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[621] αὔτως, ‘as it is,’ without a contest. The following enumeration seems to indicate that the Epic pentathlon consisted of the chariot-race, foot-race, boxing, wrestling, and javelin-casting; and this list appears again in 634-38. In the Phaiakian games (Od. 8.103） leaping is substituted for the last, and the chariotrace does not appear. In historical times its place was of course taken by the diskos, and even here it is evidently put on a different and higher level from the contests of bodily strength.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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