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Milon, der sechsfache Grand-Slam-Gewinner der Antike #2 (441 Aufrufe)
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2. Strabon (ca. 64 v.u.Z. – ca. 19 u.Z.): Geographie

Accordingly, it [Kroton] had a very large number of Olympic victors, although it did not remain inhabited a long time, on account of the ruinous loss of its citizens who fell in such a great numbers at the River Sagra. And its fame was increased by the large number of its Pythagorean philosophers, and by Milo, who was the most illustrious of athletes [ἐπιφανέστατος μὲν τῶν ἀθλητῶν γεγονῶς], and also a companion of Pythagoras, who spent a long time in the city.

It is said that once, at the common mess of the philosophers, when a pillar began to give way, Milo slipped in under the burden and saved them all, and then drew himself from under it and escaped.

And it is probably because he relied upon this same strength that he brought on himself the end of his life as reported by some writers; at any rate, the story is told that once, when he was travelling through a deep forest, he strayed rather far from the road, and then, on finding a large log cleft with wedges, thrust his hands and feet at the same time into the cleft and strained to split the log completely asunder; but he was only strong enough to make the wedges fall out, whereupon the two parts of the log instantly snapped together; and caught in such a trap as that, he became food for wild beasts [ἀποληφθέντα δ’ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ τοιαύτῃ πάγῃ θηρόβρωτον γενέσθαι].

(VI 1, 12)
 
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