[452]. Ionian Antiquities of the Dilettanti, iii. Pl. xxi.

[453]. Ib. ii. Pl. lxxxiv. Durm, Baukunst der Griechen, gives in his “Register” numerous references to accounts by early travellers of stadia at Aezani, Aphrodisias, Ephesus, Laodicea, Messene, Perga, Pessinus.

[454]. Electra, 680 ff.

[455]. On earlier black-figured vases the finish is represented by tripods or vases set as prizes (Gerh. A. V. 257), or by the seats of the judges as on the Amphiaraus vase (Fig. [3]).

[456]. Krause, Gym. p. 348.

[457]. Bacchylides, ix. τετραέλικτον ἐπεὶ κάμψεν δρόμον; Eurip. Electra, 825; Pausanias, vi. 16, 4; Ditt. Syll. 2nd Ed., 676.

[458]. Leg. viii. 833, C, D.

[459]. Pausanias, v. 16, 2.

[460]. Ol. Inschr. 56.

[461]. Pausanias, vi. 14, 1.