The Cruise of the Branwen

THE GAMES IN ATHENS position absurd in the chase or in war-and also to extend his left hand forward, as a balance, so as to deliver the throw with all the momentum of a real body swing in which the right shoulder describes a full arc from back to front. A mark was set down, in competitions, beyond which the thrower might not pass his foot (as in our weight and hammer), and Pindar's verses on this sub– ject show, among other things, that, as the javelin was part of the pentathlon, a competitor would be disqualified for the whole if his foot passed the mark in throwing 75