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olymp. 47. accordingto the marbles, that is 54 years before theGaEEKs.conqueft of Media; and thefe years being fhortened in the pro-portion of four to feven, become 3 i years; which fubduiftedfrom an, 4. olymp. 60. place the conqueft of Cirrha upon an. 1.olymp. 53: and, by the like corredtion of the marbles, Alc-maeon entertained and condudted the meftengers whom Croefusfent to confult the oracle at Delphi, an. 1. olymp. 38; that is,four years before the conqueft of Sardes by Cyrus : and the ty-ranny of Pififtratus, which by the marbles began at Athens, an.

4. olymp. 54. by the like correcti011 began an, 3. olymp. 57 ;and by confequence Solon died an. 4. olymp. 57. This methodmay be ufed alone, where other arguments are wanting ; but•where they are not wanting, the beft arguments are to be pre-ferred.

LIII. Iphitus a prefided both in the temple of Jupiter 01ym- aStralio d- S*pus, and in the olvmpic games, and fo did his fucceflors till the P 3SS ‘2,6th olympiad; and fo long the vi&ors were rewarded with a.

Tripos (’) : but then the Pifaeans getting above the Eleans, be-gan to prefide, and rewarded the victors with a crown, and in-ftituted the Cornea to Apollo ( z ); and continued to prefide tillPhidon interrupted them, that is, till about the time of the 4ptholympiad: for b in the 48th olympiad the Eleans enteved the*Paufan.1.6.country of the Pifaeans, lufpetfting their defigns, but were pre- c ‘ 22 'vailed upon to return horne quietly ; afterwards the Pifaeans con-federated with feveral other Greek nations, and made war uponthe Eleans, and in the end were beaten : in this war I conceiveit was that Phidon prefided, fuppofe in the 49th olympiad ; forc in the zoth olympiad, for putting an end to the contentions c Paufan. 1.$.between the kings about prefiding, two men were cliofen by lot c ’ 9 ‘out of the city Elis to prefide, and their number in the 6ztholympiad was increafed to nine, and afterwards to ten ; and

in the 7th olympiad by the injunSion of the Belphic oracle, if the authorityof Phlegon Trallia-nus may be relied on. Mr. Weft imagines that the prize before this was alamb. (See his Differ-tation on the Olympie Games, § XVI.) From the third olympic ode of Pindar it fhould feem,that thewild olive-crown was one of the original inftitutions of Hercules. And this is eonfirmedby Paufanias, lib. 5 c. 7.

• ( 2 ) The Carnea was a Spartan feftival inftituted in the a6th olympiad. Vide Menrfti Grec.

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