[239]. Octavianus, c. 45.
[240]. Ol. Ins. 59-141.
[241]. No satisfactory explanation of this rule has been offered. It certainly does not seem to have been always observed in earlier times. For example, Xenombrotus, Ol. Ins. 170, seems to have set up a portrait statue of himself for a single victory in the horse-race.
[242]. Louis Dyer, “The Olympian Council House,” in Harvard Studies, vol. xix. pp. 36 ff.
[243]. Ol. Ins. 56; cp. Mie, Quaestiones Agonisticae, p. 43.
[244]. Krause, Olympia, p. 203.
[245]. I.G. xiv. 739, πρωτελληνοδίκης ἐν Ἐφέσῳ καὶ ἐν Σμύρνη.
[246]. Curtius, Ol. Text, i. 52; Krause, Olympia, p. 207.
[247]. Suetonius, Nero, c. 23 ff.
[248]. Dion of Prusa, Or. xxxi.