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Encyclopedia Britannica



MILO

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 478 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MILO , or MILoN, of Crotona,
Greek
 
athlete
 , lived about the end of the 6th
century
  B.C. He was six times crowned at the Olympic
games
  and six times at the Pythian for
wrestling
 , and was famous throughout the civilized world for his feats of strengthsuch as carrying an ox on his shoulders through the
stadium
  at Olympia. In his native city he was much honoured, and he commanded the army which defeated the
people
  of Sybaris in 511. The traditional account of his death is often used to point a moral: he found a tree which some woodcutters had partially split with a wedge, and attempted to rend it asunder; but the wedge
fell
  out, and the tree closed on his hand, imprisoning him till wolves came and devoured him. His name became proverbial for personal strength (Diod. Sic. xii. 9; Pausanias vi. 14;
Strabo
  vi. 263;
Herodotus
  iii. 137).


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