Olympia. Three ᾿Ελλανοδίκαι were the
judges. Two of them awarded the victory
to Eupolemus; but the third, to Leon,
an Ambraciot: and ‘it was said’ that
Leon, going before the ΟἸγτηρίς Council
(βουλή), had got a fine inflicted (χρημάτων
καταδικάσαιτο) on each of the two judges
who had voted against him. The Eleans,
as presidents at Olympia, were sometimes
charged with favouring their countrymen:
Plut. Quaest. Platon. 2’Helous τῶν σοφῶν
εἶπέ τις βελτίους ἂν εἶναι τῶν ᾿Ολυμπίων
ἀγωνοθέτας εἰ μηδὲ εἷς ᾿Ηλείων ἦν ἀγω-
γιστής. (Cp. also Diodorus 1. 95.) It is
easy, then, to understand why our poet
may have wished to make it clear that he
did not impute fraud.
32 καλλιχόρῳ: ν. 106n. Here the
idea of enclosure contained in χορός
serves to suggest the scenes of the
contests at Olympia.
33 ποικίλαις, in a bad sense; cp.
Pind. O. 1. 29, NV. v. ,8.--πέλασσεν:
cp. 27). 5. 766 ὀδύνῃσι πελάζειν : Aesch.
P. V. 185 δεσμοῖς... πελάσας.
36 πολύπλαγκτοι, usu. ‘much wander-
ing’; here ‘often erring,’ as in Zpegr. Gr.
594. 4 (4th cent. A.D.?) βροτῶν πολυ-
πλάγκτοισιν πραπίδεσσιν. Cp. Eur. Hipp.
240 παρεπλάγχθην γνώμας ἀγαθᾶς.
36 ἄμερσαν, Doric for ἥμερσαν, like
Gyero for ἤγετο in XIX. 4: the first syll.
of the verse should be long (cp. 78).
—dpépdw takes a double acc. in Hom.
hymn. V. 312 τιμὴν |.. ἥμερσεν ᾽᾿Ολύμπια
δώματ᾽ ἔχοντας: but not elsewhere a
simple acc. (instead of gen.) denoting
that which is taken away.
37—39 νῦν 8° “Apres. So far as
appears, it is simply as the goddess of


36 πολύτλαγκοι MS.: corr. K.
39 ἡμέρα Blass: duépa Palmer.
36 ἄμερσαν


Metapontion (116) that she favours him.
