[The term for] sacred olive-trees of Athena, from which the oil was given as a prize to the victors in the Panathenaea.[1] They were at first 12 in number, those which had been transplanted from the acropolis to the Academy. Or named thus from the fate [moros] and the murder of Halirrothios, or because all Athenians distributed and shared out the oil from them.[3]
Of the trunk of the moria is called an olive-stump.[4] Lysias [writes]: "[the prosecutor says that in the year when Souniades] was archon an olive-stump had been uprooted by me."[5]
Trees had been planted in the gymnasium. It was customary for the athletes having anointed themselves to run in the sun. Aristophanes [writes]: "but going down into the Academy, you will run under the sacred olives ..."[6]