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Ὀλυμπ-ιάς , άδος, ἡ, = fem. of Ὀλύμπιος,
A.Olympian, epith. of the Muses, Il.2.491, h.Merc.450, Hes.Th.25, 52 : then, generally, dweller on Olympus, goddess, Id.Fr.142.2 ; Ὀ. βασιλείης, of the Argive Hera, Phoronis 4 ; “Ὀ. Χάριτες” Ar.Av.782 ; ἤ τις Ὀλυμπιάδων θεᾶν, of the nymphs of the Mysian Olympus, S.Aj. 881 (lyr.).
2. Ὀ. ἐλαῖαι olive-crowns of the Olympic games, Pi.N.1.17.
II. as Subst.,
1. the Olympic games, Hdt.7.206 ; “τῇ Ὀ. νικᾶν” Id.6.103 ; “τὸ κλέος . . τᾶν Ὀλυμπιάδων” Pi.O.1.94, cf.2.3, al.
2. (sc. νίκη) a victory at Olympia, “τοῖσι Λακεδαιμονίοισι Ὀλυμπιάδα προσέβαλε” the glory of an Olympic victory, Hdt.6.70 ; Ὀλυμπιάδα ἀνελέσθαι win a victory in the Olympic games, ib.103, cf. 125 ; “νικᾶν Ὀ.” Id.9.33, cf. Simon.152 ; later, any victory or triumph, Philostr.VA4.44.
3. an Olympiad, i.e. the space of four years between the celebrations of the Olympic games, Timae.21, cf. SIG557.15 (iii B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 782
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.103
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.206
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.33
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.70
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 25
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 52
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.491
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 450
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 881
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 4.44
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