Foot-race Sentence Examples
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They were said to have been instituted by the Idaean Heracles, to commemorate his victory over his four brothers in a foot-race.
Besides the foot-race in which the course was traversed once only, there were now the diaulos or double course, and the " long " foot-race (dolichos).
The exact length of the Stadium itself - which was primarily the course for the foot-race - was about 210 yds.
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