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The date is adduced by Moretti as follows: other athletes celebrated by Callimachus were also active in the same period; Lokri flourished around this time; two other Olympic victories from Lokri also had their victories around the same period. Hence, late 6th/early 5th centuries BC, Moretti opts for the 73rd Olympiad (= 488 BC). Later he retracts this and argues for 464: the heroic honors attributed to Euthykles were exemplified over the certainly more important and significant ones attributed to his fellow citizen Euthymos (Olympionikai, nos. 191, 214, 227), who was victorious in Olympia between 480 and 472. But if Euthykles is later, even if only slightly, than Euthymos, and given that the victors in the pentatle in 476, 472, 468 are already known, the first free date for Euthykles would be 464.
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