38 EARLY GREEK GAMES AND PRIZES. 
makes a sweeping generalization about monuments at Athens and 
Olympia.’ He’ says that all objects on the Akropolis—including 
statues— avabnuara or votive offerings, while some of those at 
Olympia were dedicated to the god, but that the statues of athletes 
were mere prizes of victory. In another passage? also, in distin- 
guishing the various sorts of monuments at Olympia, he expressly 
says that the statues of athletes were not devoted to Zeus, but were 
marks of honor (év d@\ov \oyw) bestowed on the victors. These 
statements of the Periegete have given rise to a good deal of fruitless 
discussion. Furtwaengler follows Pausanias in saying that the right 
of setting up statues was ein wesentlicher Theil des Siegespreises.* 
That such erections at Olympia were considered as high honors is 
implied by the wording of many of the inscriptions which have 
been recovered from the bases of the statues. Thus on that of the 
boxer Euthymos are the words eixova 6’ éorynoev tHvde Bporots egopay." 
Furtwaengler, therefore, has promulgated the theory that the victor 
statues at Olympia were in no sense votive, though they were con- 
sidered to be the property of the god in whose grove they stood. He 
cites the fact that the inscribed bases of such monuments dewn to the 
first century B.C., with the exception of a few. metrical epigrams, 
make no mention of dedications, and that in these exceptions the 
word aveOnke was added for metrical reasons,’ while during the same 
centuries regular votive offerings (ava0juara) invariably have the 
word avéOnxe.© One inscription, that from the base of the statue 
of Euthymos of Lokroi, is both metrical and in prose;'’ but it seems 
to have been changed later in two places, the second line origi- 
nally ending in a pentameter, and the third ne with avéOnxe, being 
added afterwards.’ Also the prose inscription’ referred by Roehl to the 

EV re liale 2225.15 34. M., V, 1880, p. 29. 
4Inschr. v. Ol., 144; here in the renewed inscription occurs also the word évé@nxev; Hyde, 56; 
Foerster, 185, 195, 207. 
5L.c., p. 31, n. 1; here he gives a list of the metrical exceptions of the fifth century B. C.; from 
inscriptions, that of Aineas, 4d. Z., XX XV, 1877, p. 38, no. 86; Foerster, 244 (an inscription not 
appearing in Inschr.v. Ol.), and Tellon, 4. Z., ibid., p. 190, no. 91, and XXXVIII, 1880, p. 70 
(=Inschr. v. Ol., 147-8); from Pausanias, that of Kleosthenes (wrongly Kleisthenes), VI, 10.6, 
and Damarchos, VI, 8.2. The list should be corrected as follows. From inscriptions: Tellon, boy 
boxer of Ol. 77 (=472 B. C.): Oxy. Pap.; P., VI, 10.9; Inschr. v. Ol., 147-8; Hyde, 102; Foerster, 
237; Kyniskos, boy boxer of Ol. (?) 80 (=460 B. C.): P., VI, 4.11; Inschr. v. OL, 149; Hyde, 
45; Foerster, 255; Charmides, boy boxer of Ol. (?) 79 (= 464 B. Carthacy ee Tanne v. Ol., 
156 (renewed); Hyde, 58; Foerster, 763 (undated); . . . krates, boy runner, Ol. (?) 93 ( = 408 
B. C.): Inschr. v. Ol., 157; Foerster, 280. From Pansat Damarchos, boxer, who won before 
Ol. 75 (=480 B. C.) or after Ol. 83 (=448 B. C.): VI, 8.2; Hyde, 74 and p. 38; Foerster, 452. 
6F. g., the Cretan Philonides, courier of Alexander the Great, dedicated his portrait statue to the 
god: Inschr. v. Ol., 276; P., VI, 16.5; Hyde, 154 a. ™Inschr. v. OL., 144. 
8So Didenhoan and Bircracneies (Lies pes0, nee. following Roehl, J. G. 4. on no. 388; Roehl 
believed that originally the word Lokroi or ae name of the victor’s father apieated as the pone 
tor, and later, because the victor wished to remove the expense from his city or because his father 
died, Euthymos himself restored it; see discussion of Dittenberger, Inschr. v. Ol., pp. 249-520. 
The original inscription has éoryge. 
9Inschr. v. Ol., 264; Roehl, J. G. 4., 589. 
