A Wrestling Match in Nonnus

Herbert W. Greene

doi:10.1017/S0009840X00046771

A Wrestling Match in Nonnus

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009

Herbert W. Greene

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Information: The Classical Review , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , August 1911 , pp. 129 - 132

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X00046771 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Classical Association 1911

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^{page 131 note 1} The similar statement in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, vol. ii., p. 328Google Scholar, ‘The victory was not decided until one of the parties was killed, or lifted up a finger, thereby declaring that he was unable to continue the contest either from pain or fatigue,’ is not borne out by the language of Philostratus (Imag. ii. 6), who is cited as the authority for the statement. He Only says , words as applicable to the procedure related by Nonnus as to that stated in the Dictionary.

^{page 131 note 2} The phrase is in itself questionable. Homer has , but never χɛῖρα: neither has Nonnus elsewhere nor, as far as I know, any other writer. If he wished to express the stretching out of a hand, it is strange that he should not have used (ii. 234) or, more probable still, his favourite or (vii. 27; xxi. 124 et al.).