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(1) When many momentous affairs were driving the Athenians to fill out their complement of triremes and attend to their naval forces, a decree was passed that whichever trierarch could produce a fully outfitted ship first would receive a crown, and that any trierarch who failed to bring his ship to anchor at the pier before “old and new day” (which is the last day of the month) would be imprisoned. (The pier was a structure in the harbor which was put there so that sailors could drop anchor and conduct their business.) (2) So Apollodorus, son of Pasion, who was the first to bring his ship to anchor, received the crown. But when a second contest is proposed to crown whoever did the best job of equipping his trireme, Apollodorus responds by laying claim to that prize, as well.

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