Note 34 — Chapter II · GENERAL REMARKS ON THE EARLIER PHILOSOPHERS — GROWTH OF DIALECTIC — ZENO AND GORGIAS.
Reading edition
Theokritus, Idyll, xxii. 83; the description of the pugilistic contest between Pollux and Amykus:—
ἔνθα πολύς σφισι μόχθος ἐπειγομένοισιν ἐτύχθη, ὁππότερος κατὰ νῶτα λάβῃ φάος ἠελίοιο· ἀλλ’ ἰδρίῃ μέγαν ἄνδρα παρήλυθες ὦ Πολύδευκες· βάλλετο δ’ ἀκτίνεσσιν ἅπαν Ἀμύκοιο πρόσωπον.
To toss up for the sun, was a practice not yet introduced between pugilists.