Olympicus, a, um, Of Olympus. Olympienm certamen, Was a game or price kept on the hill of Olympus, by all the princes and cities of Greece, euerye fift yeare, in the honor of Hercules, who first begannt it, In the which were all these maistries prooued: Running on foote to a goale, Also running foorth, and back againe two furlongs. Also wrestling, sighting with fistes, running wyth horses, and leaping from the one to the other, courling with chariots: rnnuing with Mares: but so as in the middle of the course, he that did ride should leape downe, and holding fast % brpdle, should make an end of his course. There was also contention and victorie of Poets, Rhetoricians, Musitians, and subtile disputers, In the place did growe a wilde Olyue tree, whereof Garlaudes were made, and giuen to the victonrs herevnto assembled: In the which tyme eyther was warre appointed, or leagues coucluded.