Note 266 — I.—SHORTER FRAGMENTS
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
: Dionysius Hal. (1, 74) quotes this statement of Polybius with the remark that it is founded on a single tablet in the custody of the Pontifices. Various calculations as to the date were:—
Eratosthenes followed by Olymp. 7, 1 B.C. 752.
Apollodorus
Nepos
Dionysius
Lutatius
Q. Fabius Pictor Olymp. 8, 1 B.C. 748.
Timaeus 38th year before Olymp. 1 B.C. 813.
L. Cincius Alimantus Olymp. 12, 4 B.C. 729.
M. Porcius Cato 432 years after the Trojan war. B.C. 752.
Varro Olymp. 6, 2 B.C. 755.
Velleius Paterculus
Pomponius Atticus Olymp. 6, 3 B.C. 754.
But even granting a definite act of foundation (on which see Mommsen, H. of R. vol. i. p. 4), the Olympic register before 672 B.C. is a very uncertain foundation on which to build. See Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. ii. p. 164 sq.