crouching-as

Updated: May 18, 2025

C. O. Muller in his History and Antiquities of the Doric Race gives the following account of the Pyrrhic dance among the Greeks, which was danced in full armor: "Plato says that it imitated all the attitudes of defence, by avoiding a thrust or a cast, retreating, springing up, and crouching-as also the opposite movements of attack with arrows and lances, and also of every kind of thrust.

Edward Carpenter - Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning