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ANACLINOPALE

Volume 2 · 51 words · 1842 Edition

Ανακλινωπαλη, in Antiquity, a kind of wrestling, wherein the champions threw themselves voluntarily on the ground, and continued the combat by pinching, biting, scratching, and other methods of offence. The Anaclinopale was contradistinguished from the Orthopale, wherein the champions stood erect. In the Anaclinopale the weaker combatants sometimes gained the victory.