Achilles institutes the funeral games: the chariot-race, the fight of the caestus, the wrestling, the foot-race, the single combat, the discus, the shooting with arrows, the darting the javelin: the various descriptions of which, and the various success of the several antagonists, make the greatest part of the book. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So it was amid a motley throng of spectators that Castus and Rufus stood up to box together with the _caestus_ that afternoon, and a murmur of admiration rose up from the spectators as the two handsome, graceful young men stepped lightly into the grassy arena. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
The _caestus_ is to be distinguished from _cestus_ (= embroidered, from [Greek: kentein]), an adjective used as a noun in the sense of ❋ Various (N/A)
But even this _letter_, when they transcribed it, writhed and was choked beneath hands which knew better the iron caestus of the gladiator than the subtile and spiritual touch of the artist. ❋ Various (N/A)
Fell, my other drunken companion (that has been: nam hic caestus artemque repono), is turned editor of a Naval Chronicle. ❋ Various (1913)
And this secret of theirs has never been discovered by the imitators of Lacedaemonian fashions in other cities, who go about with their ears bruised in imitation of them, and have the caestus bound on their arms, and are always in training, and wear short cloaks; for they imagine that these are the practices which have enabled the Lacedaemonians to conquer the other Hellenes. ❋ Plato (1889)
So _hic caestus_, etc. -- though I am not such a coxcomb as to include _victor_ in the quotation. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
His activity was as remarkable as his strength, and he was equally formidable with the trident and net as with sword and buckler; while in wrestling and with the caestus none of the others could stand up against him. ❋ Unknown (1867)
Then there is the caestus, but the Romans do not care for that, though, to my mind, it is the finest of all the exercises; for that both strength and activity are required, but it is not bloody enough for the Romans. ❋ Unknown (1867)
In the exercises the men practised with many wrappings of wadding and cotton wound round the caestus, answering the purpose of the modern boxing glove. ❋ Unknown (1867)
"I do not see the use of the caestus," Beric said one day. ❋ Unknown (1867)
Achilles institutes the funeral games: the chariot-race, the fight of the caestus, the wrestling, the footrace, the single combat, the discus, the shooting with arrows, the darting the javelin: the various descriptions of which, and the various success of the several antagonists, make the greatest part of the book. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1834)
Fell, my other drunken companion (that has been: nam hic caestus artemque repono), is turned editor of a "Naval Chronicle." ❋ Mary Lamb (1805)
And yet I own your letter has made me amends, the wit of your pen recompenses the stupidity of your pencil; the caestus you have taken up supplies a little the artem you have relinquished. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
You have done enough, and are well entitled to the motto of Virgil ” “Hic Victor caestus artemque repono.” ❋ Nelson, Horatio (1814)
[ "The power of custom is very great: huntsmen will lie out all night in the snow, or suffer themselves to be burned up by the sun on the mountains; boxers, hurt by the caestus, never utter a groan." ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)
