[219]. Ditt. Syll. 2nd Ed., 522, 523, 524, 672, 673, 674.
[220]. Krause, Olymp. p. 215. Diodorus and Ulpian assign the founding of these games to Archelaus, another account assigns it to Philip II.
[221]. Xen. Hell. vi. 4, 29.
[222]. Arr. Anab. ii. 15.
[223]. Ol. Ins. 276, 277. Another such courier was Deinosthenes of Sparta, who won the foot-race in Ol. 116, and set up beside his statue a pillar giving the distance from Olympia to Sparta as 630 stades, and from Sparta to the next pillar (at Amyclae) as 30 stades. Paus. vi. 16, 8; Ol. Ins. 171.
[224]. Alexandrian victories in 272, 256, 240, 228, 212 B.C. Vide Förster, op. cit.
[225]. Ol. Ins. 294.
[226]. Ol. Ins. 39.
[227]. This victory was commemorated by the founding of a new festival, the Soteria, which is mentioned in various athletic inscriptions of the period.
[228]. Fränckel, Antiq. Pergam. viii. 1, pp. 8, 10.