CHAPTER 60

Another of the tripods has this legend in the hexameter measure:

I to far-shooting Phoebus was offered by Scaeus the boxer,
When he had won at the games - a wondrous beautiful offering.

This might be Scaeus, the son of Hippocoon; and the tripod, if dedicated by him, and not by another of the same name, would belong to the time of Oedipus, the son of Laius.