1The athletes, sir, think that the rewards which you established for the iselastic contests are owed to them from the very day on which they were crowned; 1for it makes no difference, they say, when they made their entry into their native city, but when they won the contest from which they are entitled to make that entry. 1I, on the other hand, point to the words 'by the name of iselastic', and so I strongly doubt whether the time to be considered is not rather that at which they 'drove in'. 2The same men are claiming allowances for that contest which was made iselastic by you, although they won before it was made so.
2For they say it is consistent that, just as nothing is given them for those contests which ceased to be iselastic after they had won, so something should be given for those which began to be. 3Here too I am in no small doubt, for fear that account may be taken retrospectively of anyone, and that something may be given which was not owed at the time when they won. 3I ask you, therefore, to deign to resolve my doubt, that is, to interpret your own favours yourself.