Note 625 — Chapter XVII · THE PENTATHLON
Reading edition
The following are the orders given in the various lists:—
1. Simonides jump, race, diskos, javelin, wrestling.
2. Epigram quoted by Eustathius jump, diskos, javelin, race, wrestling.
3. Schol. Pind. Isthm. i. 26
4. Schol. Soph. El. 631
5. Artemidorus, Oneirocrit. i. 55 race, diskos, jump, javelin, wrestling.
6. Schol. Plato, Amat. 135 E race, diskos, jump, javelin, wrestling.
(reversed)
7. Phil. Gym. 3 (reversed) race, jump, javelin, diskos, wrestling.
8. Schol. Aristid. Pan. p. 112 race, wrestling, diskos, javelin, jump.
9. Epigram Anth. Pal. xi. 84 wrestling, race, diskos, jump, javelin.
In 6 and 7 the order of the text is obviously reversed, and I have therefore reversed again. No. 9 is of very little value and may be disregarded.