[83]. Hdt. vi. 103.
[84]. Hdt. ii. 7.
[85]. At a later time a drachma was a day’s pay for a sailor, hoplite, or artisan, and in Pericles’ time a juryman received only two obols. In Solon’s time, owing to the scarcity of money, the value of a drachma must have been considerably higher.
[86]. On the Panathenaea vide A. Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen.
[87]. The palm branch as a symbol of victory does not occur till the close of the fifth century. Mr. F. B. Tarbell traces its origin to Delos, and derives its popularity from the restoration of the Delian festival by Athens in 426 B.C. “The Palm of Victory” in Classical Philology, vol. iii. pp. 264 ff.
[88]. Paus. vi. 13, 1. Hieron is apparently a mistake for Gelon.
[89]. Krause, Olympia, pp. 195-201.
[90]. Hdt. v. 47.
[91]. Pliny, H. N. vii. 47. Strabo, vi. 255.
[92]. Paus. vi. 11, 9; Lucian, Deor. Concilium, 12.