Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Iselastici ludi

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. 

ISELAS'TICI LUDI. The games exhibited at the four great Grecian festivals; viz. the Olympian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Pythian, which were so termed because the victors at them (hieronicae) were conducted home with much pomp and ceremony to their native towns, which they entered in a triumphal car (εἰσήλασαν) drawn by four horses, and crowned with chaplets. Subsequently, however, other games besides these four were honored with the same name. Vitruv. Praef. ix. 1. Plin. Ep. x. 118. Compare Suet. Nero, 25.