Note 223 — Chapter VII · THE DECLINE OF ATHLETICS, 338-146 B.C.
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Ol. Ins. 276, 277. Another such courier was Deinosthenes of Sparta, who won the foot-race in Ol. 116, and set up beside his statue a pillar giving the distance from Olympia to Sparta as 630 stades, and from Sparta to the next pillar (at Amyclae) as 30 stades. Paus. vi. 16, 8; Ol. Ins. 171.