[189]. Paus. vi. 17, 7; Ol. Ins. 293.
[190]. Paus. vi. 3, 11; Anth. Pal. xiii. 5; Hyde, Olymp. Stat. p. 33.
[191]. Lysias, Olympiakos; Dionys. Hal. Jud. de Lysia, p. 519; Diodor. xiv. 109. A similar tale is narrated by Aelian of Themistocles, who is said to have urged the Greeks in 476 not to allow Hieron of Syracuse to compete, on the ground that he had not shared in the dangers of Greece. Ael. V.H. 9. 5.
[192]. Isocrates, Panegyrikos.
[193]. Helmet of Argives (Ol. Ins. 250), spears of Sicyonians, Methonii, Tarentines (Ins. 245, 247, 254), of Argives and Athenians for Tanagra (Paus. v. 10, 4).
[194]. Paus. v. 24; Ol. Ins. 252.
[195]. Such must certainly have been the statue of Victory by Calamis set up by the Mantineans. Paus. v. 26, 6.
[196]. Paus. v. 26, 1.
[197]. Paus. v. 27, 11; 24, 4.
[198]. They were merely competitions in strength of lung. Herodorus of Megara, a famous trumpeter who won ten times at Olympia, was said to be able to blow two trumpets at once with such force that no one could stand in his neighbourhood. Athen. 10, 7, p. 415.