250 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
translated as “the nude man attacking with his heel (ta/o)”—in other 
words, it describes a statue represented as kicking, which was allow- 
able in the pankration. The manuscripts of Pliny all read talo, which 
Benndorf! thought could be retained only by assuming that the natu- 
ralist mistranslated his Greek source yuuvds doTpayadw émikelpevos, 
translating the word émxeiuevos “standing upon,” as incessens “pur- 
suing.” He therefore assumed that Polykleitos’ statue stood upon an 

Fic. 60.— Bronze Statuette of a Pancratiast (?), 
from Autun, France. Louvre, Paris. 
astragalos (talus) basis, which he believed was the forerunner of the 
statue of Opportunity (Kapés) by Lysippos,” and he referred it to the 
knuckle-bone basis found at Olympia.*> Woelfflin,* however, has shown 
that talo incessens can only mean “mit einem Knochel nach Jemand 
einwerfen.’ Following this, Furtwaengler showed*® how impossible on 

1Ges. Stud. sur Kunstgesch., Festschr. fuer A. Springer, 1885, pp. 260. 2See S. Q., 1463-67. 
3Bildw. v. Ol., Tafelbd., Pl. LV, 4-5; Textbd., pp. 212 f., and fig. 239; F. W., no. 336; cf. Immer- 
wahr, Kulte und Mythen Arkadiens, I, 1891, p. 288. 
4 Archiv fuer lateinische Lexikographie u. Grammatik, LX, 1894, 1, pp. 109 f. 
5Mp., p. 249, n. 2; Mw., pp. 451-2; he adduced two passages from Ovid’s Met., XIV, 402 (saevts- 
que parant incessere telis), and XIII, 566-7 (telorum lapidumque incessere iactu coepit). 
