so called from Nemea, a village between the cities of Cleone and Philus, where they were celebrated every third year. The exercises were chariot-races, and all the parts of the Pentathlon. These games were instituted in memory of Opheltes or Archemorus the son of Euphletes and Creusa, who was nursed by Hypsipyle; who leaving him in a meadow while she went to show the besiegers of Thebes a fountain, at her return found him dead, and a serpent twined about his neck; whence the fountain, before called Langia, was named Archemorus; and the captains, to comfort Hypsipyle, instituted these games. Others ascribe their institution to Hercules, after his victory over the Nemean lion. Others allow, that they were instituted first in honour of Archemorus; but interrupted, and revived again by Hercules. The victors were crowned with parsley, an herb used at funerals, and feigned to have sprung from Archemorus's blood. The Argives presided at these games.