Note 168 — Chapter II · PRIESTLY KINGS

This was the case at Elis (H. Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecae antiquissimae, No. 112; P. Cauer, op. cit. No. 253; E. S. Roberts, Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, i. No. 292), in Cos (Dittenberger, op. cit. No. 616), in Chios (ib. No. 570), at Mytilene (Cauer, op. cit. Nos. 428, 431), at Cyme (Plutarch, Quaest. Graec. 2), and perhaps in Siphnos (Isocrates, Or. xix. 36). The Kings of Elis may have been the officials called Basilai who sacrificed on the top of Mount Cronius at Olympia at the spring equinox (Pausanias, vi. 20. 1).