Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 116
ourse, which at Olympia was six hundred feet; secondly, RUNNERS AND RUNNING. 109 there was a diaulos, or double course, in which the athletes,after having reached the goal, returned; thirdly, there wasthe dolichos, in regard to which opinion is much divided.According to some it was seven courses of… … Ancient Foot Runners. (From a vase in the Berlin Museum.) dead on arriving at the goal, after having run the dolichos.He attained such celebrity in this department of athletics thatit was said of him, while language was still in its early exu-berance, his feet left no print on the sand. The…
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