Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

by Walter Woodburn Hyde

[137] Foerster, 7.

[138] Frag., (= F. H. G., III, p. 604).

[139] V, 7.7; cf. Pindar, Ol., III, 24 f.

[140] Ol., III, 13 f.

[141] Pseudo-Aristot., de mirab. Auscult., 51; schol. on Aristoph., Plutus, 586; Suidas, s. v. κοτίνου στεφάνῳ.

[142] P., V, 15.3; cf. Theophrastos, Hist. Plant., IV, 13, 2; Pliny, H. N., XVI, 240.

[143] Schol. on Pindar, Ol., III, 60, Boeckh, p. 102.

[144] Pseudo-Aristot., l. c.; schol. on Pindar, Ol., III, 60, and VIII, 12, Boeckh, pp. 102 and 189.

[145] Weniger, Der heilige Oelbaum in Olympia, 1895.

[146] P., X, 7.5; Marmor Parium, 53 f. On the reason why the laurel was the prize for a Pythian victory, see P., X, 7.8; cf. VIII, 48.2 (as above); schol. on Pindar, Pyth., Argum., Boeckh, p. 298. On the Delphian laurel, see also Pliny, H. N., XV, 127; Dio Cass., LXIII, 9. Virgil crowns his victors with laurel: Aen., V, 246 and 539.