undertook to strip and ran naked at Olympia, at the fifteenth Olympiad, was







Acanthus the Lacedaemonian.'14







There is a rival convention told by Pausanias about Orsippos of Megara, "who







won a foot-race at Olympia running naked at a time when sportsmen used to wear







loincloths in the old style." There is a Hellenistic epitaph about Orsippos that







was inscribed on the sportsman'