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 32
ity,and many excelled in it. To this class belonged Sostratusof Sicyon, as well as Leontis of Messina, who, according toPanamas, never fatigued himself by fighting body to body, WRESTLING AND WRESTLERS. 2$ but contented himself by squeezing and twisting the fingersof his enemy with such vigour as… … Perpendicular Wrestling. (Monument, dall Institutio, i., 22, 8 b.) In the Homeric times neither this preliminary playnor the cunning and much-cultivated art of the horizontalwrestle was known, and upright wrestling was the only formpractised. When Ajax, the son of Telamon, opposed him-self to the…
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