statue of this victor in the Old Gymnasion at Antikyra (X, 36.9). G.
Hirschfeld[2513] had objected to the statement of Pausanias, in the
passage cited, “that this was the only Olympiad omitted in the Elean
register,” because of its inconsistency with other passages which
state that in the 8th Olympiad,[2514] in the 34th,[2515] and in the
104th,[2516] the games were celebrated by intruders, and not by the
Eleans, and hence these Olympiads were regarded as invalid and were not
entered in the Elean registers. However, as Frazer points out,[2517]
the case with Ol. 211 was different. It was doubtless celebrated by
the Eleans themselves and its validity was not questioned, but either
it was never entered in the register, or, if entered, was later struck
out. Africanus (_cf._ Philostratos)[2518] says that the celebration
of this Olympiad, which should have fallen 65 A. D., was deferred two
years to favor Nero, who in 67 A. D. received prizes in six events,
including the ten-horse chariot-race.[2519] The Eleans, later being
ashamed of thus favoring the tyrant, probably removed Ol. 211 from the
register after his death. It may be that for the same reason statues
of victors of that Olympiad were not set up in the Altis, which would
explain why that of Xenodamos was set up in his native city, where
Pausanias saw it. Not finding his name in the Elean register, Pausanias
would reason that this victory fell in the disgraced Ol. 211.[2520]
28a. Titos Phlabios Artemidoros, son of Artemidoros, of Adana in
Kilikia.[2521] The inscribed marble tablet from the base of the statue
which this victor erected in Naples in honor of his father Artemidoros,
son of Athenodoros, is preserved. It contains a list of his own many
victories in παγκράτιον and πάλη in games held in Greece, Italy, Asia
Minor, and Egypt. Though the statue was erected to his father, the long
inscription shows that it was intended quite as much to celebrate his
own athletic prowess.[2522]