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and painted, as it appears from the following 
curious passage oi Pindar \ thus rendered by the 
author's learned friend the Rev. Charles James 
Blowjleld, when corresponding with him upon 
the subject of this truly archaic inscription: 
** The songs have twice proclaimed him victor 
^ in the festivals of the Athenians ; and the pro- 
*' duce of the olive, contained in burned earth, has 
''come to Argos in the variegated circumference 
*' of vases*" 
It is not unlikely that the word A0ENEON 
alludes to this great festival ; called Athencea 
before the title of ra ' KQnvaia, was changed to 
rcL Jlava0y:]iuici. This is said to have happened 
after the time of Theseus or Ericthojiius'; 
although the term ra, 'Adrivulcc occurs in the 
modern Scholiast on Aristophanes. According 
to Mr. Blomfield, the word in question is the 
old genitive, from ' A^nvui \ Yet it must be 
(1) Vid-iSTm. X. 67. 
(2) Where see the Scholiast. 
(3) Ister'm Harpocrat. v. Tlayaff^vaia, et Pausanias vili. 2. See 3/tMr- 
sius Panatk. p. 2. et Sckol. Platan, p. 39, 
(4) Horn. Od. y. 278. Aristoph. Nub. 400. {See Parson's Coll. of 
the MS. Harl, p. 14.) y.oC)iin ix^tv 'AJriiitit. Euphoria ap. Hermog. 
T. I. p. 248. uT^ia 2>t^sf 'A^ritut. MS. Caio Gonv. 'ASn^u'iui, i. e. 'A/n>i**'> 
which is tl-.e true reading. Note by Mr. Blomjitld. 
