[333] Xen. Mem. iii. 12. 1.

[334] Plato, Phaidr. 239 c.

[335] Hesiod, Works and Days, 289.

[336] Solon reduced this endowment to 500 drachmai for an Olympian victor, 100 for an Isthmian (Plut. Solon, 23).

[337] Plut. Quaest. Rom. 40.

[338] Plato, Laws, 807 c.

[339] For this their vast appetites were partly responsible. Milo and Theagenes each ate a whole ox in a single day (Athen. 412 f). Astuanax the pankratiast ate what was meant for nine guests (ibid. 413 b).

[340] Xen. Banquet, ii. 17.

[341] Galen, On Medic. and Gym. § 33 (ed. Kühn. v. 870).

[342] Philos. On Gymnastics, 54.