[372]. Plutarch, Aratus, 17.
[373]. Plutarch, Philopoemen, 11.
[374]. Livy xxvii. 30, xxxiv. 41.
[375]. Paus. v. 16, 4.
[376]. Frazer, Pausanias, iii. 91.
[377]. Pindar, N. v., vii.; Bacchylides, i. xii.
[378]. Phil. Gym. 7; Paus. vi. 16, 4.
[379]. The athletic character of the Nemea is emphasized in Bacchylides’ Twelfth Ode, in which the origin of the pankration is traced to the victory of Heracles over the Nemean lion.
[380]. Krause, op. cit. p. 147.
[381]. The following section is taken chiefly from A. Mommsen’s Feste der Stadt Athen.