Pindar, _Ol._ v. 6 ὑπὸ βουθυσίαις ἀέθλων τε πεμπταμέροις ἁμίλλαις. The reading and interpretation are much disputed. The scholiasts certainly interpreted πεμπταμέροις “as lasting five days,” and even if the reading πεμπταμέροις is correct, the occurrence of the form πεμπτάς for πεμπάσ, and the analogy of forms like ὀγδώκοντα, ἑβδομήκοντα make this meaning at least possible, while there is considerable evidence against the rendering “fifth-day contests.” Mie, _Quaestiones Agonisticae_, p. 29. Footnote 289: Schol. Pindar, _Ol._ v. 8, iii. 33. Footnote 290: Schol. vet. Pindar, _Ol._ v. 8 πεμπταμέροις ἁμίλλαις· ἐπεὶ ἐπὶ πέντα ἡμέρασ ῎θγετο αὐτὰ τὰ ἀγωνίσματα. Footnote 291: v. 9, 3. Footnote 292: _Hellen._ vii. 4. Footnote 293: Carl Robert in _Hermes_ xxxv.; C. Gaspar in Dar.-Sagl. _s.v._ “Olympia.” It had been my intention to discuss Robert’s theory in the _J.H.S._, but I find that nearly all my objections to it have been anticipated by Frederic Mie in _Philologus_, lx. Mie’s own theory has in its turn been superseded by Weniger’s, which alone offers a satisfactory explanation both of Xenophon and of Pausanias. Footnote 294: Robert’s theory of the two sacrifices of thanksgiving offered after the pentathlon and horse-races on the 3rd and 5th days of the festival is pure fiction, and has been conclusively disproved by Mie, _l.c._ Footnote 295: _Clio_, 1904, p. 127; Krause, _Olympia_, p. 84. Footnote 296: Paus. vi. 15, 5. Footnote 297: _Quaest. Symp._ ii. 5. Footnote 298: Paus. vi. 13, 3. The same order is twice adopted by Philostratus in _Gym._ ch. 4 and 32. Footnote 299: If the final of the stade-race followed the dolichos, the heats would naturally precede it, so as to allow competitors a rest between the heats and the final. Footnote 300: Paus. vi. 6, 5; vi. 15, 4. Footnote 301: Plut. _Quaest. Symp._ ii. 5, 2; Paus. iii. 14, 3; Phil. _Gym._ 7; Artemidorus, _Oneirocrit._ i. 65. Footnote 302: Paus. vi. 24, 1. Footnote 303: Lucian, _Timon_, 50. Footnote 304: Robert and Mie hold that the crowns were presented after each event, Weniger that they were all presented on the 16th. Footnote 305: Schol. Pindar, _Ol._ v. 8 τῆς ἑκκαιδεκάτης ἐν ᾖ τὰ ἆθλα ἐδίδοτο. This is possibly a paraphrase of an earlier scholion on _Ol._ iii. 35 καὶ τῃ ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ γίνεται ἡ κρίσις. Footnote 306: Paus. v. 21, 14. Footnote 307: Africanus, 6, 67, R. Footnote 308: _Imag._ ii. 6. This passage is particularly important, as the picture represents the very moment after the contest is over. Footnote 309: In Homer the prizes are set at the finish of the race, or beside the ring, and are awarded immediately afterwards. They are represented similarly on black-figured vases. The same idea is suggested by the well-known epigram on Myron’s statue of Ladas, _Anth. Pal._ xvi. 54 πηδήσει τάχα χαλκὸς ἐπὶ στέφος. Footnote 310: