Evagoras
3. Of Lacedaemon, remarkable for having gained three victories in the chariot-race at the Olympic games with the same horses, in consequence of which he erected the statue of a quadriga at Olympia, and honoured his horses with a magnificent funeral. (Hdt. 6.103; Aelian, Ael. NA 12.40; Paus. 6.10.8.)
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