Agaclytus wrote On Olympia. Photius preserves his account of the hammered-gold colossus in the old Heraion at Olympia, a dedication of Cypselus of Corinth: Cypselus vowed, if he became tyrant, to tithe Corinthian property and from that tenth to make the statue. Didymus and Theophrastus instead give the colossus to Periander, as a check on Corinthian luxury. An epigram on the statue curses the Cypselid line.
Müller printed the fragment in Fragments of the Greek Historians 4, p. 288. Agaclytus is dated to about the first century BCE.
The page is that Olympic dedication-notice: the Heraion, Cypselus’s tithe, and the curse-epigram.
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On the Olympic Dedications
Ἀπόσπασμα
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