Milo
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a Milo
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
A famously strong athlete invoked as an example of someone for whom a large food ration would be small.
it is a small ration for a Milo, but a large one for a man just beginning to go in for athletics.
De legendis gentilium libris
Athlete cited alongside Polydamas as an example of trained strength.
And Milo could not be thrust off his oiled shield, but held out against the pushing no less than statues fastened with lead.
Letters
Legendary wrestler used as a simile for Libanius's rhetorical strength.
like some Polydamas or Milo declining the contest of pancratium or wrestling against me;
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman figure defended by Cicero for the murder of Clodius; despite Cicero's oration, he was not acquitted.
During the next few years the renewal of the understanding among the triumvirs shut Cicero out from any leading part in politics, and he resumed his activity in the law-courts, his most important case being, perhaps, the defence of Milo for the murder of Clodius, Cicero’s most troublesome enemy.
On Fate
Wrestler used as an illustrative example of a combined ('cofated') proposition requiring an adversary to be true.
for the matter is combined and “cofated”—so he calls it, because it is so fated both that Laius will lie with his wife and that he will beget Oedipus by her—' just as, if it had been said, “Milo will wrestle at Olympia,” and someone should rejoin, “Therefore, whether he has an adversary or has not, he will wrestle,” he would be in error;