Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

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Jüthner, p. 28.

Footnote 662:

_Mus. Greg._ i. 103.

Footnote 663:

Heliodorus, _Aethiop._ x. 31.

Footnote 664:

Homer, _Il._ xxiii. 712; Lucian, _Anacharsis_, 1; Philostrat. _Vit. Soph._ 225.

Footnote 665:

Plutarch, _Symp._ ii. 4, enumerates as wrestling terms συστάσεις, παραθέσεις, ἐμβολαί, παρεμβολαί. Jüthner in his interesting account of the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus appears to deny this interpretation, but suggests no satisfactory alternative.

Footnote 666:

On the interior of this kylix the same group is repeated, but the moment is not quite the same. Cercyon appears to be trying to draw back.

Footnote 667:

Homolle, _Fouilles de Delphes_, iv. 76.

Footnote 668:

_Anacharsis_, 24.

Footnote 669:

A small ivory statuette of two boys wrestling, recently acquired by the British Museum, perhaps represents the moment of the turn.

Footnote 670:

Dar.-Sagl. 4624.

Footnote 671:

Phil. _Gym._ 35; Xen. _Lac. Rep._ 5, 9; Aristoph. _Eq._ 491.

Footnote 672:

Athenaeus xiii. p. 566.

Footnote 673:

Munich, 3; Gerh. _A. V._ 114. In _J.H.S._ xxv. I have dealt more fully with the fights of Heracles.

Footnote 674:

Schreiber, _Atlas_, xxiv. 10.

Footnote 675:

_J.H.S._ xxv. p. 280, διαλαμβάνειν, μεσοφέρδειν, μεσοφέρδην, μέσον ἔχειν; διαλαμβάνειν means to clasp both hands round an opponent’s waist; περιτιθέναι means rather to put one arm round an opponent as in taking a grip for the heave, but does not necessarily imply that the hands are clasped. _Vide_ Jüthner, _Philostratus_, p. 28.

Footnote 676:

_Vide_ _J. H. S._ xxv. pp. 281 ff., and Figs. 18, 19, 20.

Footnote 677:

For references see _J.H.S._ p. 283, n. 76.

Footnote 678:

Quintus iv. 215; Nonnus xxxvii. 553-601. For a brief account of these _vide_ _J.H.S._ xxv. p. 25.

Footnote 679:

l. 25 σὺ αὐτον μεταβὰς πλέξον· σὺ μεταβαλοῦ.

Footnote 680:

xxiv. 111.

Footnote 681:

_Char._ xxvii.

Footnote 682:

_Fouilles de Delphes_, iv. 46, 47.

Footnote 683:

_Collection Philip_, Paris, 1905, No. 484; de Ridder, _Collection de Clercy_, Paris, 1905, iii. 253, Pl. xli. 3.

Footnote 684:

_Ocypus_, 60.

Footnote 685:

_Equites_, 261-3; Demosthenes _in Cononem_, 8. For a full discussion of this passage and of the bronzes _vide_ _J.H.S._ xxv. pp. 289-293.

Footnote 686:

Krause, _Gym._ 428.

Footnote 687:

Aelian, _Var. Hist._ xi.

Footnote 688:

Eustathius, _Il._ ii. p. 331, 18, 39.

Footnote 689:

Epigram on a Spartan by Damagetus, _Anth. Plan._ i. 1.

Footnote 690:

_Quaest. Symp._ ii. 5, 2.