in this contest alone does the poet allow sympathies to be
seriously disappointed, as if in rebuke for their engagement
about so coarse a conflict--the victory being given, with a
certain contemptuousness, to a boaster and a bully.

Pausanias found the statue of Diagoras at Olympia, by a
leading sculptor, Callicles of Megara, and with it an entire
group of victors all of his family. Pindar composed for him
the beautiful seventh Olympic Ode, which was afterwards
seen set up in letters of gold in the temple of Athene at
Lindus in Rhodes.

Although at present not only popularly, but by Herodotus
as well as by Pindar, the cultured perfection of the bodily
frame could be taken as presumption of all the virtues and
all refinement, voices had already been raised in Greece--
that of Xenophanes particularly -- against the excessive
glorification of athletic prowess. Training became, as on the
modern race-course, too much valued for the sake of the par-
ticular contest to have regard to any purpose beyond, and the
primary justification of the system fell out of view and was
frustrate. Euripides, who was of such age as to have been
born at Salamis sixteen years before our date, on the very day
of the battle in which Aeschylus was a warrior, and for which
Sophocles, as a beautiful youth, sang the Pæan to the lyre,
was soon to denounce the pride of the athlete in terms as sour
and severe as those which were echoed afterwards by philoso-
phers, statesmen, and ¹ physicians.

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