Note 057 The athletic exercises, particularly the caestus and pancratium, were condemned by Lycurgus, Philopoemen, and Galen, a lawgiver, a general, and a physician. Against their authority and reasons, the reader may weigh the apology of Lucian, in the character of Solon. See West on the Olympic Games, in his Pindar, vol. ii. p. 86 - 96 243 - 248]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 58