1. Olympia was in the district of Elis.

2. This paragraph is all a single sentence in the Greek, typically rhetorical in the periodic style. See p. 232 n. 6 for Hippias as an orator. Gorgias too (Meno 700-c, Gorgias 447c–448a) claimed to answer any question that was put to him; Protagoras 315c is further evidence for Hippias’ doing this.