 | William Smith, Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1846 - 402 pages
...contest, the judges exhorted them to acquit themselves nobly, and then gave the signal to commence. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive (K6rji>oc), cut from a sacred olive tree, which grew in the sacred grove of Altis in Olympia. The victor... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Mythology, Classical - 1849 - 516 pages
...accompanied by their relatives and friends into the stadium, who exhorted them to acquit themselves nobly. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive, which, according to the Elean legend, was the prize originally instituted by the Idaean Heracles. (See... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1851 - 366 pages
...contest, the judges exhorted them to acquit themselves nobly, and then gave the signal to commence. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive (Korivof), cut from a sacred olive tree, which grew in the sacred grove of Altis in Olympia. The victor... | |
 | Pindar - Poetry - 1852 - 486 pages
...contest, the judges exhorted them to acquit themselves nobly, and then gave the signal to commence. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive (ra-ivof), cut from a sacred olive-tree, which grew in the sacred grove of Altis, in Olympia. The victor... | |
 | Pindar - Athletics - 1852 - 478 pages
...contest, the judges exhorted them to acquit themselves nobly, and then gave the signal to commence. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive (rarivof), cut from a sacred olive-tree, which grew in the sacred grove of Altis, in Olympia. The victor... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 676 pages
...and chariot-races ; and the chariotrace, with four full-grown horses, became one of the most popular and celebrated of all the matches. The only prize...this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions ill life. To have his name proclaimed as victor before assembled Hellas was an object of ambition with... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 724 pages
...and chariot-races ; and the chariot-race, with four full-grown horses, became one of the most popular and celebrated of all the matches. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild-olive ; but this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions in life. To have his * The festival... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 708 pages
...celebrated of all the matches. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild-olive ; but this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions in life. To have his -* The festival was called by the Greeks a Pentaeteris (irevraeTr]pi$\ because it was, celebrated every... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1860 - 718 pages
...and chariot-races; and the chariot-race, with four full-grown horses, became one of the most popular and celebrated of all the matches. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild-olive ; but this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions in life. To have his * The festival... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Mythology, Classical - 1864 - 356 pages
...festival, ar greater number than had ever been sent by a private person ; three of them obtained prizes. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive.* The Greek kings in Sicily, Macedon, and other parts of the Hellenic world, contended with one another... | |
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... the matches. The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive ; but this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions in life. To have his name proclaimed as victor before assembled Hollas was an object of ambition with the noblest... 
