FILLIP OF LOVE
A WRESTLER-BOXER’S TRIUMPH.
In the days of ancient Greece a gymnast, who was training Promachos, a famous pancratiast (a kind of wrestlerboxer) thought of a ruse to stimulate the champion. When the time for the Olympian games drew near the trainer said to the champion: “I believe, Promachos, thou are in love.” And when he saw that the boxer blushed, he continued: “Not in order to plague thee have I asked this, but to be helpful to thee in thy love affair. For. perhaps, I shall even put in a good word for thee with the maiden.” And. without having spoken with her. he came to the athlete and brought him an untrue, but for the love-lorn youth, exceedingly precious answer. He said: “She will not refuse thee her love, if thou conquerest at Olympia.” And Promachos took courage from what he heard, and was not only victorious, but even defeated Puldamas from Skotussa, even after the adventure with the lions, which Pulydamas had captured at the court of Ochos, the king of Persia.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1939, Page 2
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177FILLIP OF LOVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1939, Page 2
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