Olympic Games

For he will say that Philammon the boxer was crowned at Olympia, not as having defeated Glaucus, that famous man of ancient days, but because he beat the antagonists of his own time;

Do you think, fellow citizens, that any man would ever have been willing to train for the pancratium or any other of the harder contests in the Olympic games, or any of the other games that confer a crown, if the crown were given, not to the best man, but to the man who had successfully intrigued for it?

And just as at the Olympic games the wreaths of victory are not bestowed upon the handsomest and strongest persons present, but on men who enter for the competitions—since it is among these that the winners are found,—so it is those who act rightly who carry off the prizes and good things of life.

For that man, an Olympic victor, was the first to bring garlands from the Alpheus to the Aeacidae;

Beside the sacred precinct of the son of Cronus, child, you and Polytimidas were deprived of two Olympic garlands by a sudden drawing of lots.

That is much more appropriate for me than for any of you who has won a race at the Olympic games with a pair of horses or a four-in-hand.

For the Greeks considered our state to be greater than they had ever done, even beyond its actual power, through the splendour of my display as its deputy to the Olympic games;