CHAPTER XXVII.
1. There is an allusion to this curious feature of the Olympic contests in the Fourth Idyll of Theocritus. Casaubon (_Lect. Theocr._ ad Idyll. 4) quoted by Schweighäuser, in his note on this passage (_Diss._ III.
1. There is an allusion to this curious feature of the Olympic contests in the Fourth Idyll of Theocritus. Casaubon (_Lect. Theocr._ ad Idyll. 4) quoted by Schweighäuser, in his note on this passage (_Diss._ III.