^{page 25 note 1} Il. iv. 387–90Google Scholar; Od. viii. 104–232.Google Scholar

^{page 25 note 2} Il. xxiiiGoogle Scholar, imitated by Virgil in Aen. v.

^{page 26 note 1} Athletics of the Ancient World (Oxford, 1930), 32.Google Scholar

^{page 26 note 2} v. 21.

^{page 27 note 1} Preliminary reports on these excavations appeared in the Illustrated London News of 15 01 1955Google Scholar, 15 Sept. 1956, and 28 Feb. 1959. The second of these articles is the most important for our purpose.

^{page 28 note 1} Modern writers sometimes call this rounded end the σφενδόνη. In fact the word is not used of a stadium by any Greek author.

^{page 29 note 1} ii. 1.7.

^{page 29 note 2} vi. 20. 8.

^{page 29 note 3} Vi. 1. 12.

^{page 32 note 1} An inscription from Delos of the second century b.c. (Inscr. Délos 1400. 9Google Scholar) suggests that ϋσπληξ was used for the whole gate, άγκών for the arm, παραοτάς or κίων for the post. Lucian's phrase ἔπεσεν ἡὕσπληξ shows that by the second century A.d. ὕσπληξ was used for the arm, which seems also to have been called κανών (Schol. Dionysius Periegeta 121). The trigger by which the gate was worked was the σχαστηρία. βαλβίς, another word for the starting-gate, seems to have been a wider term than ὕσπληξ, as it was used also for the ‘box’ marked out on the ground for the discus-thrower to throw from (Philostr. Imagines i. 24. 2).Google Scholar

^{page 32 note 2} This is the one point where I venture to differ from Broneer, who suggests (Illustrated London News, 15 09 1956)Google Scholar that the grooves were used only for setting out the starting-line. The clay filling which he describes must surely have been put on when the line was replaced by the later grooved sill.

^{page 32 note 3} σύριγγες τῶν ὑσπλήγων, Inscr. Délos 1400. 9.Google Scholar

^{page 34 note 1} vi. 20. 10–13.