Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 370
dle finger of the right hand. The form of thejavelin here is also different from that in No. 392; it has asharp long point ; the thong is also fastened near the butt-end, unless we are to suppose that if there had been more ANTIQUITIES 321 room the engraver would have produced the shaft fartherto… … Playing with the hoop (t/x>xos, Graecus trochus ; the stickwas called eXarrjp, clavis) was considered by the Romans as x 322 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS a sign of effeminacy ; and this was probably also the case inGreece. The boy here carries a fighting-cock wrapped upin his mantle. Since…
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