[269]. Ol. Ins. 54, 436. Both inscriptions belong to the close of the first century A.D. In two earlier inscriptions of the time of Augustus (53, 366) the distinction between οἱ Ἕλληνες and ἡ οἰκουμένη is still maintained.
[270]. The Alexandrine Olympia were probably founded in A.D. 176 by Marcus Aurelius, I.G. xiv. 1102.
[271]. I.G. xiv. 746.
[272]. πρῶτος τῶν ἀπ’ αἰῶνος πυκτῶν, I.G. iii. 128. Cp. πρωτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκουμένης, C.I.G. 2723.
[273]. N.H. vii. 20; cp. ii. 73.
[274]. Ol. Ins. 356.
[275]. The matter of this section is taken from the reports of the B.S.A., vols. xii., xiii.
[276]. B.S.A. xii. 314.
[277]. B.S.A. xii. 445 ff. Another Spartan festival mentioned in inscriptions is the Euryclea founded by Eurycles, a rich and powerful friend of Herod the Great, C.I.G. 1378, 1389.
[278]. B.S.A. x. 63, xii. 212.