[353] As shown by the beginning of Plato, Lusis, 203 B.

[354] Aristoph. Birds, 141.

[355] Antiphon, Second Tetralogy.

[356] The law quoted in Aischines ag. Timarchos is spurious, being a later interpolation; it cannot therefore be used as evidence.

[357] [Xen.] Constit. of Athens, ii. 10.

[358] The division of the boys into classes by age in the contests points to such a usage. Cp. the ἡλικίαι at Teos.

[359] Later, this was done by a special official, the ἀλειπτής.

[360] Aristot. Pol. iv. 1. 1.

[361] e.g. Plato, Gorg. 504 A; Protag. 313 D; Aristot. Pol. iii. 16. 8.

[362] Plato, Gorg. 452 B.