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Milo (or Milon) (lived 6th century BC)| Greek athlete, born at Croton in Calabria. Famous for his enormous strength, he was six times victor in wrestling at the Olympic Games. |
| Milo also won victories at the Pythian games. According to tradition, in his old age he was passing through a forest when he saw a tree with a split trunk. He attempted to force the two parts of the trunk apart but they closed on his hands, and he was eaten by wild beasts. |
| The death of Milo is the subject of a statue (now in the Louvre, Paris) by the 17th-century French sculptor Pierre Puget. |
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| There were bits of old brocade on the walls, and the piano was covered with a piece of silk, beautiful and tarnished; in one corner was a copy of the Venus of Milo, and in another of the Venus of the Medici. Mirabel admires your figure; he calls you 'the Venus of Milo, in a state of perfect abridgment. "I have heard speak," said Porthos, "of a certain Milo of Crotona, who performed wonderful feats, such as binding his forehead with a cord and bursting it -- of killing an ox with a blow of his fist and carrying it home on his shoulders, et cetera. |
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