[Footnote 9: Isocrates (in Panegyrico, tom. i. p. 116, 117,
edit. Battie, Cantab. 1729) claims for his native Athens the
glory of first instituting and recommending ****(Greek) .
The example of the Panathenaea was imitated at Delphi; but
the Olympic games were ignorant of a musical crown, till it
was extorted by the vain tyranny of Nero, (Sueton. in
Nerone, c. 23; Philostrat. apud Casaubon ad locum; Dion
Cassius, or Xiphilin, l. lxiii. p. 1032, 1041. Potter's
Greek Antiquities, vol. i. p. 445, 450.)]