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Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

Note 198 — Chapter VI · PROFESSIONALISM AND SPECIALIZATION, 440-338 B.C.

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They were merely competitions in strength of lung. Herodorus of Megara, a famous trumpeter who won ten times at Olympia, was said to be able to blow two trumpets at once with such force that no one could stand in his neighbourhood. Athen. 10, 7, p. 415.

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