No satisfactory explanation of this rule has been offered. It certainly does not seem to have been always observed in earlier times. For example, Xenombrotus, _Ol. Ins._ 170, seems to have set up a portrait statue of himself for a single victory in the horse-race. Footnote 242: Louis Dyer, “The Olympian Council House,” in _Harvard Studies_, vol. xix. pp. 36 ff. Footnote 243: _Ol. Ins._ 56; cp. Mie, _Quaestiones Agonisticae_, p. 43. Footnote 244: Krause, _Olympia_, p. 203. Footnote 245: _I.G._ xiv. 739, πρωτελληνοδίκης ἐν Ἐφέσῳ καὶ ἐν Σμύρνη. Footnote 246: Curtius, _Ol._ Text, i. 52; Krause, _Olympia_, p. 207. Footnote 247: Suetonius, _Nero_, c. 23 ff. Footnote 248: Dion of Prusa, _Or._ xxxi. Footnote 249: _Anth. Pal._ xi. 75. The translation is taken from the “Dissertation on the Olympic Games,” in a translation of the _Odes of Pindar_, by Gilbert West (London, 1753), vol. ii. p. 92. Footnote 250: _Or._ vii. Διογένης ἢ περὶ ἀρετῆς; _Or._ viii. Διογένης ἢ Ἰσθμικός. Footnote 251: _Gym._ 45. Footnote 252: Paus. v. 21. Footnote 253: _Or._ xxix., xxx. Footnote 254: Dio Cassius, lii. 30. Footnote 255: Suetonius, _Octavianus_ 45. Footnote 256: Krause, _Gym._ p. 131; _I.G._ xiv. 1102-1110. Footnote 257: _I.G._ xiv. 1054, 1055. Footnote 258: Mie, _Quaestiones Agonisticae_, p. 46. Footnote 259: _I.G._ xiv. 746. Footnote 260: _Ol. Ins._ 436. Footnote 261: _B.S.A._ xii. p. 452. Footnote 262: _Historia Numorum_, p. 357. Footnote 263: _Ol. Ins._ 150-153. Footnote 264: _Ol. Ins._ 225. Footnote 265: _I.G._ xiv. 1102-1104. Footnote 266: The word ἀσυνέξωστος recalls the feats recorded of Milo and other athletes, whom no one could move from the place where they had taken their stand. Footnote 267: Such I take to be the meaning of the words μήτ’ ἐπεξελθὼν μήτε παραιτησάμενος. But the precise meaning of this and the following phrases μήτε κατὰ χάριν βασιλικήν ἀγῶνα ἔχων μηδὲ καινὸν ἀγῶνα νεικήσας is hard to determine. ἐπεξελθόντα bears this meaning in the Iobacchi Inscription. Roberts and Gardner, _Epigraphy_ ii. 91, l. 92. The antithesis of παραιτησάμενος would rather suggest the rendering “seeking a contest,” _e.g._ “pot-hunting.” Footnote 268: Pindar, _Ol._ vii., ix. Footnote 269: _Ol. Ins._ 54, 436. Both inscriptions belong to the close of the first century A.D. In two earlier inscriptions of the time of Augustus (53, 366) the distinction between οἱ Ἕλληνες and ἡ οἰκουμένη is still maintained. Footnote 270: The Alexandrine Olympia were probably founded in A.D. 176 by Marcus Aurelius, _I.G._ xiv. 1102. Footnote 271: _I.G._ xiv. 746. Footnote 272: πρῶτος τῶν ἀπ’ αἰῶνος πυκτῶν, _I.G._ iii. 128. Cp. πρωτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκουμένης, _C.I.G._ 2723. Footnote 273: _N.H._ vii. 20; cp. ii. 73. Footnote 274: _Ol. Ins._ 356. Footnote 275: