MILO  , or MILoN, of See also:

• CROTONA, CROTO

Crotona, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• ATHLETE (Gr. aOX177'7r; Lat. athleta)

athlete, lived about the end of the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He was six times crowned at the Olympic See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games and six times at the Pythian for See also:

• WRESTLING (O. Eng. wrcestlian)

wrestling, and was famous throughout the civilized See also:

• WORLD

world for his feats of strength—such as carrying an ox on his shoulders through the See also:

• STADIUM

stadium at See also:

• OLYMPIA

Olympia . In his native See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city he was much honoured, and he commanded the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army which defeated the See also:

• PEOPLE

people of See also:

• SYBARIS

Sybaris in 511 . The traditional See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his See also:

• DEATH

death is often used to point a moral: he found a See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree which some woodcutters had partially split with a See also:

• WEDGE (O. Eng. wecg, a mass of metal, cognate with Dutch wig, wigge, Dan. vaegge, &c.; in Lith. the cognate form outside Teut. is found in wagis, a peg, spigot; there is no connexion with " weigh," " weight," which must be referred to the root wegh, to li

wedge, and attempted to rend it asunder; but the wedge See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell out, and the tree closed on his See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, imprisoning him till wolves came and devoured him . His name became proverbial for See also:

• PERSONAL

personal strength (Diod . Sic. xii . 9; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias vi . 14; See also:

• STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo vi . 263; See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus iii . 137) .