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ἠρίστευσαν Ἀθηναῖοι, ‘the Athenians obtained the meed of valour.’ Cp. 8. 17 supra for the formula.
Ἑρμόλυκος ὁ Εὐθοίνου. The father's name is corrupt in the best MSS.; cp. App. Crit. εὐθύνου looks like a correction of εὐθόνου. Euthynos is a commoner name at Athens than ‘Euthoinos,’ which is, however, found on Inscripp. ‘Hermolykos’ is mentioned again as pankratiast with a statue on the Akropolis (Pausan. 1. 23. 10). Whether this Hermolykos son of Euthoinos was any relation to Hermolykos son of Diitrephes, who dedicated a statue of his father (cp. Pausanias 1. 23. 3), apparently the general Diitrephes well known from Thucydides (7. 29. 1, 8. 64. 1), is a much debated question; cp. Frazei, Pausanias ii. 275 f., 289; Hitzig-Bluemner, Pausanias (1896), notes ad ll.c. παγκράτιον ἐπασκήσας, ‘who (had) practised (successfully? ἐπι-) as a pankratiast.’ The pankration, a combination of boxing (πυγμή) and wrestling (πάλη), was first introduced at Olympia in 648 B.C., Ol. 33, Pausan. 5. 8. 8; cp. Clinton, Fasti i. p. 198; and victories in the pankration are celebrated in several of Pindar's Epinikia: e.g. Nem. 2, 3, 5, Isth. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
κατέλαβε ὕστερον τούτων: for the verb cp. cc. 93, 104 supra, ‘overtook.’ The general date places the event in the Pentekontaëteris, but unfortunately without a precise year. The war between ‘the Athenians’ and the Karystians is, however, presumably that one commemorated by Thuc. 1. 98. 3 about 472 B.C.; cp. Busolt, Gr. G. iii. (1897) 140.
ἐν Κύρνῳ: this Kyrnos in Euboia, in the territory of Karystos, is not elsewhere mentioned. The nominal coincidence with the island Corsica (cp. 7. 165 supra) was not perhaps accidental. On Karystos cp. 8. 121 supra. On Geraistos, 8. 7 supra.
Κορίνθιοι ... Τροιζήνιοι ... Σικυώνιοι: the order of merit differs slightly from their order in battle-array c. 102 supra, but all contingents on the left wing obtained prizes. The right (Lakedaimontans, etc.) was quite left in the shade. This story is hardly of Spartan origin.
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