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E·lis

 (ē′lĭs)
A region and city of ancient Greece in the western Peloponnesus. The plain of Olympia, in the southern part of the area, was the site of the original Olympic Games.
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Elis

(ˈiːlɪs)
n
(Placename) an ancient city-state of SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese: site of the ancient Olympic games
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E•lis

(ˈi lɪs)

n.
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
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An oligarchy also will be destroyed when they create another oligarchy under it; that is, when the management of public affairs is in the hands of a few, and not equally, but when all of them do not partake of the supreme power, as happened once at Elis, where the supreme power in general was in the hands of a very few out of whom a senate was chosen, consisting but of ninety' who held their places for life; and their mode of election was calculated to preserve the power amongst each other's families, like the senators at Lacedaemon.
(2) Oenomaus, king of Pisa in Elis, warned by an oracle that he should be killed by his son-in-law, offered his daughter Hippodamia to the man who could defeat him in a chariot race, on condition that the defeated suitors should be slain by him.
The men, moreover, of Buprasium and of Elis, so much of it as is enclosed between Hyrmine, Myrsinus upon the sea-shore, the rock Olene and Alesium.
And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer of Mars, and the son of valiant Phyleus, dear to Jove, who quarrelled with his father, and went to settle in Dulichium.
He has a ship of mine, and I want it, to cross over to Elis: I have twelve brood mares there with yearling mule foals by their side not yet broken in, and I want to bring one of them over here and break him."
There is Gorgias of Leontium, and Prodicus of Ceos, and Hippias of Elis, who go the round of the cities, and are able to persuade the young men to leave their own citizens by whom they might be taught for nothing, and come to them whom they not only pay, but are thankful if they may be allowed to pay them.
ELIS (Eternity Logistics Intelligent System) was unveiled recently during Eternity Mexico's two-year anniversary celebration in Mexico City, where company officials also unveiled a new logo and rebranding campaign.
Yn y drydedd raglen mae Elis, sy'n wreiddiol o Gaerfyrddin, yn canolbwyntio ar ffermwyr.
A few weeks after her birth Elis was diagnosed with Charge syndrome, a genetic disorder affecting one in 10,000 children each year.
Lambert (1986) first acknowledged that Enuma elis borrows elements from Anzu to depict Marduk as the new Ninurta, the implications of which were highlighted by Machinist: "The similarities with and modifications of the Anzu text...
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