. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 123.— amphora. Munich, 495. crrpe(f)€Lv, to turn the buttock. The cross-buttock differs chieflyfrom the buttock in that the legs come more into play, and wemay therefore infer that this is the special throw whereofTheocritus speaks when he relates how Heracles learnt fromHarpalacus all the tricks wherewith the nimble Argive cross-buttockers (diro o-KcAewv eSpocrrpocjiOL) give each other the fall. ^It was evidently a favourite throw. Theophrastus, in hischaracter of the late learner who wishes to be thoughtthoroughly accomplished and up-to-date,
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . Fig. 123.— amphora. Munich, 495. crrpe(f)€Lv, to turn the buttock. The cross-buttock differs chieflyfrom the buttock in that the legs come more into play, and wemay therefore infer that this is the special throw whereofTheocritus speaks when he relates how Heracles learnt fromHarpalacus all the tricks wherewith the nimble Argive cross-buttockers (diro o-KcAewv eSpocrrpocjiOL) give each other the fall. ^It was evidently a favourite throw. Theophrastus, in hischaracter of the late learner who wishes to be thoughtthoroughly accomplished and up-to-date, remarks that in the ^ 1. 25 ai/ airov /xerajSas irXi^oV ai/ /ttera/SaXoO.^ xxiv. 111. 394 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS chap. bath he is continually giving the cross-buttock as if wrestling. ^. Fig. 124.— kylix. British Museum, E. 48.
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