[43]. Pindar, Ol. i. (E. Myers’ translation).
[44]. Vide Bötticher, Olympia, ch. i.
[45]. For the history of Olympia vide Curtius, “Entwurf einer Geschichte von Olympia,” in Ol. Text. i. pp. 16-68.
[46]. For the cult of Pelops vide Paus. v. 13, 2; Schol. to Pindar, Ol. i. 146, 149.
[47]. The latest excavations show that this site had been inhabited in prehistoric days. Traces of six buildings have been discovered below the geometric stratum; they are characterized by a semicircular apsidal ending. Ath. Mitth. xxxiii. 185; Year’s Work in Classical Studies, 1908, p. 12.
[48]. Pindar, Ol. xi. 64.
[49]. Cp. Louis Dyer, “The Olympian Council House,” in Harvard Classical Studies, 1908, where a full account of these Peloponnesian leagues will be found.
[50]. Paus. v. 20, 1; Plut. Lycurgus 1, 1. The part taken by Cleosthenes is vouched for by Phlegon, Frag. Hist. Gr. p. 602, and in a scholion on Plato’s Republic, 465 D. Vide Dyer, l.c. pp. 40 ff.
[51]. Thuc. v. 49; Demosth. De fals. leg., ὑπόθ. p. 335.
[52]. Hell. iii. 2, 31; vii. 4, 28.