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 41
and after having inhis time won many wreaths, led his two sons to the Olympic 38 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. games. The young men having been proclaimed the con-querors, they, taking their father upon their shoulders, borehim through the great assembly, amidst the most enthusias-tic… … Pagilist rubbed with oil before a Combat. (From a bronze in the Acadcmjfof St Luc.) wish. And Diagoras seemed to be of the same opinion ; for,unable to bear up against the excitement of the occasion,he died under the eyes of the assembled Greeks, in thearms of the two sons whose victory he had been…
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