gymnastic contests
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
armed races · boxing match · gymnastic exercises
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Laws
A series of races run in armor over various distances, for men, youths, children and women.
We shall ordain that the course for the youths’ races shall be two-thirds of the full course, and that for children one-half, when they compete either as archers or as hoplites.
So at our contests the herald (as is now the practice) shall summon first the short-distance runner:
Clin. Very right.
On the Cavalry Commander
Athletic competitions used as a comparison to show that martial horsemanship is more worthwhile and less burdensome.
In case anyone feels that his troubles will be endless if his duty requires him to practise horsemanship in this way, let him reflect that men in training for gymnastic contests face troubles far more numerous and exacting than the most strenuous votaries of horsemanship.
For most gymnastic exercises are carried out with sweat and drudgery, but nearly all equestrian exercises are pleasant work.
And, remember, it is far more glorious to win a victory in war than in a boxing match, because, whereas the state as well as the victor has a considerable share in this glory, for a victory in war the gods generally crown states with happiness as well.