[368] Illustr. Plate VI. A. [369] Illustr. Plates VI. A and VI. B. [370] See especially the Panathenaic vases in the British Museum. [371] _e.g._ Brit. Mus. E 288. [372] Brit Mus. B 361, E 427, E 288. [373] Illustr. Plate VIII. [374] Aristot. _Pol._ viii. 4. [375] Aristoph. _Clouds_, 973. [376] _Anthol. Palat._ xiii. 222. [377] Herod, vi. 127-129. [378] Athen. 629 B. [379] Xen. _Banquet_, ii. 19. [380] Plato, _Laws_, 830 C. [381] Philostratus, _On Gymnastics_, 55. [382] Galen, _De sanit. tuend._ ii. 8. [383] Grasberger, i. 154. [384] Described at length, Grasberger, i. 84-98. [385] Aristoph. _Knights_, 1238. [386] See Illustr. Plate VI. A for a wrestling lesson. Lucian, _Ass._ 8-11. [387] Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Grenfell and Hunt, Part III. No. 466 (1903). The papyrus is of the second century. [388] _Anthol. Palat._ xii. 206. [389] Isok. _Antid._ 184. [390] See Illustr. Plate VI. B for a pankration lesson. [400] Plut. _Alkib._ ii. 3. [401] See Illustr. Plate VII. [402] See Illustr. Plate V. B. [403] Illustr. Plate V. A. [404] Illustr. Plate V. B. [405] Athen. 584 C, referring to about 320 B.C. [406] Aristoph. _Peace_, 357. [407] Zeno in Athen. 561 C. [408] Athen. 609 D. [409] ἀποδυτήριον [apodytêrion]. See Plato, _Charmides_, 153 ff. [410] κατάστεγος δρόμος [katastegos dromos]. Plato, _Euthud._ 273 A. [411] Theodoros (Plato, _Theait._). [412] This was often done outside (Plato, _Theait._ 144 C). The oil-room (ἐλαιοθέσιον [elaiothesion]) of Vitruvius may be a later invention. This preliminary anointing was called ξηραλοιφεῖν [xêraloiphein]. After the baths they rubbed themselves with a mixture of oil and water; this was χυτλοῦσθαι [chytlousthai]. [413] See Xen. _Banquet_, 1. 7. [414] Aristoph. _Knights_, 492. [415] Philostratus, _On Gymnastics_, 56. It was usual to be dusted before wrestling. [416] Xen. _Banquet_. [417] For a good bathing scene, see Brit. Mus. Vase E 83. Also E 32. [418] Philostratus, _On Gymnastics_, 57. [419] Plato, _Laws_, 830 C. [420] Particular Sophists attached themselves to particular gymnasia and palaistrai which they came to regard as their schools. Mikkos has already occupied the newly-built palaistra in the _Lusis_, 204 A. Cp. Plato’s position at the Akademeia and Aristotle’s at the Lukeion. [421] αὐλή [aulê] (Plato, _Lusis_, 206 E). [422] κονίστρα [konistra]. [423] Plato, _Laws_, 830 B. [424] For the excitement of the spectators and their shouts of encouragement see Isok. _Euag._ 32. [425] Some gymnasia provided a large “Room of the Epheboi.” So in Vitruvius’ model. [426] Athen. 495-6. [427] Plato, _Polit._ 294 D, E.