Scholion on Pausanias 5.16.2: victory inscription of Nikegora

Scholion on Pausanias 5.16.2: victory inscription of Nikegora

10th-16th century CE (scholion); inscription undated

Scholion / inscription

Literary source

This scholion has been attributed to the Byzantine Bishop Arethas of Patras (10th century CE) by some and to the Greek humanist Manuel Souliardos (15th-16th century CE) by others: W. Larfeld, Griechische Epigraphik, München 1914, 11, leaves both options open.
Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 267, dates the inscription to the 2nd - 4th century CE, but there is not much to go by.

I myself saw in Patras on the Peloponnese by the ruins of the ancient houses this inscription on the capital of a column:
(This statue of) Nikegora, who won on the racetrack the footrace for maidens, my most sweet sister, I, Nikophilos, have here set up in Parian Marble.

translation by Alexander Meeus for the Cynisca project

εἶδον ἐγὼ ἐν Πάτραις τῆς Πελοποννήσου ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐρειπίοις τῶν παλαιῶν οἰκοδομημάτων ἐπὶ κίονος κεφαλίδος ταύτην τὴν γραφήν·
Νικηγόραν Νικόφιλος νικήσασαν δρόμῳ τὸν τῶν παρθένων δρόμον τῇδ’ ἀνέθηκα λίθου Παρίου, τὴν γλυκυτάτην ἀδελφήν

Friedrich Spiro, ‘Ein Leser des Pausanias’, in Festschrift Johannes Vahlen zum Siebenzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet von Seinen Schülern, Berlin 1900, 129-138.