I, Androleos, took part in every boxing contest
that the Greeks preside over, every single one. At
Pisa 1 saved one ear, and in Plataea one eyelid, but at
Delphi I was carried out insensible. Damoteles, my
father, and my fellow-townsmen had been summoned
by herald to bear me out of the stadion either
dead or mutilated.
Lucillius Epigramma 11.81 https://anthologiagraeca.org/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:11.81/
that the Greeks preside over, every single one. At
Pisa 1 saved one ear, and in Plataea one eyelid, but at
Delphi I was carried out insensible. Damoteles, my
father, and my fellow-townsmen had been summoned
by herald to bear me out of the stadion either
dead or mutilated.
Lucillius Epigramma 11.81 https://anthologiagraeca.org/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:11.81/