[308] Plutarch, Sylla, 20.
[309] Pausanias, Laconia, xi. We must further mention the famous temple of bronze of Minerva, the two gymnasia, and the Platanistum, a spacious place where the competitions of the youths took place, (Pausanias, Laconia, xiv.)
[310] Stephanus of Byzantium, under the word Λακεδαἱμων, p. 413.
[311] Pausanias, Laconia, xxi.
[312] Titus Livius, XXXIV. 29.
[313] Pausanias, Arcadia, xlv.
[314] Pausanias, Arcadia, xli. Thirty-six columns out of thirty-eight are still standing.
[315] Pliny, Natural History, XIX. i. 4.
[316] Pausanias, Elis, II. 23 and 24.
[317] Pausanias, Elis, I. ii.