A dictionary of Greek and Roman . had also to pro-vide for the training of therunners, which was of noslight consequence, for therace was evidently a se-vere one (compare Aris-toph. Vesp. 1203, ), with other ex-penses, which on the wholewere very heavy, so that Isaeus (de Philoct. Haered. p. 62. 20) classesthis office with the x°P0yia and Tpirjpapxici, andreckons that it had cost him 12 minae. The dis-charge of this office was called yvixvaaiapx^ivXafxirddL (Isaeus, I. <?.), or iv reus Xajxirdcn yvptva-(riapx^aOai (Xen. de Vectig. iv. 52). The victo-rious gymnasiarch p
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . had also to pro-vide for the training of therunners, which was of noslight consequence, for therace was evidently a se-vere one (compare Aris-toph. Vesp. 1203, ), with other ex-penses, which on the wholewere very heavy, so that Isaeus (de Philoct. Haered. p. 62. 20) classesthis office with the x°P0yia and Tpirjpapxici, andreckons that it had cost him 12 minae. The dis-charge of this office was called yvixvaaiapx^ivXafxirddL (Isaeus, I. <?.), or iv reus Xajxirdcn yvptva-(riapx^aOai (Xen. de Vectig. iv. 52). The victo-rious gymnasiarch presented his Aafxirds as a votiveoffering (, Bockh, Inscr. No. 243, 250). As to the manner of the \$it)<popia, thereare some things difficult to understand. The casestands thus. We have two accounts, which seemcontradictory. — First, it is represented as a course,in which a Aafxirds was carried from one point to * Probably the greater Panathenaea. (Bockh,ubi supr.) f The ceremony at the Apaturia was different.[Apatujria.]. LAMPADEPHORIA. another by a chain of runners, each of whomformed a successive link. The first, after runninga certain distance, handed it to the second, thesecond in like manner to the third, and so on, tillit reached the point proposed. Hence the game isused by Herodotus (viii. 98) as a comparisonwhereby to illustrate the Persian ayyaprjiov, byPlato (Leg. p. 776, b.) as a living image of suc-cessive generations of men, as also in the. well-known line of Lucretius (ii. 77.) Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.(Compare also Auctor, ad Herenn. iv. 46.) Andit is said that the art consisted in the several run-ners carrying the torch unextinguished throughtheir respective distances, those who let it go outlosing all share of honour. Now, if this were all,such explanation might content us. But, secondly,we are plainly told that it was an aywv, the run-ners are said (T6ai (Plat. Rep. I. c.) ; some aresaid to have won (vinav KajXTraSi,
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