Iselastici Ludi

The four great games of Greece—i. e. the Olympian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Pythian. They were so called because the victors, after the contests were over, entered their native towns crowned and in a triumphal chariot (εἰσήλασαν) drawn by four horses (Pliny , Epist. x. 118; cf. Suet. Nero, 25). In later times the reward given by the Roman emperors to the victors at the Iselastic Games was called iselasticum (Trai. ad Pliny , Epist. x. 119).