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Ὀλυμπ-ία (sc. χώρα), ἡ,
A.Olympia, district round Pisa and the Elean Olympus, where the Olympic games were held, Hdt.2.160, 5.22, etc. ; or Pisa itself, Pi.O.1.7, etc. :—also Οὐλυμπία , ib.3.15. Adv. Ὀλυμπία_σι , at Olympia, IG12.606, Ar.V.1382, Lys.1131, Th.1.143, And.4.25, Pl.Ap.36d, D.21.145, etc. :—also Ὀλυμπίαζε , to Olympia, Th.3.8, And 1.132,4.26, Thphr.Lap.16 ; Dor. Ὀλυμπιάνδις Theognost. Can.163 ; Ὀλυμπία_θεν , from Olympia, St.Byz.
II. Ὀλύμπια (sc. ἱερά), τά, the Olympic games, or games in honour of Olympian Zeus, Hdt.1.59, etc. : mostly without the Art., “Ὀλύμπια ἄγειν” Id.8.26 ; Ὀ. ἀναραιρηκώς having won at the Olympic games, Id.6.36 ; Ὀ. νικᾶν (v. “νικάω” 1.1) ; “Ὀ. δραμεῖν στάδιον” Plu.2.179d : also with the Art., “ποιεῖν τὰ Ὀ.” X.HG7.4.28 ; “στέφεσθαι τὰ Ὀ.” Luc.Merc.Cond. 13.
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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