[631]. For a fuller treatment of this point vide J.H.S. xxiii. p. 63, and Jüthner, Philostratus, p. 207. The passage quoted by me from Philostratus on p. 65 n. 47, γυμνάζεταί τι τῶν τριῶν, appears to be corrupt and cannot be used as evidence for speaking of τριαγμός as applied to the three events of the pentathlon which secured victory, or the three events peculiar to the pentathlon, and Jüthner seems to me correct in his criticism that this use of the word is “mehr als unsicher.”
[632]. In J.H.S. xxiii. p. 65 I was mistaken in rejecting this conclusion. I cannot, however, accept as proved either Holwerda’s or Heinrich’s application of it. Holwerda in particular, like many of the Germans, attaches an altogether undue importance to wrestling, which was certainly not the most important of the five events.
[633]. Schol. Pindar, Nem. v. 49.
[634]. Aelian, Var. Hist. ii. 4. Cp. J.H.S. xxv. p. 19, n. 27.
[635]. vi. 4, 2.
[636]. J.H.S. l.c. p. 15. Freeman, Schools of Hellas, p. 130.
[637]. Ox. Pap. iii. 466. For a full discussion of it vide Jüthner, Philostratus, p. 26. With the papyrus may be compared a curious passage in Lucian’s Asinus, c. 9, and an epigram in Anth. Pal. xii. 206. The latter, like the passage in Lucian, is probably erotic. Such a metaphorical use of wrestling terms is common. Cp. Aristoph. Pax 895, Av. 442, and the expressions ἀνακλινοπάλη, κλινοπάλη.
[638]. Ol. Ins. 225, 226, 54; Paus. vi. 1, 2.
[639]. Hermotim. 40.
[640]. Ol. viii. 68; Pyth. viii. 81.