OLY 
Another reward conferred upon thefe con- 
querors was the honour of the firft feat at all sablic {pec- 
tacles ; ai they had prefents, and a yearly allowance 
of provifions. The laft privilege we fhall mention was an 
immunity fon all civil offices, which ie to have been 
g infcriptions, and even altars, 
Heed i facrifices were offered to them as to heroes or 
dem 
aa brated inftitution of the Olympic games main- 
iad is reputation for a long period, and adtually fu aes 
an emulation and ardour to excel in all the various exercifes 
which it comprehended, that there was fearcely a town of 
any other countries, in 
try. e gym- 
rcifes c games econfifted, 
contr buted to a ihe ftrength and agility of the body, 
to rend mi dextrous and valiant in war, to furnifh 
them idle, to induce habits of fobriety and temperance, 
(fee Hor. Art. Poet. v. 412, and alfo 1 Corinth. ix. 25. 
vice and pe pee to roufe into exercife 
mpic 
ames,” r the mufical 
contefts at the las is games, fee GAMEs. 
Oxympic Fire. e Fire. 
OLYMPICI, Gu, the ig of the academifts of Vi- 
A 
see ADEM 
ON, or New s, in Ancient Geo- 
graphy, a town of the ifland of Peas fo Called by its founder, 
the emperor ia It con saint a temp le of Hercules, 
and another confecrated to Nester without doubt 
ent, as Adria n emaoyed only  Athedtans s in 
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onde eat who flourifhed about the year 430, is cele- 
brated for his knowledge of the Ariftotelian dotrine, and 
was the mafter of Proclus, who attended upon his, fchool 
before he was 20 years of age. This anal Se is diftin- 
guifhed from a Platonift of the fame na 
patetic of a ftill later age, who 
the Meteorology of Ariftotle. 
LYMPTIODORUS, a learned Greek commentator on the 
Holy Scriptures, who was probably at firft a monk, and 
sae became a deacon of Alexandria. It is not at all 
elucidations of the facred writings. re extant by 
him a fhort « Commentary on Ecclefiaftes,” in Greek and 
ati ‘Commentary upon the agents Con of Jere- 
OLYMPIO 
pellation given to hole who came off victorious in the 
lympic games 
The Olympionices were infinitely honoured in their 
haa efteemed to have Seay it immortal henour. 
y give ile drachmas to 
lympionices ; ; _— an maitel to about 58 ounces of 
fiver of our wei 
IS, in Ancient Cay, a ftrong place on the: 
Peloponnefus, near the mountains, on the confines of La- 
conia ae a3 A pelide. Polybius 
PIUM, a {mall town of Sicyoria, a of A fopus, 
and at a 2 fal diftance from its mouth. It was famous for 
the tomb of Eupolis, an Athenian meee, made ceed by Ho- 
race, as one of al ae authors in the department uf the 
ancient Greek comedy. 
OLYM US, i in Biography. ‘There were two great 
eye in antiquity of the name of Olympus. The firft 
lyfia, yh is fuppofed to have been ‘the inventor of 
eo 
alt 
Thi 
Gellius, int Arion panes when he precipitated himfelf i ee 
the fea. Plutarch fays, that he was th 
matter of beautiful a "fublime mufic: he excelled in the 
tender and pathetic. Philoftratus made him the fubjeét of 
one of his picture 
MPUS, Myf ryf an, lived before the Trojan war, and was 
the difciple of Marfyas. Plato, Ariftophanes, Ariftotle, 
and Ovid, cite his verfes. Olympus the Phrygian lived in 
the time of Midas 
Ariftoxenus relates that he compofed, m the Lydian 
mode, the air for the flute which exprefled a eee 
forrows for the death of Python 7) wife are 
afcribed the Cerulean, Mae. Harmatian, and Spondean 
es. utarch, in his ere 
that Alexander, in his ¢ ry 
Phrygia,” pretends that Giana was ne 
