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 46
rthe strokes, says Homer, in describing the contest betweenEpeus and Euryalus; the divine Epeus landing uponhis adversary, gives him a buffet on the cheek that makeshim drop. He falls, his friends surrounding him, carryhim away insensible, his legs hanging powerless, his headdrooping on his… … Pugilist armed with the Cestus.(After a statue in the Louvre.) 40 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. giddy, and finally delivered the coup de grdce by strikinghim with the two cesti at the same time. Combats of this kind occasionally were of a speciallyferocious character; for example, the fight…
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