Description of Greece

Its more ancient name was Paleia, but the Ionians changed this to its modern name while they still occupied the city; I am uncertain whether they named it after Dyme, a native woman, or after Dymas, the son of Aegimius. But nobody is likely to be led into a fallacy by the inscription on the statue of Oebotas at Olympia. Oebotas was a man of Dyme, who won the foot-race at the sixth Festival[*](756 B.C.) and was honored, because of a Delphic oracle, with a statue erected in the eightieth Olympiad[*](460-457 B.C.). On it is an inscription which says:—