2. The _Quoit of Iphitus_, upon which was inscribed in a circle the formula for proclaiming the sacred armistice of Elis, and in which Iphitus and Lycurgus were mentioned as the founders of it.(529) There is no reason for doubting its genuineness, which was recognised by Aristotle, and the institution which it mentioned was considered by all ancient writers as a real fact.(530) Secondly, the _lists of the conquerors at the Olympic games_ brought down uninterruptedly from the victory of Chorœbus,(531) which always recorded the conquerors in the foot-race, and in later times at least those in the other games.(532) It is probable that they were originally engraved on single pillars, and afterwards collected under the inspection of the Hellanodicæ.(533) Similar catalogues of conquerors in other games, besides the four great ones, were also probably not uncommon, but they were generally inscribed on separate pillars, and were therefore of little use to the historian.(534) The names of the _conquerors at the Carnean games_ at Sparta were also registered, so that Hellanicus was enabled to compose from them a work called Καρνεονῖκαι. The _register at Sicyon_ contained a list of the priestesses of Here at Argos, and the poets and musicians of the games.(535) But this also contained fabulous accounts: for example, the invention of playing and singing on the harp by Amphion. Nor were the _catalogues of the priestesses of Here_, which were probably kept at Argos, altogether free from fable, as may be perceived from the fragments of Hellanicus’s chronological work on these priestesses, which was probably founded on the official catalogues.(536)