THE STATUE OF THE RUNNER LADAS. 197 
To these verses are added the following, which Benndorf thinks 
belonged to another epigram on the same statue: 
TAHpHS éATLOos EoTiv, akpots 6 érl xEtNeow acOua 
éudaiver KolAwy évdobev &k Naryovwy. 
Tnonoer TAXA XaNKos El TTEdos, OVE KabEEEL 
a Baow + w Téxvyn TVEbMaATOS WKUTEpa.! 
Professor Ernest Gardner translates the two parts of the second 
epigram as follows: 
“Like as thou wast in life, Ladas, ea oe forth thy panting soul,? 
on tip-toe, with every sinew at full strain, such hath Myron wrought 
thee in bronze, stamping on thy whole body thy eagerness for the 
victor’s crown of Pisa.” 
“He is filled with hope, and you may see the breath caught on his 
lips from deep within his flanks; surely the bronze will leave its ped- 
estal and leap to the crown. Such art is swifter than the wind.’’ 
Even if part of the epigram is rhetorical, we can not doubt that Ladas 
was represented in the final spurt just before he arrived at the goal. 
His eagerness was not confined to the face—though the panting breath 
could have been indicated by half opened lips, but was visible in the 
whole body.* Whereas the girl runner of the Vatican (PI. 2) is repre- 
sented at the beginning of the race, Myron’s statue represented Ladas 
at the end of it. Probably the victor was represented with his weight 
thrown on the advanced foot and with the arms close to the sides and 
bent at the elbows—a treatment which would have been easy for the 
sculptor of the Diskobolos. Mahler tried to identify the statue with 
one of the Naples group of so-called runners (Fig. 51). However, as 
we shall see, these probably represent wrestlers, and not runners, and 
neither of them shows any such tension as we should expect from the 
description of the statue of Ladas. ‘Though Foerster believes that the 
statue of Ladas stood in Olympia, in honor of his victory in the long 
race there,° we can not say definitely where it was.’ 
14, Pl., 1V,54. Benndorf corrects the Mss. reading of the last half ofl. 2 as vedpaq radels dvuxe; 
others read the whole line: @uvév | = dpduor] éx’ &kporarw oxaumare Gels Svvxa. Onthe two epigrams, 
see Studniczka, Myron’s Ladas, Ber. saechs. Gesellsch. d. Wiss., Philolog.-histor. Cl., 52, 1900, 
pp. 329 f. (especially pp. 333 f.). 
2Reading guaGv ..... Ouuov for gebywv. .... Qduor, “flying from wind-footed Thymos,” 
of Jacobs. On possible readings, see Studniczka, /. c., pp. 337 f. 
3Sculpt., p. 69. 
4See Kalkmann, op. cit., pp. 77-8; Reisch, p. 44; cf. Gercke, Jb., VIII, 1893, p. 115, on the 
meaning of the words zvedua and agua. 
5Polyklet u. s. Sch., p. 17; von Mach, no. 289; B. B., 354. 
6No. 249, 249a; he fixes his victory in Ol. (7?) 85 (=440 B. C.), because of the late dating of 
Myron by Pliny, H. N., XXXIV, 49 (floruit Ol. 90 =420 B. C.: cf. Brunn, I, 142 f.); Furtwaengler 
dated his activity within the first half of the fifth century B. C.: Mp., p. 182; Robert provisionally 
dates the victory of Ladas in Ol. (?) 76 (=476 B. C.), though he finds that Ols. 80 and 81 (=460 and 
456 B. C.) are possible: see O. S., p.184; here he dates the sculptor (?) 476-444 B. C. 
Cf. infra., Ch. VIII, p. 365, n. 1. 
