[Footnote 57: The athletic exercises, particularly the
caestus and pancratium, were condemned by Lycurgus,
Philopoemen, and Galen, a lawgiver, a general, and a
physician. Against their authority and reasons, the reader
may weigh the apology of Lucian, in the character of Solon.
See West on the Olympic Games, in his Pindar, vol. ii. p. 86
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