Description of Greece

​They say that he died by wild beasts; for he came upon a drying tree in the territory of Croton, which was kept split by wedges inserted in it; Milon out of pride put his hands into the tree, and the wedges slipped out, and Milon, being held fast by the tree, became a prey to wolves. For this wild beast is particularly numerous and abundant in the territory of Croton.

​Such was the end that overtook Milon. As for Pyrrhus, the son of Aeacides, who ruled over the Thesprotian mainland and achieved many memorable deeds, which I have declared in my account concerning the Athenians, Thrasybulus the Elean dedicated him in the Altis. Beside Pyrrhus is a small man with flutes, carved in relief on a stele. This man achieved Pythian victories, being the second to do so after Sacadas of Argos;

​for Sacadas won the contest established by the Amphictyons when it was not yet for a crown, and twice after that when it was for a crown; and Pythocritus of Sicyon won the six Pythiads next following these, being the only flute-player to do so; and it is clear that he also played the flute six times at the Olympic games for the pentathlon. To Pythocritus, in return for these, was given the stele at Olympia, and on it is the inscription: “This is the monument of the flute-player Pythocritus, son of Callinicus.” And the common league of the Aetolians also dedicated Cylon, who ​freed the Eleans from the tyranny of Aristotimus. As for Gorgus of Messene, son of Eucletus, who won a victory in the pentathlon, and Damaretus, also a Messenian, who won the boys’ boxing, Theron of Boeotia made the statue of the former, and Silanion the Athenian made that of Damaretus. Anauchidas, son of Philys, an Elean, won the crown for wrestling in the boys’ class, and later in the men’s; we do not know who made his statue, but Anochus of Tarentum, son of Adamatas, who won victories in the stade and the double-stade, is the work of Ageladas of Argos.

​The inscription says that the boy sitting on the horse and the man standing beside the horse are Xenombrotus of Kos, offshoot of Merops, who was proclaimed victor in the horse-race, and Xenodicus, who was declared victor in the boys’ boxing; Pantias made the latter of them, and Philotimus of Aegina made Xenombrotus. Lysippus made the statue of Pythes, son of Andromachus, a man of Abdera by birth, and the soldiers dedicated two statues of him; Pythes seems to have been a commander of mercenaries or otherwise excellent in war.

​There are also placed statues of those who won victories in the foot-race in the boys’ class: Meneptolemus from Apollonia on the Ionian Gulf, and Philon of Corcyra; and next to them is Hieronymus of Andros, who overcame in wrestling the Elean Tisamenus when the latter was competing in the pentathlon at Olympia—this Tisamenus who afterwards acted as seer for the Greeks at Plataea against Mardonius and the Medes. This Hieronymus, then, is dedicated, and beside him is a boy wrestler, also of Andros, Procles the son of Lycastidas; and as for the sculptors who made their statues, the name of the one is Stomios, and of the other who made Procles, Somis. Aeschines the Elean had two victories in the pentathlon, and he has statues equal in number to his victories.