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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek antiquity, one using the strigil; one scraping dust and perspiration from his body, as a bather or an athlete. Famous representations in art are a statue by Polycletus and one by Lysippus.
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sionnach commented on the word apoxyomenos
a statue of an athlete scraping off oil and dust with a strigil.
(This guy has lost his strigil)
January 4, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word apoxyomenos
Well, he won't notice since he has lost his fingers as well.
January 4, 2009
reesetee commented on the word apoxyomenos
I hate it when that happens.
January 6, 2009