n her to him in marriage. So when
the Olympic games were being held and Cleisthenes was victor in them
with a four-horse chariot, he caused a proclamation to be made, that
whosoever of the Hellenes thought himself worthy to be the son-in-law of
Cleisthenes should come on the sixtieth day, or before that if he would,
to Sikyon; for Cleisthenes intended to conclude the marriage within a
year, reckoning from the sixtieth day. Then all those of the Hellenes
who had pride either in themselves or in their high descent, 112 came
as wooers, and for them Cleisthenes had a running-course and a
wrestling-place made and kept them expressly for their use..

127. From Italy came Smindyrides the son of Hippocrates of Sybaris, who
of all men on earth reached the highest point of luxury (now Sybaris at
this time was in the height of its prosperity), and Damasos of Siris,
the son of that Amyris who was called the Wise; these came from Italy:
from the Ionian gulf came Amphimnestos the son of Epistrophos of
Epidamnos, this man from the Ionian gulf: from Aitolia came Males, the
brother of that Titormos who surpassed all the Hellenes in strength and
who fled from the presence of men to the furthest extremities of the
Aitolian land: from Peloponnesus, Leokedes the son of Pheidon the despot
of the Argives, that Pheidon who established for the Peloponnesians
the measures which they use, and who went beyond all other Hellenes in
wanton insolence, since he removed from their place the presidents of
the games appointed by the Eleians and himself presided over the
games at Olympia,--his son, I say, and Amiantos the son of Lycurgos an
Arcadian from Trapezus, and Laphanes an Azanian from the city of Paios,
son of that Euphorion who (according to the story told in Arcadia)
received the Dioscuroi as guests in his house and from thenceforth was
wont to entertain all men who came, and Onomastos the son of Agaios
of Elis; these, I say, came from Peloponnesus itself: from Athens came
Megacles the son of that Alcmaion who went to Croesus, and besides him
Hippocleides the son of Tisander, one who surpassed the other Athenians
in wealth and in comeliness of form: from Eretria, which at that time
was flourishing, came Lysanias, he alone from Euboea: from Thessalia
came Diactorides of Crannon, one of the family of the Scopadai: and from
the Molossians, Alcon..

128. So many in number did the wooers prove to be: and when these had
come by the appointed day, Cle