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this statue could not have been produced before 

 the eighty-sixth or eighty-seventh Olympiad. 

 One of the figures sculptured on the basis of the 

 throne on which Jupiter sat, was supposed to bear 

 a striking resemblance to Pantarcas, a young man 

 who was greatly admired by Phidias. He was 

 represented in the act of binding round his head 

 the diadem, usually worn by a victor in the public 

 games. Now Pantarcas, according to Pausanias, 

 obtained a prize in the eighty-sixth Olympiad. 

 Hence Corsini infers that the diadem has a refer- 

 ence to this victory, and that the entire statue 

 was executed in the eighty-sixth Olympiad. The 

 only passage, as far as I can discover, which 

 affords an indication where the solution of this 

 diflSculty can be found, occurs in Pausanias, who 

 says, " that the temple at Olympia, and the statue 

 of Jupiter, were erected in honour of that deity 

 out of the spoils taken in war, from the natives 

 of Pisa and its vicinity, by the citizens of Elis, 

 who wasted their country, and reduced them to 

 obedience."* 



* To those who depend upon the authenticity of all the 

 scandalous chronicles of antiquity, it would be useless to point 

 out the insufficiency of a conclusion deduced from a real or 

 imaginary resemblance, in a case like this. 



