Sunday, April 17, 2022
Pentathlon
Simonides, Epigrams 28 Sider = Greek Anthology 16.3 (tr. W.R. Paton):
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Diophon, the son of Philo, was victor at the Isthmian and Pythian gamesSee D.L. Page, Further Greek Epigrams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 260-262, and Adolf Köhnken, "Epinician Epigram," in Peter Bing and Jon Steffen Bruss, edd., Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram down to Philipp (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 295-312 (at 300-301).
in jumping, fleetness of foot, throwing the quoit, throwing the javelin, and wrestling.
Ἴσθμια καὶ Πυθοῖ Διοφῶν ὁ Φίλωνος ἐνίκα
ἅλμα, ποδωκείην, δίσκον, ἄκοντα, πάλην.
