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52. Lutatius Olymp. 7, 1 B. C. 752. Q. Fabius Pictor Olymp. 8, 1 B. C. 748. Timaeus 38th year before Olymp. 1 B. C. 813. L. Cincius Alimantus Olymp. 12, 4 B. C. 729. M. Porcius Cato 432 years after the Trojan war B. C. 752. Varro Olymp. 6, 2 B. C. 755. Velleius Paterculus Olymp. 6, 2 B. C. 755. Pomponius Atticus Olymp. 6, 3 B. C. 754. But even granting a definite act of foundation (on which see Mommsen, H. of R. vol. i. p. 4), the Olympic register before 672 B. C. is a very uncertain foundatio755. Pomponius Atticus Olymp. 6, 3 B. C. 754. But even granting a definite act of foundation (on which see Mommsen, H. of R. vol. i. p. 4), the Olympic register before 672 B. C. is a very uncertain foundation on which to build. See Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. ii. p. 164 sq. II (6, 2) B. C. 672.Polybius, like Aristodemus of Elis, informs us that the register of the athletic victors at the Olympic games began to be kept from the 27th Olympiad, at which Coroebus of Elis was first registered as conqueror in the stadium; and this Olympiad was regarded as an era by the Greeks from which to calculate dates.From Eusebius. It may be noted that this statement of Polybius is an earlier evidence than