OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 4:18

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Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present,

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Verse 18. Fifth; perhaps in imitation of the Olympic games, ( Menochius.) first instituted at Elea, and afterwards at Alexandria, Athens, and so forth Grot. Calmet.

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