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 118
cameto find at Delphos the sacred fire necessary for the sacrifices,to replace that which the Persians had quenched; on the RUNNERS AND RUNNING. Ill same day, before the sinking of the sun, he had accom-plished his mission and returned. He had walked onethousand stadia, but he expired as soon as he… … Running with Arms. (From a cup in the Museum of Berlin.) he mentions, also, a young man who ran 75,000. Butthe feats Pliny mentions are all the more astonishing,seeing that when Tiberius proceeded to Germany afterhis son Drusus, who was dying, he could not arrive athis destination in less than…
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