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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 97 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OLYMPIAD , in See also:

Greek See also:chronology, a See also:period of four years, used as a method of dating for See also:literary purposes, but never adopted in every-See also:day See also:life. The four years were reckoned from one celebration of the Olympian See also:games to another, the first Olympiad beginning with 776 B.C., the See also:year of Coroebus, the first See also:victor in the games after their suspension for 86 years, the last with A.D. 394, when they were finally abolished during the reign of See also:Theodosius the See also:Great. The See also:system was first regularly used by the Sicilian historian See also:Timaeus (352—256 B.C.).

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