 ... carrying meat from the shambles; or that crowns of olive should have been bestowed by the Eleans on boys of his own age, who had excelled in gymnastic exploits. Nor was the art of boxing exhibited to his young, but aspiring mind, in less glowing colours....  The New sporting magazine - Página 1671841Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Nimrod - 1874 - 418 páginas
...young, but aspiring mind, in less glowing colours. He found not only that Milo, one of the athletae of his day, could knock down a bull by a blow of his...So far from it, indeed, that, among the Greek and Eoman nobility and gentry, scarcely a day, he found, passed without their practising bodily exercises... | |
 | Nimrod - 1903 - 532 páginas
...young, but aspiring mind, in less glowing colours. He found not only that Milo, one of the athletse of his day, could knock d'own a bull by a blow of...bodily exercises in the gymnasium — the use of the caestus among the number; and, to his surprise, he learned that even the love of gladiatorial shows... | |
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