"Palaestra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... loose, and {over} the mane, and stains the ground with his warm blood. The unhappy Phaedimus, and Tantalus, the heir to the name of his grandsire, when they had put an end to their wonted exercise {of riding}, had turned to the youthful exercises of the palaestra, glowing with oil;[40] and now had they brought[41] breast to breast, struggling in a close grapple, when an arrow, sped onward from the stretched bow, pierced them both, just as they were united together. At the same instant they groaned aloud, and together they laid their limbs ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso |
