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Now when they were all come, and the day appointed had arrived,
Clisthenes first of all inquired of each concerning his country and his
family; after which he kept them with him a year, and made trial of
their manly bearing, their temper, their accomplishments, and their
disposition, sometimes drawing them apart for converse, sometimes
bringing them all together. Such as were still youths he took with him
from time to time to the gymnasia; but the greatest trial of all was at
the banquettable. During the whole period of their stay he lived with
them as I have said; and, further, from first to last he entertained
them sumptuously. Somehow or other the suitors who came from Athens
pleased him the best of all; and of these Hippoclides, Tisander's
son, was specially in favour, partly on account of his manly bearing,
and partly also because his ancestors were of kin to the Corinthian Cypselids.
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