Olympias, adis, The name of Alexanders mother, and a winde blowing in Eubœa. Olympias, is alse % spare of fiue yeres, wherby the old Greekes did accounte, as we do now by the yeares of our Lord: as, the first Olympias, the seconde, the third &c. Glareanus writeth, that Olympias is the space of foure yeares, and that they, which take and write otherwise are deceiued.