Pisaeus

1.

pīsa, ae, v. pisum.

2.

Pīsa, ae, and, less freq., Pīsae, ārum, f., = Pisa, a city of Elis, on the Alphēus, near which the Olympic games were celebrated:

aut Alphea rotis praelabi flumina Pisae,

Verg. G. 3, 180:

Pisa,

Ov. Ib. 327; Stat. Th. 4, 238:

Pisae Oenomai,

Mel. 2, 3, 4.—Hence, Pīsaeus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pisa, Pisœan:

Arethusa, so called because, acc. to the myth, it rose in Elis,

Ov. M. 5, 409:

hasta,

of Oenomăus, king of Elis, id. Am. 3, 2, 15:

Pisaeā lege trementem currere et Oenomai fremitus audire sequentis,

i. e. the law by which any one who demanded Hippodamia in marriage, was compelled to contend in the chariot-race with her father Oenomaus, and, if defeated, was put to death, Stat. S. 1, 2, 41:

Pisaeique tori legem,

Nemes. Cyn. 23:

Pisaeae ramus olivae,

Juv. 13, 99: praemia, prizes, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 698 P.:

annus,

in which the Olympic games took place, Stat. S. 1, 3, 8; id. Th. 1, 421: ebur Pisaeo pollice rasum, by the hand which wrought the Olympic Jove, i. e. that of Phidias, id. S. 4, 6, 29.—

B.

Subst.: Pīsaea, ae, f., Hippodamia, Ov. Tr. 2, 386.