Note 938 — Chapter VI · Argos

A quotation at length is needed to illustrate our authority’s mentality. He explains τίς γὰρ ἱππείοις ἐν ἔντεσσιν μέτρα ἐπέθηκε, Ol. XIII. 27, thus: “by gear he is meaning quarts and bushels owing to their hollowness ... now of this gear for measures he says that the Corinthians were the inventors. But why did he call them equestrian? Because Pheidon, who first struck their measures for the Corinthians, was an Argive, and the poets call Argos equestrian: Eurip. (I.T. 700), ‘when to Hellas and to equestrian Argos thou dost come’.”