Fencing . a shudder amongst the more interchange of half-arm blows, which could only haveoccurred in in-fighting, lasted apparently for a long time, untilthe perspiration poured from every limb of each fighting must, however, have been some cessations and someretreats to a safer distance. For just afterwards it is clear thatEuryalus, the second comer, the friend of Diomede, was outof distance,peering about for a chance of making a well-judgedattack. It was while he was engaged in this operation thatEpeiis made a rush at him and caught him full on the Me
Fencing . a shudder amongst the more interchange of half-arm blows, which could only haveoccurred in in-fighting, lasted apparently for a long time, untilthe perspiration poured from every limb of each fighting must, however, have been some cessations and someretreats to a safer distance. For just afterwards it is clear thatEuryalus, the second comer, the friend of Diomede, was outof distance,peering about for a chance of making a well-judgedattack. It was while he was engaged in this operation thatEpeiis made a rush at him and caught him full on the Mead offwas a knock-down blow, and it decided thecombat. The limbs of Euryalus were relaxed, and he fell all ofa heap. * As when by the ripple caused by a sharp north-easter a fish is cast up on the beach, so the blow stretched himhelpless on the ground. The victor thereupon magnanimouslyextended his hand and raised his fallen foe, who was led off byhis comrades through the crowd with clots of blood rushing. Figure III.—Stop for right-hand lead-off THE HISTORY OF BOXING 127 from his mouth, and his head wobbHng from side to side, andhis feet dragging behind him. Several other details peep out which show that the philosophyof the fighting school was pretty much the same then as the Greeks are invited by Achilles, the master of thegames, to come up to the scratch, the probable winner is spokenof in advance, not as the man who can hit the hardest, or guardthe best, but who can endure the longest. The contest itselfis announced as aXe-ycir?/, * causing distress ; and it is clear thatthe distress referred to is the same as that mentioned in *Fistianaand the ^Records of the Ring, , that it is not the mere paincaused by the hard knocks received, but that exhaustion whichis the real cause, nine times out of ten, of losing a fight. Thisis shown by the fact that the very same word is used as anepithet for the wrestling in which no blows at all are , it was not suppo
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