BOXERS. 237, 
stood in the temple of Apollo Lykios in Argos.!_ Pausanias says that 
Kreugas was crowned notwithstanding that he was killed by his adver- 
sary Damoxenos, and his description of the soft glove corresponds so 
closely with the one on the recovered arm that it seems as if it had been 
written in the presence of the statue: “In those days boxers did not yet 
wear the sharp thong (iwas d&0s) on each wrist, but boxed with the soft 
straps (uevAixats), which they fastened under the hollow of the hand in 
order that the fingers might be left bare; these soft straps were thin 
thongs (iuavres Aer7ol) of raw cowhide, plaited together in an ancient 
fashion.’? ‘The strap allowed the ends of the fingers to project, and was 
held together by a cord wound around the forearm, just as Philostratos 

Fic. 52.—Bronze Arm of Statue of a Boxer, found in the Sea off - 
Antikythera. National Museum, Athens. _ 
says. ‘lhese wecAixar were used at the great games through the fifth 
century B.C., and were continued in the palestra in the fourth. Early 
in the latter century the c@atpar mentioned by Plato? and other writers 
appeared. We see them on Panathenaic vases of that century and on 
Etruscan cistz of the following one.*~ About the same time the regu- 
lar iuavres d€e?s came in, but the old peAtxar or something similar 
were still used in the exercises of the palestra.°® 
Our best illustration of these more formidable gloves on statuary 1s 
the gauntlet clearly represented on the forearms of the Seated Boxer 

Beis, 40.93 cf. 11, 20.-1. 
2VIII, 40.3. Cf. the statues of Damoxenos and Kreugas by Canova in the Gabinetto di Canova 
of the Vatican, to see in how exaggerated a way a modern sculptor has interpreted the boxing 
bout of these famous athletes: Helbig, Fuehrer, 1, nos. 136, 137; Guide, 139, 140; Pistolesi, J/ 
Vaticano Descritto, IV, 91. 
3De Leg, VIII, 830 B; Plut., de Profectibus in virtute, 1X (80 B); Pollux, III, 150; Bekker, 
Anecd. gr., 1814-1821, I, p. 62, 1. 25. 
4E. g.,on an amphora in the British Museum: B. M. Vases, B 607; Mon. d. I., X, 1874-78, 
Pl. XLVIII, e 2; Gardiner, p. 407, fig. 135; Juethner, p. 83, fig. 67; on the Ficoroni Cista in the 
Museo Kircheriano, Rome: Helbig, Fuehrer, II, 1752; Guide, 437; Juethner, p. 82, fig. 66, a,c. On 
this cista, see F. Behn, Die ficoronische Cista, Arch. Studie, 1907; O. Jahn, Die ficoronische Cista, 
1852; etc. 
5Late writers generally use the terms ogaipar and iwavres ofets interchangeably. 
6. g., ériagacpain Plut., Praecept. ger. resp., 32 (=825 e). 
