undertook to strip and ran naked at Olympia, at the fifteenth Olympiad, was
Acanthus the Lacedaemonian.'14
There's a rival convention told by Pausanias about Orsippos of Megara, "who
won a foot race at Olympia running naked at a time when athletes used to wear
loincloths in the old style." There's a Hellenistic epitaph about Orsippos that
was inscribed on the athlete's gra











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