[150]. B.C.H., 1899, p. 611. I have accepted the rendering of the inscription given by A. D. Keramopoullos in Ἐφ. Ἀρχ., 1906, p. 167. Instead of the name Εὐδρόμου, an utterly unknown hero, of whose shrine not a vestige has been found, he reads δρόμου. He repeats a misstatement made in Dar.-Sagl., Paully-Wissowa, and other dictionaries to the effect that athletes were not allowed to drink any wine. The only authority for the statement is a single passage from Galen, de Salub. vict. rat., in which he says that “after exercise athletes do not drink wine but water first, having learnt this from experience!” An egregious example of the absurdities which crowd the pages of our dictionaries!
[151]. Paus. vi. 7, 3; Diogen. Laert. viii. 13; Pliny, Hist. Nat. xxiii. 7.
[152]. Xen. Mem. i. 2, 4; Aristoph. Pax, 33, 34; Aristot. Eth. Nic. ii. 6, 7. Eating like a wrestler was proverbial.
[153]. Pol. v. 1339 a. Krause (Gym. p. 645, n. 3), and other writers following him, discredit this statement, not realizing that Aristotle is speaking of professional athletics. Of the eight examples quoted by Krause of athletes who had won victories both as boys and as men, five belong to the sixth or early fifth century, one is later than Aristotle, one is contemporary with him, the date of the eighth is doubtful.
[154]. Corn. Nepos, Epam. 2.
[155]. Rep. iii. 404 A; cp. Arist. Pol. 1335 b.
[156]. Plutarch, Vit. Alexander and Philopoemon.
[157]. Galen, Προτρεπτ. λόγ. ii. ἡ δὲ τῶν ἀθλητῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρον εὐεξία σφαλερά τε καὶ εὐμετάπτωτος. Krause, Gym. p. 47, n. 1.
[158]. Leg. 794 ff.
[159]. Leg. 833 ff.