[512]. Phil. Gym. 8, 24. I have already pointed out that Philostratus is somewhat credulous, and too much inclined to accept without investigation the tales poured into his ears by the authorities at Elis and elsewhere. It was the fashion in his time to exaggerate the Spartan severity of Greek athletics.
[513]. For Nemea vide Philostratus, l.c.; for Olympia, Paus. ii. 11, 8; for Athens Aristoph. Av. 291, and Scholiast.
[514]. Paus. v. 12, 8; vi. 10, 4.
[515]. Hauser, Jahrb., 1895, p. 199.
[516]. B.M. Vases, E. 22; Gerh. A. V. 258, 1.
[517]. Theb. vi. 587.
[518]. Av. 291.
[519]. J.H.S. l.c. pp. 284-287.
[520]. J.H.S. l.c. pp. 282-284. The argument which I drew from the use of the epithet ποικίλοι in the passage of Philostratus must be abandoned. Dr. Jüthner’s recent edition of the Gymnastik proves that there is no authority for this reading; he himself suggests πάλαιοι. The general conclusions drawn in my article are not really affected by the change.