ANOLYMPIADES, in Antiquity, a name given by the Elians to those Olympic games which had been celebrated under the direction of the Pifians and Arcadians. The Elians claimed the sole right of man-
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ging the Olympic games, in which they sometimes met with competitors. The hundred and fourth Olympiad was celebrated by order of the Arcadians, by whom the Elians were at that time reduced very low: this, as well as those managed by the inhabitants of Pisa, they called αναιμιαδες, that is, "unlawful Olympiads;" and left them out of their annals, wherein the names of their victors and other occurrences were registered.