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For with how many victories hath this horse-breeding city of Proitos flourished! even in the Corinthian corner and from the men of Kleonai four times, and from Sikyon they came laden with silver, even goblets for wine, and out of Pellene clad in soft woof of wool . But to tell over the multitude of their prizes of bronze is a thing impossible to count them longer leisure were needed which Kleitor and Tegea and the Achaians' high-set cities and the Lykaion set for a prize by the race-course of Zeus for the conquerors by strength of hands or feet.
The ancient citadel of Agamemnon stands in the plain of Argos, on an isolated hill 912 feet in height. 'Some remains of the circuit wall, says Pausanias, 'are still to be seen, and the gate which has lions over it. These were built, they say, by the Cyclopes, who made the wall at Tiryns for Proitos.
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