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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In classical antiquity, a thrower of the discus; one engaged in the exercise of throwing the discus; specifically [capitalized], a famous ancient statue by Myron (fifth century B.C.), representing a man in the act of throwing a discus.
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- noun A thrower of the discus.
- noun A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.
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- noun a
discus thrower - noun a
statue of a discus thrower
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Examples
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If we may trust the old marbles, -- my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis, -- those Greek young men were of supreme beauty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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No statue of a warrior was sculptured in the varied attitudes of attack and defence; no wrestler, no _discobolus_, no pugilist exhibited the grace, the vigor, or the muscular action of a man; nor were the beauties, the feeling, and the elegance of female forms displayed in stone: all was made to conform to the same invariable model, which confined the human figure to a few conventional postures.
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You are strong enough, certainly, but the art of the discobolus must be learned like any other.
Homo Sum — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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You are strong enough, certainly, but the art of the discobolus must be learned like any other.
Homo Sum — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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You are strong enough, certainly, but the art of the discobolus must be learned like any other.
Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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You are strong enough, certainly, but the art of the discobolus must be learned like any other.
Homo Sum — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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You are strong enough, certainly, but the art of the discobolus must be learned like any other.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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The eyes, the facial lines which they gather into one, seem ready to follow the coming motion of the discus as those of an onlooker might be; [289] but that head does not really belong to the discobolus.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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In any passable representation of the Greek discobolus, as in any passable representation of an English cricketer, there can be no successful evasion of the natural difficulties of the thing to be done -- the difficulties of competing with nature itself, or its maker, in that marvellous combination of motion and rest, of inward mechanism with the so smoothly finished surface and outline -- finished ad unguem -- which enfold it.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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If we may trust the old marbles, my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis, -- those Greek young men were of supreme beauty.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
hernesheir commented on the word discobolus
(n): 1. in ancient Greece or Rome, the thrower of the discus, or quoit.
2. The statue of a discus thrower attributed to Myron, 5th Century b.c.
Also discobolus
January 6, 2009
jaime_d commented on the word discobolus
"The discobolus, she continued, who presently appeared on the anxious trot to ask the bloody impressionist and the screaming Madame Monet if they had seen his quoit was a bassetted and spatted Englishman whose carp's mouth and plaid knickerbockers sprang from the pages of Jerome K. Jerome."
--Guy Davenport in "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg"
January 19, 2010