harpalacus

Updated: May 15, 2025

And all the tricks wherewith the nimble Argive cross-buttockers give each other the fall, and all the wiles of boxers skilled with the gloves, and all the art that the rough and tumble fighters have sought out to aid their science, all these did Heracles learn from Harpalacus of Phanes, the son of Hermes.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose