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About the same time Democritus1 the philosopher died at the age of ninety. And Lasthenes the Theban, who was the victor in the Olympic Games of this year, won a race, we are told, against a race horse, the course being from Coroneia to the city of the Thebans.2

1 The famous developer of the "atomic" theory.

2 A distance of about thirty miles.

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