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Definition of Caestus
1. cestus [n -ES] - See also: cestus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caestus
Literary usage of Caestus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odes of Pindar in English Prose by Pindar, Gilbert West (1824)
"THE combat of the caestus, which was revived in the twenty-third Olympiad, was
a very rough exercise; in which the victory was most commonly, if not always, ..."
2. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"The caestus used in later times iu the public games was, ns lias been already
remarked, a mo*t formidable weapon. It was frequently covered with knots and ..."
3. Virgil by Virgil, Henry Rushton Fairclough (1916)
"sic deinde locutus 400 in medium geminos immani pondere caestus proiecit, ...
tum senior talis referebat pectore voces : "quid, si quis caestus ipsius et ..."
4. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith, Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"The caestus was used by boxers from the earliest times. ... Tlie different kinds
of caestus were called by the Greeks in later times ..."
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