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... wrestled , or at least those who had not been beaten by any one competitor in three out of the first four contests . This retirement is a natural consequence of what I hold to be the qualification for ultimate victory , namely TO DEFEAT ...
... wrestled , or at least those who had not been beaten by any one competitor in three out of the first four contests . This retirement is a natural consequence of what I hold to be the qualification for ultimate victory , namely TO DEFEAT ...
Page x
... wrestling , if there was any , won the pentathlon . But still a winner could not , as Prof. Gardner urges , in objection to Dr Pinder's scheme , " be very inferior in the three first contests . " On my hypothesis , precisely the same ...
... wrestling , if there was any , won the pentathlon . But still a winner could not , as Prof. Gardner urges , in objection to Dr Pinder's scheme , " be very inferior in the three first contests . " On my hypothesis , precisely the same ...
Page xi
... wrestling . In this case , why should his statue bear the halteres and his prize - vase contain no allusion to wrestling ? " Yet these remarks are almost equally antagonistic to the application of Prof. Gardner's scheme to Flavius ...
... wrestling . In this case , why should his statue bear the halteres and his prize - vase contain no allusion to wrestling ? " Yet these remarks are almost equally antagonistic to the application of Prof. Gardner's scheme to Flavius ...
Page xii
... wrestling . I need not make any assumption as to the numbers in the case of Tisamenos . Pausanias says of him , III . 11. 6 , οὕτω πένταθλον Ολυμπίασιν ἄσκησας ἀπῆλθεν ἡττηθείς , καί τοι τὰ δύο γε ἦν πρῶτος · καὶ γὰρ δρόμῳ τε ἐκράτει ...
... wrestling . I need not make any assumption as to the numbers in the case of Tisamenos . Pausanias says of him , III . 11. 6 , οὕτω πένταθλον Ολυμπίασιν ἄσκησας ἀπῆλθεν ἡττηθείς , καί τοι τὰ δύο γε ἦν πρῶτος · καὶ γὰρ δρόμῳ τε ἐκράτει ...
Page xiii
... wrestling at Olympia . " There happens to be a little indirect evidence on this point . Ol . VIII . 38 tells us that from eleven to sixteen boys competed in wrestling at once . Of course when the term pedpos was used metaphorically the ...
... wrestling at Olympia . " There happens to be a little indirect evidence on this point . Ol . VIII . 38 tells us that from eleven to sixteen boys competed in wrestling at once . Of course when the term pedpos was used metaphorically the ...
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