We know that Eupolis, whose name stands next below in the list, won a victory at the City Dionysia of 421 B.C. and that Hermippus and Cratinus were successful at the City festival in 422 and 423 B.C., respectively. This leaves the City Dionysia of 424 B.C. for some unknown victor, who may have been Aristophanes producing a play in his own name. But, on the other hand, these victories of Hermippus and Cratinus were certainly not their first, and it is possible that the victory of Eupolis in 421 B.C. was also not his first. If any of these men was in fact the City victor in 424 B.C., Aristophanes’ name could be read at this point on the stone only by supposing that he had won a City victory at some date prior to the _Knights_ and consequently with a play which had been brought out by another. If this hypothesis is correct, it would automatically be established that at this period victories were credited to the actual poet rather than to his didascalus. The argument here is by no means conclusive, however, and most authorities follow Dr. Wilhelm in restoring the name of Aristomenes, another poet who belonged to the same general period. [Illustration: FIG. 78.—Wilhelm’s Transcription and Restoration of Four Fragments of the Athenian Victors’-List. See p. 327, n. 1] [Ἀστικαὶ ποητῶν] [Τηλεκλεί]δης ΙΙΙ Νικοφῶ[ν —] [κωμικῶν] [.........]ς Ι Θεόπομπ[ος —] [Χιωνίδης —] — Κη]φισό[δοτος —] — — ...]ι[ππος? —] 5 — Ι Φερ[εκράτης —] — [.........]ς Ι Ἕρμ[ιππος —] — — Ἀρι[στομένης —] — [Μάγνη]ς ΔΙ Εὔ[πολις —] — [......ο]ς Ι Κα[λλίστρατος —] — 10 [Ἀλικιμέ]νη[ς] Ι Φρύ[νιχος —] — [......]ς Ι Ἀμ[ειψίας —] — [Εὐφρόν]ιος Ι Πλά[των —] — [Ἐκφαν]τίδης ΙΙΙΙ Φιλ[ωνίδης —] — [Κρατῖνος] ΓΙ Λύκ[ις —] — 15 [Διοπ]είθης ΙΙ Λεύ[κων —] — [Κρά]της ΙΙΙ [Καλλία]ς ΙΙ