Note 631 — Chapter XVII · THE PENTATHLON

For a fuller treatment of this point vide J.H.S. xxiii. p. 63, and Jüthner, Philostratus, p. 207. The passage quoted by me from Philostratus on p. 65 n. 47, γυμνάζεταί τι τῶν τριῶν, appears to be corrupt and cannot be used as evidence for speaking of τριαγμός as applied to the three events of the pentathlon which secured victory, or the three events peculiar to the pentathlon, and Jüthner seems to me correct in his criticism that this use of the word is “mehr als unsicher.”