[636] Froehner, Les medaillons de l’Empire romain, 1878, p. 123; Furtw., Mp., l. c.
[637] Mp., pp. 229 f., especially pp. 233 f.; Mw., pp. 422 f., especially pp. 426 f.
[638] On an Argive funerary relief: see A. M., III, 1878, pp. 287 f. and Pl. XIII: this free adaptation of the Doryphoros dates from the middle of the fourth century B. C.; it will be treated later on in our discussion of the Doryphoros.
[639] Cf. Ph., 16, (the palæstra of Hermes, the first known); Babr., 48,5 (παλαιστρίτης θεός). A trainer of professional athletes was called a γυμνάστης (a term sometimes applied to athletic gods): Xen., Mem., II, 1.20; Plato, de Leg., 720 E; etc.
[640] E. g., Suppl., 189, 333; Agam., 513.
[641] As in Iliad, XV, 428; XVI, 500; XXIV, 1. Eustathius in a scholion on the latter passage wrongly says that Aischylos called the ἀγοραῖοι θεοί “ἀγώνιοι θεοί.”
[642] As in Hesychios, who says ἀγώνιοι θεοὶ = οἱ τῶν ἀγώνων προεστῶτες.
[643] 509, ὕπατος χώρας, “lord of Nemea.”
[644] Ibid., ὁ Πύθιος ἄναξ.
[645] 515.