This episode about Nisus and Euryalus is found in the funeral games for Anchises found in Book V of Virgil’s Aeneid, in which Nisus, who fell as he was about to win a foot race, tripped another contestant to ensure that his inseparable companion, Euryalus, would win instead. The caption for this illustration reads: He rose to his feet just at the moment that Salius was coming up, and contrived to stand in his way so as to overturn him. Euryalus, who had still kept the third place, now sprang forward and was easily victorious amid the applause of the crowd. Elymus came in next, and close behi
This episode about Nisus and Euryalus is found in the funeral games for Anchises found in Book V of Virgil’s Aeneid, in which Nisus, who fell as he was about to win a foot race, tripped another contestant to ensure that his inseparable companion, Euryalus, would win instead. The caption for this illustration reads: He rose to his feet just at the moment that Salius was coming up, and contrived to stand in his way so as to overturn him. Euryalus, who had still kept the third place, now sprang forward and was easily victorious amid the applause of the crowd. Elymus came in next, and close behind him Diores. But Salius loudly demanded that the first prize of right belonged to him
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