Footnote 79: Pindar, _Ol._ ix, xiii. etc. Footnote 80: _B.M. Bronzes_, 135. Footnote 81: Hdt. i. 59. Footnote 82: Hermipp. _Fr._ 14. The story is suspicious, because the Spartans are said not to have been allowed to compete in boxing. Footnote 83: Hdt. vi. 103. Footnote 84: Hdt. ii. 7. Footnote 85: At a later time a drachma was a day’s pay for a sailor, hoplite, or artisan, and in Pericles’ time a juryman received only two obols. In Solon’s time, owing to the scarcity of money, the value of a drachma must have been considerably higher. Footnote 86: On the Panathenaea _vide_ A. Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen._ Footnote 87: The palm branch as a symbol of victory does not occur till the close of the fifth century. Mr. F. B. Tarbell traces its origin to Delos, and derives its popularity from the restoration of the Delian festival by Athens in 426 B.C. “The Palm of Victory” in _Classical Philology_, vol. iii. pp. 264 ff. Footnote 88: Paus. vi. 13, 1. Hieron is apparently a mistake for Gelon. Footnote 89: Krause, _Olympia_, pp. 195-201. Footnote 90: Hdt. v. 47. Footnote 91: Pliny, _H. N._ vii. 47. Strabo, vi. 255. Footnote 92: Paus. vi. 11, 9; Lucian, _Deor. Concilium_, 12. Footnote 93: Simonides, 163 (Bergk). Quoted by Aristotle, _Rhet._ i. 7 and 9. Footnote 94: The attitude of the Spartans towards athletics is expressed in a poem of Tyrtaeus (Bergk, No. 12), in which he declares that he would set no store by speed of foot or skill in wrestling, apart from warlike might. Later their contempt of training and skill degenerated into sheer brutality. Phil. _Gym._ 9 and 58; Plutarch, _Apophthegm. Lac. Var._ 25 (233 E); _Anth. Plan._ i. 1. Footnote 95: Paus. vi. 11, 5. Footnote 96: Athenaeus, 522, 523. Footnote 97: _Gym._ 43. Footnote 98: Aelian, _V.H._ xii. 22. Footnote 99: _Ol. Ins._ 717. This and the Santorin stone (_I.G._ xiii. 449) are discussed in _J.H.S._ xxvii. p. 2. Footnote 100: Athenaeus, 412 D, E. CHAPTER V THE AGE OF THE ATHLETIC IDEAL, 500-440 B.C.