The scanty records of victors in the Nemea seem to show that in the fifth century competitors came mostly from the Peloponnese, from Athens, and from the islands of the Aegean.[380] Particularly numerous are the victors from Aegina, though the preponderance of this island in the records may be partly due to the fact of its close connexion with Pindar, most of the Aeginetan victors being known to us from his odes. The Cean inscription, to which reference has already been made, shows that here, as at the Isthmus, the Ceans were constant competitors. The victories of the Oligaethidae of Corinth and the Timodemidae of Athens have been already mentioned. On the other hand, we find few victors at Nemea from either Italy or Sicily. In the succeeding centuries the interest of the festival seems to have declined; the few victors known to us are mostly Peloponnesian; many came from Elis. Under the Empire the only recorded victors are professionals from Alexandria and the powerful cities of Asia Minor. Footnote 332: _C.I.G._ 1688. Footnote 333: _N.H._ xxxv. 58. Footnote 334: Pindar, _Fr._ 83. Footnote 335: _B.C.H._ xxiii. p. 613. Footnote 336: A list of victors in the Pythian games is given in Krause, _Pythien, Nemeen und Isthmien_, pp. 85 ff. Details of the stadium and gymnasium at Delphi will be found below, pp. 257, 483. Footnote 337: _B.C.H._ xxx., 1906, pp. 191-328. Footnote 338: Plut. _Quaest. Symp._ ii. 5; Sophocles, _El._ 698. Footnote 339: Strabo viii. 6, 20; Aristid. _Isthm._ 45; Dion of Prusa, Διογ. ἡ Ἵσθμ. etc. Footnote 340: Unger, _Philologus_, xxxvii. p. 1. Footnote 341: xxxiii. 32. Footnote 342: Lucian, _Nero_, 1. Footnote 343: Krause, _op. cit._ p. 209. Footnote 344: A full account of this inscription is given in Jebb’s _Bacchylides_, pp. 187 ff. Footnote 345: Pindar, _O._ xiii. 98; _N._ ii. 22. Footnote 346: _Pax_, 880. In this play the personified Theoria comes back to earth in the train of Eirene, but Theoria is not confined to the Isthmian theoria. Footnote 347: Thucyd. viii. 9. Footnote 348: Xen. _Hell._ iv. 5. Footnote 349: Polyb. ii. 13. Footnote 350: Paus. ii. 2, 2. Footnote 351: _Gaz. Arch._, 1884, 1885. Footnote 352: Lucian, _Nero_. Footnote 353: _B.C.H._ xii. 510-528. Footnote 354: _Supra_, p. 174. Footnote 355: _Supra_, p. 172. Footnote 356: Julian, _Epist._ 35. Footnote 357: _I.G._ iv. 203. Footnote 358: Xen. _Hell._ iv. 5. Footnote 359: Bacchylides i., ii. Footnote 360: _Ib._ ix. Footnote 361: Pindar, _I._ i., ii. Footnote 362: Paus. vi. 1, 7; 2, 2. Footnote 363: Paus. vi. 13, 10. Footnote 364: _I.G._ ii. 1367. Footnote 365: Hyginus, _Fab._ 165, 173. Footnote 366: Plut. _Quaest. Symp._ ii. 4, v. 2, viii. 4. Footnote 367: _H.N._ xxxv. 58. Footnote 368: Krause, _op. cit._ p. 197. Footnote 369: