. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. TOMBADELLEBIGHE 27 with sponges : the artist gives the atmosphere of the sceneafter the fight. On one of the other walls in this tomb theboxers are ready for action, raising their cestus-bound fistsagainst each other, one hand closed for attack, the other openfor defence, as frequently described in the ancient authors.^Cicero tells us that boxers sighed and groaned, in order toincrease the force of the blow.^ These cestus fights must havebeen terrible. The guard, nowadays less, was then moreimportant than the blow, for it was too dang
. Etruscan tomb paintings, Their subjects and significance. TOMBADELLEBIGHE 27 with sponges : the artist gives the atmosphere of the sceneafter the fight. On one of the other walls in this tomb theboxers are ready for action, raising their cestus-bound fistsagainst each other, one hand closed for attack, the other openfor defence, as frequently described in the ancient authors.^Cicero tells us that boxers sighed and groaned, in order toincrease the force of the blow.^ These cestus fights must havebeen terrible. The guard, nowadays less, was then moreimportant than the blow, for it was too dangerous to take therisk of being hit by ones opponent when attacking him,even if one was confident that ones own blow would be theharder ; one had to play for an opening, at the same timeguarding against the single blow which was sufficient toknock a man out. Finally, on the extreme left of the picture(fig. 20) we meet with a scene which is repeated in anotherpicture in the same tomb, as well as in the Tomba del Tri-clinio : a rider seated sideways and at t
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