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 35
28 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. of Homer, the pancrace was only introduced at the publicgames during the thirty-third Olympiad. It was a mostviolent athletic exercise, which combined wrestling andpugilism, and in which it was permitted not only to pushand drive an adversary with all ones… … A Pancratic Engagement (Bas-relief in the Clementine Museum.) it is necessary to consider both what he says and whathe omits to say. The personages whom he brings underour notice in the passage we have already quoted, are notsaid to have rubbed their bodies with oil before coming tothe combat…
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