200 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
shows portrait-like features and only those athletes who had won three 
victories had portrait statues, he has identified the original of the A4/k:7- 
biades with the statue of the famous stade-runner Krison of Himera, 
who won his victories at Olympia just after the middle of the fifth 
century B.C., the approximate date of the Vatican copy.! Such an 
identification appears, however, to be too far-fetched to be convincing. 
STATUES OF Boy RUNNERS. 
Probably the statues of boy runners did not differ essentially from 
those of men. ‘That they were sometimes represented in motion 1s 

Fic. 40.—Statue of the Thorn-puller (Spinario). 
Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. 

shown by the footprints on the recovered base of the statue of Sosi- 
krates by an unknown artist. Here the right foot touched the ground 
only with the front portion.? The view has often been expressed that 
the bronze statue in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, known as the 
1In Ols. 83, 84, 85 (=448-440 B. C.): Afr.; Foerster, 239, 245, 248. Krison is mentioned by 
Plato, Protag., 335 E, and de Leg., VIII, 840 A; Aristophanes of Byzantion (apud Zonaras, I, p. 451, 
and apud Hesych., s. v. Tpicwv); Plut., de adul. et amici Discr., 16; and de Tranqu. anim., 12; ete. 
2 Inschr. v. Ol., 157. He won Ol. (?) 80 (=460 B. C.): P. VI, 8.1; Hyde, 71; Foerster, 280. 
