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 28
y,and many excelled in it. To this class belonged Sostratusof Sicyon, as well as Leontis of Messina, who, according toPa^ssanias, never fatigued himself by fighting body to body, WRESTLING AND WRESTLERS. 25 but contented himself by squeezing and tAvisting the fingersof his enemy with such vigour as… … Perpendicular Wrestling. (Monument, dall Institutio, i., 22, 8 b.) In the Homeric times neither this preliminary playnor the cunning and much-cultivated art of the horizontalwrestle was known, and upright wrestling was the only formpractised. When Ajax, the son of Telamon, opposed him-self to the…
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