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 30
combatants carried away by the ardourof the struggle. How is it possible to prevent two men, ofwhom the one is writhing in the clasp of the other, fromthreatening each other with the fist, and passing from thethreat to the act ? The wrestler, in spite of himself, becamea pugilist, and the… … 28 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL, of Homer, the pancrace was only introduced at the publicgames during the thirty-third Olympiad. It was a mostviolent athletic exercise, which combined wrestling andpugilism, and in which it was permitted not only to pushand drive an adversary with all ones…
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