[289]. Schol. Pindar, Ol. v. 8, iii. 33.
[290]. Schol. vet. Pindar, Ol. v. 8 πεμπταμέροις ἁμίλλαις· ἐπεὶ ἐπὶ πέντα ἡμέρασ ῎θγετο αὐτὰ τὰ ἀγωνίσματα.
[291]. v. 9, 3.
[292]. Hellen. vii. 4.
[293]. Carl Robert in Hermes xxxv.; C. Gaspar in Dar.-Sagl. s.v. “Olympia.” It had been my intention to discuss Robert’s theory in the J.H.S., but I find that nearly all my objections to it have been anticipated by Frederic Mie in Philologus, lx. Mie’s own theory has in its turn been superseded by Weniger’s, which alone offers a satisfactory explanation both of Xenophon and of Pausanias.
[294]. Robert’s theory of the two sacrifices of thanksgiving offered after the pentathlon and horse-races on the 3rd and 5th days of the festival is pure fiction, and has been conclusively disproved by Mie, l.c.
[295]. Clio, 1904, p. 127; Krause, Olympia, p. 84.
[296]. Paus. vi. 15, 5.
[297]. Quaest. Symp. ii. 5.
[298]. Paus. vi. 13, 3. The same order is twice adopted by Philostratus in Gym. ch. 4 and 32.