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on the Olympic Disc, _Aristotle_ concluded thence, that _Lycurgus_ was the companion of _Iphitus_, in restoring the Olympic games: and this argument might be the ground of the opinion of Chronologers, that _Lycurgus_ and _Iphitus_ were contemporary. But _Iphitus_ did not restore all the Olympic games. He [31] restored indeed the Racing in the first Olympiad, _Coraebus_ being victor. In the 14th Olympiad, the double _stadium_ was added, _Hypaenus_ being victor. And in the 18th Olympiad the _Quinquertium_ and Wrestling were added, _Lampus_ and _Eurybatus_, two _Spartans_, being victors: And the Disc was one of the games of the _Quinquertium_. [32] _Pausanias_ tells us that there were three Discs kept in the Olympic treasury at _Altis_: these therefore having the name of _Lycurgus_ upon them, shew that they were given by him, at the institution of the _Quinquertium_, in the 18th Olympiad. Now _Polydectes_ King of _Sparta_, being slain before the birth of his son _Charillus_ or _Charilaus_, left the Kingdom to _Lycurgus_ his brother; and _Lycurgus_, upon the birth of _Charillus_, became tutor to the child; and after about eight months travelled into _Crete_ and _Asia_, till the child grew up, and brought back with him the poems of _Homer_; and soon after published his laws, suppose upon the 22d or 23d Olympiad; for he was then growing old: and _Terpander_ was a Lyric Poet, and began to flourish about this time; for [33] he imitated _Orpheus_ and _Homer_, and sung _Homer's_ verses and his own, and wrote the laws of _Lycurgus_ in verse, and was victor in the _Pythic_ games in the 26th Olympiad, as above. He was the first who distinguished the modes of Lyric music by several names. _Ardalus_ and _Clonas_ soon after did the like for wind music: and from henceforward, by the encouragement of the _Pythic_ games, now instituted, several eminent Musicians and Poets flourished in _Greece_: as _Archilochus_, _Eumelus Corinthius_, _Polymnestus_, _Thaletas_, _Xenodemus_, _Xenocritus_, _Sacadas_, _Tyrtaeus_, _Tlesilla_, _Rhianus_, _Alcman_, _Arion_, _Stesichorus_, _Mimnermnus_, _Alcaeus_, _Sappho_, _Theognis_, _Anacreon_, _Ibycus_, _Simonides_, _AEschylus_, _Pindar_, by whom the Music and Poetry of the _Greeks_ were brought to perfection. _Lycurgus_, published his laws in the Reign of _Agesilaus_, the son and successor of _Doryagus_, in the Race of the Kings of _Sparta_ descended from _Eurysthenes_. From the Return of the _Heraclides_ i
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