[58] Thukyd., V, 11.
[59] Plut., Timoleon, 39; Diod. Sic., XVI, 90.1.
[60] Aulus Gellius, X, 18.5.
[61] Arrian, Anabasis, VII, 14. Games were held every four years in honor of Antinoos, the favorite of Hadrian, at Mantinea: P., VIII, 9.8.
[62] Strabo, XIV, 1.31 (C. 644.)
[63] P., IX, 2, 5–6; he says that they were celebrated every fourth year and that the chief prizes were for running.
[64] Philostr., Vit. Soph., II, p. 624; Heliod., Aethiop., I, 17; Aristotle, Constit. of Athens, 58; cf. P., I, 29.4. Games were also held in the Academy in honor of Eurygyes: Hesych., s. v. ἐπ’ Εὐρυγύῃ ἀγών.
[65] Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria,3 1883, I, p. 374 (Corneto); II, pp. 323 and 330 (Chiusi).
[66] On the Etruscan origin of the ludi funebres, see Val. Max., II, 4.4; Tertullian, de Spect., 12; Servius ad Virg., Aen., X, 520. For the Etruscan origin of the munera gladiatorum, see Tertull., op. cit., 5; Athenæus, IV, 39 (quoting Nikolaos of Damascus); cf. Strabo, V, 4.13 (C. 250). They were first introduced into Rome in 264 B. C. in honor of D. Junius Brutus; Livy, XVI (Epit.); and are frequently mentioned: e. g., by Livy, XXIII, 30, 15; XXXI, 50, 4; XXXIX, 46, 2; XLI, 28, 11; Polyb., XXXII, 14, 5; Serv., ad Aen., III, 67 and V, 78; Suetonius, Julius, 26; etc. See Dar.-Sagl., II, 2, pp. 1384 f., 1563 f.
[67] Page 28; he quotes P. W. Joyce, Social History of Ireland, II, pp. 435 f.