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From Italy there came Smindyrides, the son of Hippocrates, a
native of Sybaris - which city about that time was at the very height
of its prosperity. He was a man who in luxuriousness of living
exceeded all other persons. Likewise there came Damasus, the son of
Amyris, surnamed the Wise, a native of Siris. These two were the
only suitors from Italy. From the Ionian Gulf appeared
Amphimnestus, the son of Epistrophus, an Epidamnian; from
Aetolia, Males, the brother of that Titormus who excelled all the
Greeks in strength, and who wishing to avoid his fellow-men,
withdrew himself into the remotest parts of the Aetolian territory.
From the Peloponnese came several - Leocedes, son of that
Pheidon, king of the Argives, who established weights and measures
throughout the Peloponnese, and was the most insolent of all the
Grecians - the same who drove out the Elean directors of the Games,
and himself presided over the contests at Olympia - Leocedes, I
say, appeared, this Pheidon's son; and likewise Amiantus, son of
Lycurgus, an Arcadian of the city of Trapezus; Laphanes, an
Azenian of Paeus, whose father, Euphorion, as the story goes in
Arcadia, entertained the Dioscuri at his residence, and thenceforth
kept open house for all comers; and lastly, Onomastus, the son of
Agaeus, a native of Elis. These four came from the Peloponnese.
From Athens there arrived Megacles, the son of that Alcmaeon who
visited Croesus, and Tisander's son, Hippoclides, the wealthiest
and handsomest of the Athenians. There was likewise one Euboean,
Lysanias, who came from Eretria, then a flourishing city. From
Thessaly came Diactorides, a Cranonian, of the race of the
Scopadae; and Alcon arrived from the Molossians. This was the list
of the suitors.
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