Fragments of the Philosophical Poets

...and in turn it went around to Thales again; and he sent it to the Didymean Apollo, saying this, according to Callimachus [fr. 95, II 260 Schn.]:

The prose account is as follows: "Thales, son of Examyes, the Milesian, gives to Apollo Didymaeus this prize of excellence of the Greeks, having received it twice." The boy who carried the cup around for Bathycles was called Thyrion, as Eleusis says in his work On Achilles [FHG II 336, 3] and Alexon of Myndos in the ninth book of his Mythical Histories.

Eudoxus of Cnidus and Euanthides the Milesian [FHG III 2] say that a friend of Croesus received a golden cup from the king to give to the wisest of the Greeks; he gave it to Thales, and it went around to Chilon. Chilon inquired of the Pythian god who was wiser than himself, and the god named Myson, of whom we shall speak. (Those around Eudoxus put this man in place of Cleobulus, but Plato in place of Periander.) Concerning him, the Pythian god answered:

The one who asked was Anacharsis. Daimachus the Platonist [fr. 6, FHG II 442] and Clearchus [fr. 44c, FHG II 317] say the cup was sent by Croesus to Pittacus and thus went around.

Andron, in his Tripod [fr. 1, FHG II 347], says the Argives set up a tripod as a prize of virtue for the wisest of the Greeks; it was awarded to Aristodemus the Spartan, who ceded it to Chilon. Alcaeus [fr. 49 Bergk] also mentions Aristodemus thus:

Some say a ship laden with cargo was sent by Periander to Thrasybulus, the tyrant of the Milesians; when it was shipwrecked in the Coan sea, the tripod was later found by certain fishermen...