He also coined money, and stamped it with the image of an ox,
either in memory of the Marathonian bull, or of Taurus, whom he
vanquished, or else to put his people in mind to follow husbandry;
and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the
Greeks, as a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this
he joined Megara to Attica, and erected that famous pillar on the
isthmus, which bears an inscription of two lines, showing the
bounds of the two countries that meet there. On the east side the
inscription is,-"Peloponnesus there, Ionia here," And on the west
side,-"Peloponnesus here, Ionia there."

He also instituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being
ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero's appointment,
celebrated the Olympian games to the honor of Jupiter, so, by his
institution, they should celebrate the Isthmian to the honor of
Neptune. At the same time he made an agreement with the
Corinthians, that they should allow those that came from Athens to
the celebration of the Isthmian games as much space of honor
before the rest to behold the spectacle in as the sail of the ship
that brought them thither, stretched to its full extent, could
cover; so Hellenicus and Andro of Halicarnassus have established.

Concerning his voyage into the Euxine Sea, Philochorus and some
others write that he made it with Hercules, offering him his
service in the war against the Amazons, and had Antiope given him
for the reward of his valor; but the greater number, of whom are
Pherecides, Hellanicus, and Herodorus, with a navy under his own
command, and took the Amazon prisoner,--the more probable story,
for we do not read that any other, of all those that accompanied