557 V. 4. 4 In an inscription at Olympia (Brunck. Anal. II. p. 193.) he was called the son of Hæmon; according to common tradition, he was the son of Praxonides. In Eusebius (Hieronym.) should be written, _Iphitus Praxonidis vel Æmonis f_. 558 I. 66, 67. 559 Concerning this word see Boissonade, Classical Journal, vol. XX. p. 289. 560 Boeckh Inscript. No. 11. _ 561 E.g._ by Wolf Proleg. Homer. p. 67. 562 Of Clem. Alexand. Strom. I. p. 308. 563 For the date of Terpander, see book IV. ch. 6. § 1. note. 564 Scymnus Chius, v. 313. Strabo VI. p. 259. 565 Plutarch. Lyc. 13. whose words should be thus understood, “_Lycurgus did not enact any written laws, but merely sanctioned existing customs._” The ῥῆτραι however were evidently not mere ἔθη, but oracular dicta, expressed in definite words, which had been preserved from ancient times. Plutarch. Agesil. 26. calls them Αἰ καλούμεναι τρεῖς ῥῆτραι, and also de Esu Carn. II. 1. ὁ θεῖος Λυκοῦργος ἐν ταῖς τρίσι ῥήτραις; consequently this was in a certain degree a fixed number.—One of these very regulations was μὴ χρῆσθαι νόμοις ἐγγράφοις. 566 Plutarch, de Pyth. Orac. 19. αἱ ῥῆτραι, δι᾽ ὧν ἐκόσμησε τὴν Λακεδαιμονίων, πολιτείαν Λυκοῦργος, ἐδόθησαν αὑτῷ καταλογάδην. 567 The Delphian Inscription in Boeckh Corp. Inscript. n. 1711. The Cretan in Chishull Ant. Asiat. p. 135. The Samian and Prienian in Chandler Inscript. p. 1. 38. 1, 2, 3. Marm. Oxon. p. 25. 568 I agree with Creuzer Histor. Ant. Fragm. p. 122. that it is unnecessary _always_ to alter writers concerning ὄροι into ὡρόγραφοι, _i.e._ chronologists. The above Samian inscriptions expressly refer to historical works; and are we then to alter in Herodian p. 7. (where see the passages quoted), and in p. 39. ἐν Σαμίων ὄροις? _ 569 Monumenta saxis sculpta et ære prisco_, Tacitus Annal. IV. 44. 570 I mention Eumelus in this place, as being a Lyric poet in the modern sense of the word, on account of his ᾆσμα προσόδιον for the Messenian Theoria to Delos, Pausan. IV. 4. 1. 571 Περὶ νομοθετῶν. He must however have either invented himself, or adopted the inventions of others, if he mentioned the _names_ of the twenty assistants and friends of Lycurgus, Plutarch. Lyc. 5. 572 Plutarch. Lyc. 31. and 11. 573 See book II. ch. 10. § 2. 574 He was anciently celebrated for his mildness. Plutarch in the Life of Lycurgus, and de Adul. 16. On the other hand, Heraclides Ponticus 2. καὶ τὸν Χάριλλον (ΧΑΡΙΛΑΟΝ) τυραννικῶς ἄρχοντα μετέστησε. 575 Plutarch. Lyc. 576 Book III. ch. 1. The names of _Eunomus_ as the father and of _Eucosmus_ as the son of Lycurgus (Pausan. III. 16. 5.) belong to the class pointed out above, p. 69. note g. [Transcriber’s Note: This is the footnote to “capture of Ægialea,” starting “The name of Tisamenus.”]