The Histories · 7.227
This and other sayings of this kind they report that Dienekes the Lacedemonian left as memorials of himself; and after him the bravest they say of the Lacedemonians were two brothers Alpheos and Maron, sons of Orsiphantos. Of the Thespians the man who gained most honour was named Dithyrambos son of Harmatides.Read in context ›
Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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