was one of the most celebrated of the Greek wrestlers, who having early
accustomed himself to carry great burthens, became so strong, that nothing
seemed too much for his vast efforts. It is recorded of him that he carried
on his shoulders a young bullock, four years old, for more than forty
yards, that he then killed it with a blow of his fist, and to crown the
feat, afterwards eat it up.
This man was one of the disciples of Pythagoras, whose life he had saved,
by supporting the whole weight of the building on his shoulders, when the
roof of the school in which he was teaching gave way.
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In his old age a melancholy fate awaited him; for failing in an attempt to
pull up a tree by the roots, his hands remained fast pinched in the tree,
when a lion suddenly sprang upon him, which he was unable to escape, and
fell beneath the fury of the beast.
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