What evidence does Pausanias afford of this? As I have said, there is not a word about a register or catalogue, but there are several notes of old offerings and inscriptions, which show us what sort of materials existed, at least in Pausanias' day. And there is no reason whatever to believe that many ancient monuments or inscriptions had been injured, unless Hippias carried out his work of falsifying them on a large scale. There were indeed several monuments antedated by mere vulgar mistakes. Such was the _stele_ of Chionis (vi. 13, 2), who was reported to have won in four successive contests (Ols. 28-31), but the reference in the inscription to _armed races as not yet introduced_, proved even to Pausanias that the writer of it must have lived long after Chionis' alleged period. There was again the monument of Pheidolas' children, whose epigram Pausanias notes as conflicting (vi. 13, 10) with [Greek: ta Êleiôn es tous Olympionikas grammata. ogdoê gar Ol. kai hexêkostê kai ou pro tautês estin en tois Êl. grammasi hê nikê tôn Ph. paidôn]. These [Greek: grammata]--a word apparently distinct from [Greek: anagraphai]--are probably nothing but the treatise of Hippias, preserved and copied at Elis. Had these [Greek: grammata] indeed been an authentic register, inscribed at the time of each victory, is it possible that any epigrams of later date would have been allowed to conflict with it? Surely not. But if the register came to be concocted at a late period, such discrepancies might be hard to avoid. But as regards genuine early monuments, Pausanias tells us that Corœbus had no statue at Olympia, and implies that _there was no record of his victory save the epigram on his tomb_ at the border of Elis and Arcadia. Then comes the case of the Spartan Eutelidas (vi. 15, 8), who conquered as a boy in the 38th Ol., the only contest ever held for a pentathlon of boys. [Greek: esti de hê te eikôn archaia tou Eut., kai ta epi tô bathrô grammata amydra hypo tou chronou.] But this statue cannot have been so old even as the 38th Ol. For in vi. 18, 7, Pausanias tells us that the first athlete's statues set up at Olympia were those of Praxidamas the Æginetan, who won in boxing at the 59th Ol., and that of the Opuntian Rexibios the pancratiast, at the 61st. 'These portrait statues are not far from the pillar of Œnomaos, and are made of wood, Rexibios' of fig-tree, but the Æginetan's of cypress, and less decayed than the other.' Just below this we have a mention of a treasure-house, dedicated by the Sicyonian tyrant Myron in the 33rd Ol. In this treasure-house was an inscribed shield, 'an offering to Zeus from the Myones.' [Greek: ta de epi tê aspidi grammata parêktai men epi brachy, peponthe de auto dia tou anathêmatos to archaion] (vi. 19, 5).