[299]. If the final of the stade-race followed the dolichos, the heats would naturally precede it, so as to allow competitors a rest between the heats and the final.
[300]. Paus. vi. 6, 5; vi. 15, 4.
[301]. Plut. Quaest. Symp. ii. 5, 2; Paus. iii. 14, 3; Phil. Gym. 7; Artemidorus, Oneirocrit. i. 65.
[302]. Paus. vi. 24, 1.
[303]. Lucian, Timon, 50.
[304]. Robert and Mie hold that the crowns were presented after each event, Weniger that they were all presented on the 16th.
[305]. Schol. Pindar, Ol. v. 8 τῆς ἑκκαιδεκάτης ἐν ᾖ τὰ ἆθλα ἐδίδοτο. This is possibly a paraphrase of an earlier scholion on Ol. iii. 35 καὶ τῃ ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ γίνεται ἡ κρίσις.
[306]. Paus. v. 21, 14.
[307]. Africanus, 6, 67, R.
[308]. Imag. ii. 6. This passage is particularly important, as the picture represents the very moment after the contest is over.