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Headword: *leonti/skos
Adler number: lambda,258
Translated headword: Leontiskos, Leontiscus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
There was also Leontiskos, a Messenian out of Sicily; the so-called Akrokhersites ["Mr Fingertip"] -- for by seizing the fingertips of his opponent he would break them off and not let go before ascertaining that the man had given in. He too used to wrestle.
Greek Original:
*leonti/skos: h)=n de\ kai\ *leonti/skos *messh/nios e)k *sikeli/as, *)akroxersi/ths ou(/tw kalou/menos: lambano/menos ga\r a)/krwn tw=n xeirw=n tou= a)ntagwnistou= kate/kla kai\ ou) pro/teron h)fi/ei, pri\n ai)/sqoito a)pagoreu/santos. ou(=tos de\ kai\ e)pa/laien.
Note:
Pausanias 6.4.3 (web address 1). From alpha 1023: see the note there.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 July 2001@10:26:02.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link; set status) on 29 October 2003@18:10:44.
David Whitehead on 30 October 2003@03:38:56.
David Whitehead on 4 April 2013@09:19:37.
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