[442] Plato, Rep. 396 A, B.
[443] Antiphon, The Choreutes, 11.
[444] Xen. Banquet, ii. 17.
[445] Lakonian and Attic (Herod. vi. 129); Persian (Xen. Anab. vi. 1. 10); Troizenìan Epizephurian Lokrian, Cretan, Ionian, Mantinean in Lucian, On Dancing, 22.
[446] Not necessarily nude, for γυμνός only represents the absence of the armour used in the War-dance.
[447] Plato, Laws, 815 A.
[448] Lucian, On Dancing, 8.
[449] Lucian, On Dancing, 8.
[450] The dance known as γυμνοπαιδική is described in Athen. 631 b, as including representations of wrestling. In 678 b, c, the festival of the Γυμνοπαιδίαι, and the dances in it are referred to, but no mention is there made of wrestling.
[451] Athen. 630 d.