WRESTLING. 
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ancient Romans. One was tall and thin., the perfect 
model of an Indian Apollo. His chest was broad ; 
his waist remarkably taper ; his gait erect, and every 
motion full of decision and grace. His arms were 
long; his hands small as a woman’s. His adversary 
was at least three inches shorter, with a very ro- 
bust body, but ill-formed legs ; these being rather 
bowed, stumpy, and destitute of muscle. His arms, 
however, exhibited a legible index of muscular ener- 
gy that could not be mistaken. They were long 
and covered with hair, like those of a huge bear ; 
whilst his broad, expansive chest, no less sinewy 
and hirsute, showed evidently that he would prove a 
formidable opponent. The expression of his counte- 
nance was mild, but determined ; and he eyed his 
more graceful adversary with a smile that seemed 
to acknowledge his personal advantages, but at the 
same time indicated that they were not likely to 
win for him the palm of superiority in the coming 
encounter. 
The handsomer wrestler had a restless and ardent 
motion of the eye, that gave the spectator an im- 
pression either of want of confidence in his own pow- 
ers or an apprehension of his adversary’s physical 
superiority ; nevertheless he did not quail, but ad- 
vanced to the struggle with a calm yet fearless deter- 
mination. The head of both champions was perfectly 
bare, with the exception of a single lock of hair about 
three inches long, which grew from the crown and 
hung rather quaintly over the left ear ; the bald cra- 
nium imparting a look of keenness and delicacy to the 
countenance of the handsomer competitor, though it 
