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[ A council of five presided over the business of the oracle, composed of families who traced their descent from Deucalion.
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[ Great grandson to Antiochus, son of Hercules.—Pausanias, l. 2, c. 4.
108 ([return])
[ But at Argos, at least, the name, though not the substance, of the kingly government was extant as late as the Persian war.
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[ Those who meant to take part in the athletic exercises were required to attend at Olympia thirty days previous to the games, for preparation and practice.
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[ It would appear by some Etruscan vases found at Veii, that the Etruscans practised all the Greek games—leaping, running, cudgel-playing, etc., and were not restricted, as Niebuhr supposes, to boxing and chariot-races.