251 Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,2 No. 587, lines 259 _sqq._ From other Attic inscriptions we learn that the Eleusinian games comprised a long foot-race, a race in armour, and a pancratium. See Dittenberger, _op. cit._ No. 587 note 171 (vol. ii. p. 313). The Great Eleusinian Games also included the pentathlum (Dittenberger, _op. cit._ No. 678, line 2). The pancratium included wrestling and boxing; the pentathlum included a foot-race, leaping, throwing the quoit, throwing the spear, and wrestling. See W. Smith, _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities_, Third Edition, _s.vv._ “Pancratium” and “Pentathlon.” 252 Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,2 No. 246, lines 46 _sqq._; Ch. Michel, _Recueil d’Inscriptions Grecques_, No. 609. See above, p. 61. The identification lies all the nearer to hand because the inscription records a decree in honour of a man who had sacrificed to Demeter and Persephone at the Great Eleusinian Games, and a provision is contained in the decree that the honour should be proclaimed “at the Ancestral Contest of the Festival of the Threshing-floor.” The same Ancestral Contest at the Festival of the Threshing-floor is mentioned in another Eleusinian inscription, which records honours decreed to a man who had sacrificed to Demeter and Persephone at the Festival of the Threshing-floor. See Ἐφημερὶς Ἀρχαιολογική, 1884, coll. 135 _sq._ 253 See above, p. 61. 254 Diodorus Siculus, v. 68; Arrian, _Indic._ 7; Lucian, _Somnium_, 15; _id._, _Philopseudes_, 3; Plato, _Laws_, vi. 22, p. 782; Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, i. 5. 2; Cornutus, _Theologiae Graecae Compendium_, 28, p. 53, ed. C. Lang; Pausanias, i. 14. 2, vii. 18. 2, viii. 4. 1; Aristides, _Eleusin._ vol. i. pp. 416 _sq._, ed. G. Dindorf; Hyginus, _Fabulae_, 147, 259, 277; Ovid, _Fasti_, iv. 549 _sqq._; _id._, _Metamorph._ v. 645 _sqq._; Servius, on Virgil, _Georg._ i. 19. See also above, p. 54. As to Triptolemus, see L. Preller, _Demeter und Persephone_ (Hamburg, 1837), pp. 282 _sqq._; _id._, _Griechische Mythologie_,4 i. 769 _sqq._ 255 C. Strube, _Studien über den Bilderkreis von Eleusis_ (Leipsic, 1870), pp. 4 _sqq._; J. Overbeck, _Griechische Kunstmythologie_, iii. (Leipsic, 1873-1880), pp. 530 _sqq._; A. Baumeister, _Denkmäler des classischen Altertums_, iii. 1855 _sqq._ That Triptolemus sowed the earth with corn from his car is mentioned by Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, i. 5. 2; Cornutus, _Theologiae Graecae Compendium_, 28, pp. 53 _sq._, ed. C. Lang; Hyginus, _Fabulae_, 147; and Servius, on Virgil, _Georg._ i. 19. 256 Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,2 No. 20, lines 37 _sqq._; E. S. Roberts and E. A. Gardner, _Introduction to Greek Epigraphy_, ii. (Cambridge, 1905), No. 9, p. 24.