Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hieronica

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

HIERONI'CA (ἱερονίκης). Properly, a Greek term, which has exclusive reference to the customs of that nation. It was employed to designate the victor in any of their public games; viz. the Nemean, Pythian, Isthmian, and Olympic, which were also called sacred games, because they commenced with religious ceremonies. The illustration (Hieronica/1.1) represents a Grecian youth, crowned and habited as one of these victors, whose costume very closely resembles that ascribed to Nero, when he entered the cities of Italy as a hieronica (Suet. Nero, 25.), after contending at the Olympic races.

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  Hieronica/1.1