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 29
owers. After Hercufes had three times in vain draggedhim down in his embrace, he raised him with his mus-cular arm, and strangled him without suffering him to touchthe reviving earth. Theseus had to overcome some ob-stacles of the same nature in his combat with Cercyon ofAttica, who used to catch… … Hercules and Antaeus (From a carving inthe Museum of Chiusi.) WRESTLING AND WRESTLERS. 23 modern governments are armed with very effectual meansof putting a stop to them. Theseus, however, had not athis disposal the resources of civilisation, and it was purelyout of good will, and at great personal…
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