Two by Simonides, from Book 16

'Book 16' of the Anthology is not like the other books of the Anthology. It is a comparatively recent compilation, derived mechanically by scholars going through the inferior thirteenth-century redaction of the Anthology and finding all the poems there that (for whatever reason) are not included in the earlier and better Palatine manuscript.

Here is a pair of Simonidean epigrams on victorious athletes, with the usual caveat that not everything headed 'SIMONIDES' is necessarily by Simonides. The second is on Milo of Croton, the most famous athlete of classical antiquity.

16.23

Who are you, of what father and what land?
In what event were you victorious?
Casmylus I, son of Euagoras,
Of Rhodes, in boxing, at the Pythians.

16.24

Milo’s this statue, handsome as is he,
Who outside Pisa seven times was crowned,
And never once was wrestled to his knees.