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Delphi (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 27
Phocis (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 27
Argos (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 27
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Opposite the offerings I have enumerated are others in a row; they face towards the south, and are very near to that part of the precinct which is sacred to Pelops. Among them are those dedicated by the Maenalian Phormis. He crossed to Sicily from Maenalus to serve Gelon the son of Deinomenes. Distinguishing himself in the campaigns of Gelon and afterwards of his brother Hieron, he reached such a pitch of prosperity that he dedicated not only these offerings at Olympia, but also others dedicated to Apollo at Delphi.
The offerings at Olympia are two horses and two charioteers, a charioteer standing by the side of each of the horses. The first horse and man are by Dionysius of Argos, the second are the work of Simon of Aegina.488-460 B.C. On the side of the first of the horses is an inscription, the first part of which is not metrical. It runs thus:—Phormis dedicated me,An Arcadian of Maenalus, now of Syracuse.
This is the horse in which is, say the Eleans, the hippomanes (what maddens h
Elis (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 27
Aenus (search for this): book 5, chapter 27
Eretria (Greece) (search for this): book 5, chapter 27
Syracuse (Italy) (search for this): book 5, chapter 27