Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

by E. Norman Gardiner

[199]. Hence the term “Mercatus Olympiacus,” Vell. Paterc. i. 8; Cicero, Tuscul. v. 3; Krause, Olympia, p. 190, n. 2.

[200]. Lucian, Herodotus.

[201]. Paus. vi. 3, 14.

[202]. Paus. vi. 18, 2.

[203]. Polyb. iv. 73.

[204]. Thuc. v. 31 and 49.

[205]. From Pausanias, v. 4, 8, and 27, 11; vi. 2, 8, we gather that the Eleans, in the course of this war, obtained a decided success in a fight which took place at Olympia, and erected a trophy for the same in the Altis. Was it really this success which prevented the Spartans from depriving them of the presidency of the games, or have we here the Elean version of the war?

[206]. Xenophon, Hell. iii. 2, 31.

[207]. Förster, Ol. Sieger.

[208]. Xenophon, Hell. iv. 5. 1, 2.