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 42
e strokes, says Homer, in describing the contest betweenEpeus and Euryalus ; the divine Epeus * landing uponhis adversary, gives him a buffet on the cheek that makeshim drop. He falls, his friends surrounding him, carryhim away insensible, his legs hanging powerless, his headdrooping on his… … Pugilist armed with the Cestiis.(After a statue in the Louvre. ) d.O WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. giddy, and finally delivered the cûz/J> de grâce by strikinghim with the two cesti at the same time. Combats of this kind occasionally were of a speciallyferocious character; for example,…
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