It was considered a very great thing for Philippides to run one thousand one hundred and sixty stadia, the distance between Athens and Laced?mon, in two days, until Amystis, the Laced?monian courier, and Philonides, the courier of Alexander the Great, ran from Sicyon to Elis in one day, a distance of thirteen hundred and five stadia.[70] In our own times, too, we are fully aware that there are men in the Circus, who are able to keep on running for a distance of one hundred and sixty mil............