Gymnicum Agonem in Eleusine institutum innuunt mutila adhuc Mar∣mora, item obliterato anno, regnante Athenis eodem Pandione. Tem∣plum in Eleusine aedificatum in Eusebiano Chronico legitur anno regni Pan∣dionis tertio, juxta Pontaci Editionem, quinto juxta Scaligeranam. Tam∣etsi vero aliud erant Mysteria Eleusinia, aliud certamina sive Ludicra Eleu∣sinia, videntur tamen fuisse affinia & loco & tempore: quemadmodum O∣lympica Sacrificia & certamina, atque id genus alia. De Olympicis vero lo∣cum insignem exhibent Adversaria nostra è Thucydidis libro 5, & anno Belli Peloponnesiaci duodecimo, his verbis, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Et paulo post, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. "Illa aestate celebrata sunt Olympia quibus An∣drosthenes Arcas Pancratiam vicit primo. Lacedaemonii autem ab Elêis Templo Olympico arcebantur, ne sacrificarent, neve certarent." Qui pro∣inde, quandoquidem arcerentur Templi Olympici sacrificio pariter ac cer∣taminibus, domi sacrificabant, nimirum Jovi Olympio. Atqui, ut dictum, aliud sane erant sacrificia, aliud ludicra sive certamina: adeoque aliud erant Mysteria proprie dicta, aliud autem communiter dicta sacrificia: haec fere illis posterius addita, majoris pompae & celebritatis gratiâ. Quum itaque Templum Eleusine aedificatum sit tertio vel quinto anno regni Pandionis ju∣nioris, quo tempore ex Acesidoro & Androtione antiquis Autoribus apud Scholiasten Sophoclis in Oedipum Coloneum, intelligitur Mysteria Eleusi∣nia in absolutam formam redacta ab Eumolpo tertio Musaei Poetae filio, Temploque& sacrificiis solennibus ornata esse, quae à primo Eumolpo Thrace, ejus atavo primum instituta fuerant rudiore quodam ritu; verisi∣simile
Marmora Oxoniensia ex Arundellianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata recensuit & perpetuo commentario explicavit Humphridus Prideaux ... ; appositis ad eorum nonnulla Seldeni & Lydiati annotationibus accessit Sertorii Ursati Patavini De notis Romanorum commentarius.
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- Marmora Oxoniensia ex Arundellianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata recensuit & perpetuo commentario explicavit Humphridus Prideaux ... ; appositis ad eorum nonnulla Seldeni & Lydiati annotationibus accessit Sertorii Ursati Patavini De notis Romanorum commentarius.
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- Arundel marbles.
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"Marmora Oxoniensia ex Arundellianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata recensuit & perpetuo commentario explicavit Humphridus Prideaux ... ; appositis ad eorum nonnulla Seldeni & Lydiati annotationibus accessit Sertorii Ursati Patavini De notis Romanorum commentarius." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53812.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.
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est intra quadriennium, vel quinquennium postea ludicris certaminibus etiam eadem fuisse illustrata, circiter decimum annum Pandionis, ac 1352 ante Evangelium. Haec autem Eleusinia, & antiquitate, & celebritate pro∣xime accedebant ad Panathenaica: quanquam ab iis distincta, ut ex Aristide Oratore, Helladio in Chrestomathia, Pindari Scholiaste in septimam Oden O∣lympionicarum, aliisque colligitur.