[53\4: Thus the descendants of Bakchis in Corinth traced their descent to Aletes (D.S. 7, 9, 4; Paus. 2, 4, 3); the descendants of Aipytos in Messenia to Kresphontes (Paus. 4, 3, 8), the descendants of Agis and Eurypon in Sparta to Eurysthenes and Prokles. The real ancestors were in these cases well known and could not be entirely eclipsed (being too deeply rooted in cult); thus later, as well as in the earlier period, these same families are called ~Bakchi/dai, Aiputi/dai~, not ~Hêraklei=dai~ (D.S., loc. cit., Paus. 4, 3, 8); the Spartan royal families are still Agidai, Eurypontidai, while the fictitious ancestors Eurysthenes and Prokles never quite achieved the status of ~archêge/tai~: Ephoros ap. Str. 366. In many other, perhaps more numerous, cases the fictitious ancestor may have ousted the real and once better known from men's minds altogether.] [54\4: [Arist.] _Mirab._ 106.] {147} [55\4: See Paus. 10, 4, 10. In an oracle ap. Plu., _Sol._ 9: ~_archêgou\s_ chô/ras thusi/ais _hê/rôas_ enoi/kous hi/laso~.] [56\4: Plu., _Arist._ 11, names seven ~archêge/tai Plataie/ôn~; Clem. Al., _Protr._ ii, 35 P., gives four of these (~Kuklai=os~ seems to be a mistake). Androkrates seems to have been the most prominent; his ~te/menos~ is mentioned by Hdt. ix, 25, his ~hêrô=|on~ Thuc. iii, 24, 1; it stood in a thick grove, Paus. loc. cit.] [57\4: Paus. 6, 24, 9-10.] [58\4: A.R. ii, 835-50, says that this Hero was Idmon the prophet, others called him Agamestor. Sch. ad 845: ~le/gei de\ kai\ promathi/das, ho/ti dia\ to\ agnoei=n ho/stis ei/ê _epichô/rion hê/rôa_ kalou=sin hoi Hêrakleô=tai~. He was the local daimon worshipped on the spot before the colony came, and then taken over by the colonists for their own. Cf. the case of Rhesos, above, n. 36.] [59\4: Paus. 6, 20, 15-19. It was a round altar, according to many ~ta/phos andro\s auto/chthonos kai\ agathou= ta\ es hippikê/n~--the grave and altar being one as was the grave and altar of Aiakos at Aegina, Paus. 2, 29, 8--whose name was Olenios. Acc. to others it was the grave of Dameon son of Phlious and of his horse; or the ~keno\n êri/on~ of Myrtilos set up in his honour by Pelops; or of Oinomaos; or of Alkathoös son of Porthaon, one of the suitors of Hippodameia--to say nothing of the learned suggestion of the ~anê\r Aigu/ptios~ given by Paus. l.c. as a last resort. Acc. to Hesych. ~tara/xippos~ it belonged to Pelops himself, acc. to Lyc. 42 f. to a giant called Ischenos (see Sch. and Tz.). Besides all this a ~tara/xippos~ seems to have been almost indispensable on the racecourses of the great games. The Isthmus and Nemea had theirs as well (Paus. § 19)--and Paus. 10, 37, 4, mentions it as something unusual that the course at Delphi had no ~tara/xippos~. Cf. Pollak, _Hippodromica_, p. 91 ff., 1890.]