Athletae
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Trained athletic competitors whose bodily condition (embonpoint) exemplifies the danger of extremes.
The well-known facts with regard to young persons and the athletae prove this.
In the athletae, embonpoint, if carried to its utmost limit, is dangerous, for they cannot remain in the same state nor be stationary;
Archidamus
Victors in the games whose honors are used as a point of comparison for Spartan prestige.
We may well be ashamed when we think of the Olympian and the other national assemblies, where every one of us used to be more envied and more admired than the athletes who carry off victories in the games.