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AKRIES (Ancient city) ELOS
About eighty stades beyond Trinasus I came to the ruins of Helos, and some thirty stades farther is Acriae, a city on the coast.
The people of Acriae once produced an Olympian victor, Nicocles, who at two Olympian festivals carried off five prizes for running. There has been raised to him a monument between the gymnasium and the wall by the harbor.
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