For this reason Deinolochus was trained to compete in the games and outran the boys. The mother of Deinolochus had a dream, in which she thought that the son she clasped in her bosom had a crown on his head. The statue of Troilus was made by Lysippus. After this the Eleans passed a law that in future no umpire was to compete in the chariot-races. The date of his victories was the hundred and second Festival.
Troilus, at the time that he was umpire, succeeded in winning victories in the chariot-races, one for a chariot drawn by a full-grown pair and another for a chariot drawn by foals. These also were both Eleans by birth, though their victories were not the same. Hard by Cleogenes are set up Deinolochus, son of Pyrrhus, and Troilus, son of Alcinous.
The inscription on Cleogenes the son of Silenus declares that he was a native, and that he won a prize with a riding-horse from his own private stable. The statues of the athletes mentioned above were made by Alypus of Sicyon, pupil of Naucydes of Argos. Next comes Archedamus, son of Xenius, another Elean by birth, who like Symmachus overthrew wrestlers in the contest for boys. Beside him is Neolaidas, son of Proxenus, from Pheneus in Arcadia, who won a victory in the boys' boxing-match. On the right of the temple of Hera is the statue of a wrestler, Symmachus the son of Aeschylus. 1 Those only will be mentioned who themselves gained some distinction, or whose statues happened to be better made than others. I shall not even record all those whose statues have been set up, as I know how many have before now won the crown of wild olive not by strength but by the chance of the lot. These I am forced to omit by the nature of my work, which is not a list of athletes who have won Olympic victories, but an account of statues and of votive offerings generally. Not all the Olympic victors have had their statues erected some, in fact, who have distinguished themselves, either at the games or by other exploits, have had no statue.
After my description of the votive offerings I must now go on to mention the statues of racehorses and those of men, whether athletes or ordinary folk.
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