...sium. They enter before sunrise to match the runners, and at midday for the pentathlum and for such contests as are called heavy. The market-place of Elis is not after the fashion of the cities of Ionia and of the Greek cities near Ionia; it is built in the older manner, with porticoes separated from each other and with streets through them. The modern name of the market-place is Hippodromus, and t...