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Original / primary: Perseus Eng2
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Shining daughter of Time and Night, the fifty [months have brought] you, sixteenth day of the month at Olympia by the will of
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to judge the speed of swift feet and preeminence in strength of limbs among the Greeks. The one to whom you give the most distinguished honor of victory is called glorious
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and much envied among men. You have adorned with garlands [the son] of Aristomenes, Lachon The rest is fragmentary.