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Afterwards, in the generation which followed, Clisthenes, king of
Sicyon, raised the family to still greater eminence among the Greeks
than even that to which it had attained before. For this Clisthenes,
who was the son of Aristonymus, the grandson of Myron, and the
great-grandson of Andreas, had a daughter, called Agarista, whom
he wished to marry to the best husband that he could find in the whole
of Greece. At the Olympic Games, therefore, having gained the
prize in the chariot race, he caused public proclamation to be made to
the following effect: "Whoever among the Greeks deems himself worthy
to become the son-in-law of Clisthenes, let him come, sixty days
hence, or, if he will, sooner, to Sicyon; for within a year's
time, counting from the end of the sixty days, Clisthenes will decide
on the man to whom he shall contract his daughter." So all the
Greeks who were proud of their own merit or of their country flocked to
Sicyon as suitors; and Clisthenes had a foot-course and a
wrestling-ground made ready, to try their powers.
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