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 45
and after having inhis time won many wreaths, led his two sons to the Olympic 38 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILI* games. The young men having been proclaimed the con*querors, they, taking their father upon their shoulders, borehim through the great assembly, amidst the most enthusias-tic… … Pugilist rubbed with oil before a Combat. (From a bronze in the Academyof St Luc.) wish. And Diagoras seemed to be of the same opinion; for,unable to bear up against the excitement of the occasion,he died under the eyes of the assembled Greeks, in thearms of the two sons whose victory he had been…
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