in antiquity, a name given by the Elians to those Olympic games which had been celebrated under the director of the Piseans and Arcadians. The Elians claimed the sole right of managing the Olympic games, in which they sometimes met Anomalistic Year, in Astronomy, the time that the earth takes to pass through her orbit; it is also called the Periodical Year. The space of time belonging to this year is greater than the tropical year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes. See Astronomy.