112 This was done by the monks at Athos, when Mahomet II. was threatening Constantinople. They foresaw his victory, and by early submission made their own terms, and saved both their liberties and their property. 113 Cf. also Plutarch’s tract _de Pyth. orac._ for details of _ciceroni_ and visitors in his day. 114 The hippodrome for the chariot races was, however, in the plain beneath, as Pausanias tells us (x. 37, 4). 115 This journey I since made by rail, in this place a harmless innovation. 116 Cf. the passage quoted from M. Georges Perrot above, p. 185. 117 A commodious stone museum has since been built, and the treasures are doubtless by this time transferred to it. But the great earthquake of 1885, so near Olympia, makes us tremble for the safety of any sculpture in a stone building under a solid roof. How terrible if the house were to fall on the _Hermes_! 118 This judgment of mine has since been confirmed by the authority of Overbeck. It is indeed very hard to estimate rightly a new discovery of this kind. I rated the work of Alkamenes, perhaps, too highly. 119 The student who desires to prosecute this difficult subject should study Overbeck’s _History of Greek Sculpture_, or the works of Mr. A. S. Murray, or Mr. Copeland Perry, on the same subject. 120 The fact that some of these public meetings are associated with the fall of tyrants does not, I think, disprove what is here advanced. 121 I have not room here to give in full my reasons for rejecting the earlier part of the Olympic register, as being the manufacture of Hippias of Elis, later than 400 B. C. But the reader who is curious on the subject may either consult my article in the _Journal of Hellenic Studies_ for 1881, or the appendix to my _Problems in Greek History_ (1892). He will then see that there is no direct evidence whatever for any early list, and that the antiquarian Pausanias, in his hunt after ancient monuments at Olympia, could find nothing earlier than the so-called 33d Olympiad. Plutarch, moreover, in the opening of his _Life of Numa_, tells us plainly that the list was the manufacture of Hippias, _and based on no trustworthy evidence_. To accept the list, therefore, in the face of these objections, is to exhibit culpable credulity. 122 So also under the early Roman Empire the exiles on the barren islands of the Ægean seem to have been allowed this indulgence. Cf. the curious passage from Plutarch I have quoted and explained in my _Greek World under Roman Sway_, p. 261. 123 The very stringent laws quoted by Æschines _in Timarchum_ may possibly be spurious, since we know from other allusions that they were not enforced. But more probably they existed as a dead letter, which could be revived if occasion required.