The Cruise of the Branwen

CHAPTER VIII THE FENCING TOURNAMENT Quando repostum Caecubum ad festas dapes Victore laetus Caesare, Tecum sub alta (sic Jovi gratum) domo, Beate Maecenas bibam, Sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra, Hae Dorium, illis Barbarum ? • IT will complete the athletic portion of my record if I now quote the detailed description of the fencing at Athens contributed to the Field for May 26 by Mr. Charles Newton Robinson. "It may be interesting to review from an English fencer's standpoint the performances of the different nations represented in the fencing at Athens. There were matches for international teams, both at the epee and sabre, while the individual competitions in– cluded also one for the foil. In the latter, which took place at the fine exhibition build– ings known as the Zappeion, in a room crowded with spectators, there were many preliminary heats, in which, as usual, much rough play was seen, the more finished fencers often fail– ing to obtain the requisite points against very 105