Pythocles of

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was an

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athlete listed by

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as a victor in the stadion race of the 136th

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(236 BC). In his later career Pythocles appears to have served as a representative of the

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. The evidence comes from an inscription in

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where he is mentioned in a honorific list together with 23 other ''nomographoi''. On that list his father's name is given as ''Pythodoros''. IG IV2 1.73.

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