Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 25
owers. After Hercules had three times in vain draggedhim down in his embrace, he raised him with his mus-cular arm, and strangled him without suffering him to touchthe reviving earth. Theseus had to overcome some ob-stacles of the same nature in his combat with Cercyon ofAttica, who used to catch… … WRESTLING AND WRESTLERS. 23 modem governments are armed with very effectual meansof putting a stop to them. Theseus, however, had not athis disposal the resources of civilisation, and it was purelyout of good will, and at great personal peril, that he as-sumed in his own person the functions which…
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