Athletic games
“Greek contests”
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Those games · sacred contests · the contentious solemnities and superstitious contests of the Greeks · the stadium
spoken of as
1 expressionsacred contests“athletic games”1 mention
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man (Latin)
So in the sacred contests many have won by wearing out the hands of those who struck them with stubborn endurance.
in the texts
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
Athletic/religious games in which competitors win through endurance rather than force, used as an analogy for the wise man's strength.
So in the sacred contests many have won by wearing out the hands of those who struck them with stubborn endurance.
Scorpiace
Greek-style athletic and religious contests, described with their violence and rewards, used as an extended analogy for martyrdom.
Those games — the contentious solemnities and superstitious contests of the Greeks, both of religions and of pleasures — with what favour the world celebrates them, has now become plain in Africa too.