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Callippides
Callippides (Καλλιππίδης) or Callippos (Κάλλιππος) was apparently an ancient Greek runner, who gave his name to a proverb for those making great efforts but no progress.
==Instances==
In 45 B.C., Cicero complains in a letter to Atticus that Varro had promised to dedicate a work to him but "Two years have gone by while that Callippides has been running all the time without advancing one cubit."〔Cic. ''Att.'' 13, 12, 3 "biennium praeteriit cum ille Καλλιππίδης adsiduo cursu cubitum nullum processerit".〕 The Roman Emperor Tiberius was said to have made preparations almost yearly for a visit to the provinces and the armies stationed there, which he always cancelled at the last minute, with the result that "he was jokingly referred to as Callippides, who was known in the Greek proverb to run and make not a cubit of progress".〔Suetonius ''Tib.'' 38 "ut … per iocum Callippides vocaretur, quem cursitare ac ne cubiti quidem mensuram progredi proverbio Graeco notatum est".〕 The proverb is found with this definition in a Greek proverb collection, but with the name Callippos.〔''Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum'' II 757 (n. 87) Κάλλιππος τρέχει ("Callippus runs").〕
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