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[2] The reason why at Olympia the victor receives a crown of wild-olive I have already explained in my account of Elis;1 why at Delphi the crown is of bay I shall make plain later.2 At the Isthmus the pine, and at Nemea celery became the prize to commemorate the sufferings of Palaemon and Archemorus. At most games, however, is given a crown of palm, and at all a palm is placed in the right hand of the victor.

1 See Paus. 5.7.7.

2 See Paus. 10.7.8.

Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

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