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[2] During their term of office the Pisans, renewing the ancient prestige1 of their country and resorting to mythical, antiquarian proofs, asserted that the honour of holding the Olympian festival was their prerogative. And judging that they had now a suitable occasion for claiming the games, they formed an alliance with the Arcadians, who were enemies of the Eleians. With them as supporters they took the field against the Eleians who were in the act of holding the games.

1 For the struggle over the presidency of the Olympian games see P.-W. Realencyclopädie, 17.2531-2536. Xenophon recounts this strife in Xen. Hell. 7.4.28-35. Pausanias notes the omission of the 104th Olympiad from the record of the Eleians in Paus. 6.4.2, 8.3, 22.3, in the last passage using the term ἀνολυμπιάς. For the relations of Elis and Arcadia see Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.97-99.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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