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He was a man very worthy to be had in remembrance by all, on several
accounts. For not only did he thus distinguish himself beyond others
in the cause of his country's freedom; but likewise, by the honours
which he gained at the Olympic Games, where he carried off the prize
in the horse-race, and was second in the four-horse chariot-race,
and by his victory at an earlier period in the Pythian Games, he
showed himself in the eyes of all the Greeks a man most unsparing in
his expenditure. He was remarkable too for his conduct in respect of
his daughters, three in number; for when they came to be of
marriageable age, he gave to each of them a most ample dowry, and
placed it at their own disposal, allowing them to choose their husbands
from among all the citizens of Athens, and giving each in marriage to
the man of her own choice.
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