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curgus and Iphitus were contemporary ( 6 ). But Iphitus did notGREEKs.reftore ali the olympic games. He a reftored indeed the racing’ Pauran - L 5 -in the firft olympiad, Coraebus being vitftor. In the I4th olym-piad, the double ftadium was added, Hypasnus being vicftor: andin the 18th olympiad, the quinquertium and wreftling wereadded, Lampus and Eurybatus, two Spartans, being vi&ors :and the difc was one of the games of the quinquertium. b Pau- b Paufan.i.6.lanias telis us, that there were three dites kept in the olympictreafury at Altis: thefe therefore having the name of Lycurgusupon them, fhew that they were given by him, at the inftitutionof the Quinquertium, in the i8th olympiad ( 7 ). Now Poly-dectes kingof Sparta, being flain before the birth of his fon Cha-rillus, or Charilaus, left the kingdom to Lycurgus his brother;and Lycurgus, upon the birth of Charillus, became tutor to thechild; and after about eight months travelled into Crete andAlia, till the child grew up; and brought back with him the po-ems of Homer; and foon after publiihed his laws ( s ), fuppofeupon the 2 2d or 2Zd olympiad; for he was then growing old :and Terpander was a lyric poet, and began to flourilli about thistime; for c he imitated Orpheus and Homer, and fung Homer’s' e F J“^-verfes and his own, and wrote the laws of Lycurgus in verie.Tom.n. P .and was vidtor in the Pythie games in the 26th olympiad, asmAs Strom..above. He was the firft who diftinguifhed the mode3 of lyric l6 ' F 'mufic by feveral names.. Ardalus and Cion as foon after did thelike for wind-mufic: and from heuceforward,. by the encou.-ragement of the Pythie games, now inftituted, feveral eminentmuficians and poets flourilhed in Greece: as Archilochus, Eume-lus Corinthius, Polymneftus, Thaletas, Xenodemus, Xenocritus,

Sacadas, Tyrtaeus, Tlefilla, Rhianus, Alcrnan, Arion, Stefichorus,'Mimnermnus, Alcaeus, Sappho, Theognis, Anacreon, Ibycus, Si-monides, fEfcbylus, Pindar, by whom the mufic and poetry ofthe Greeks w:ere brought to perfeftion»

C) Vid. § IV.

(*') Which Athenaiis mentions as a thing.xmiverfally agreed, lib. 14. p. 635.

( 7 ) lappiehend, that it was not on any of the three difes at Altis, but on the famous difcof Iphitus, preferved in the temple of Juno at Elis, that the name of Lycurgus was inlcribed.

This difc had no reference to the inftitution of the gime of the Quoit; but contained the orj-ginal articles of the armifiice preferibed by Iphitus, when he reflored the olympic games, to be„obferved ever afterwards during the celebrity. Sec. Paufan. lib. 5. c. 20. and Phlegon. Tiall. iftthe fragment of his work J)e Oljmplenicis, and Jackfon’s Chronology, vol. III..

(.*) Plutarch in Lycurgo...

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