Note 484 — Chapter XIII · THE FOOT-RACE
Reading edition
The passages relating to the ὕσπληξ are collected by me in J.H.S. xxiii. p. 263. To these may be added, Bekker, Anecd. 220, 31 βαλβίς. Ξῦλα δύο τῶν δρομέων ἀφ’ ὧν σχοινίον τί διατέταται, ὃ καλεῖται βαλβίς, ἵνα ἐνεῦθεν ἐκδράμωσιν οἱ ἀγωνιζόμενοι; Fränckel, Antiq. Pergam. viii. 1, p. 8, 10, epigram on the victory of Attalus in the chariot-race; Schol. to Aristoph. Eq. 1159 βαλβίς· ἡ ὑπὸ τὴν ὕσπληγα γενομένη γράμμη.