Grecian Antiquities Or An Account of the Public And Private Life of the Greeks
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I. V. 6. Pindar. Olymp. Od. \ . Stroph. A, v. 1 6 . 1 7. ) Statues \vere creeled to them at Olympia, in the wood con- fecrated to Jupiter; (Paufan. Eliac. 10. ) Thefe foleran games not only drew together all Greece, (Lucian de Gymn* p. 274. Dlodor. Sic. 4. *. 55. ) but alfo foreign nations, from the extremi- ties of Egypt, from Lybia, Sicily, and other coun- tries; (Paufan. Eliac. 10. Pin (Jar. Olymp. Od. 6, Epod. T. V. 14. ) Hence the name, ILmyucu:, given to thefe games. OF THE PYTHIAN GAMES.... The Pythian games were celebrated near Delphi ; (Pindar. Pyth. Od. 6. ) and are fuppofed to have been inftituted, either by Amphiflyon, the fon ot Deucalion, or by the council of Amphiclyones. Others refer them to Agamemnon; (Phavorinits. Etymol. AuR. ) to Diomedes ; (Paufan. Corinth. ) or to Apollo, when he had overcome Python ; (Ovid. Met. tft GRECIAN ANITQUITIES: Met. I. ) They were at firfl celebrated once iri nine years* called sv^xni^ ; but afterwards, every fifth year; (Plutarch. Gr
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