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For Farrington's date range, here followed, cf. Farrington (2012), p. 129-30 note 336, based around Moretti (1957), no. 584 and 589 firmly dating Kleitomachos Olympic victories to 216 and 212 B.C. The Isthmian victories are the only ones mentioned in both Pausanias and the epigram, which he won on the same day and which are estimated by Farrington to have been won between 220 and 216 B.C. - PK
The date of the Olympic victory for pugme (212 BC) has been cast into doubt by C Wunderer in Philologus N. F., 11 (1898), pp. 1-7; 649-651 (followed by F. W. Walbank, Class Quart. 37 (1943), p. 1; L. Robert.. Hellenica, XI-XII, Paris (1960). p. 348, no. 6. Cf. Rev. Philol., 93 (1967), p. 25 ff.), who would like to move it towards 204 BC. The foundation of the hypothesis is very fragile: among other things we should suppose a date error in Pausanias (who explicitly speaks of 212), and the identification of Kleitomachos with famous retired boxer from the National Roman Museum (who Wunderer believed to be from 200-190 BC, while he is at least a century later).
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