Pīsa, ae, and, less freq., Pīsae, ārum, f., = Πῖσα,
I 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.
II —Hence, Pīsaeus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Pisa , Pisaean : 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.