus,
Laphanes, son of that
Euphorion who, as the
Arcadian tale relates, gave lodging to the
Dioscuri, and ever since kept open house for all men; and
Onomastus from
+Elis [21.4,37.8833] (Perseus) Elis, son of
Agaeus.
[4] These came from the
+Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese itself; from
Athens Megacles, son of that
Alcmeon who visited
Croesus, and also
Hippocleides son of
Tisandrus, who surpassed the
Athenians in wealth and looks. From
+Eretria [23.8083,38.3917] (Perseus) Eretria, which at that time was prosperous, came
Lysanias; he was the only man from
+Euboea [23.833,38.566] (island), Nomos Evvoias, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Euboea. From
+Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly came a
Scopad,
Diactorides of
Crannon; and from the
Molossians,
Alcon.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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