[229]. Ol. Ins. 308.
[230]. Ol. Ins. 306, 307.
[231]. Little weight can be attached to such a statement. The list may well have been transferred to the gymnasium when it was built. A similar list was set up by the father of Paraballon whose victory in the diaulos is placed by Hyde between Ol. 91-101, when the gymnasium certainly did not exist.
[232]. B.C.H., 1899, pp. 565 ff. The inscription is dated by the archonship of Dion, 258 B.C.
[233]. Of the statues seen by Pausanias none can be much later than 150 B.C. (vide Hyde, Olymp. Statues). The Olympic inscriptions show that the custom was revived at the close of the first century B.C. Ins. 213, 219, 224, 225, etc.
[234]. The only statue from Sicily is that of Hieron II. of Syracuse.
[235]. Tacitus, Annals, xiv. 20. For the attitude of the Romans towards athletics vide Wilkins, Roman Education, pp. 31-33.
[236]. Ol. Ins. 191-210.
[237]. Africanus states that the discontinuance of these events lasted from Ol. 178 to Ol. 194, when the chariot-race, after being “long prohibited,” was won by Germanicus. The inaccuracy of this statement is proved by the discovery of an earlier inscription recording the victory of Tiberius Claudius Nero. Ol. Ins. 220-221.
[238]. Julius Caesar, c. 39.