out-raced

Updated: May 14, 2025

Perhaps Atlanta was not christened for the winged maiden of dull Boeotia; you know the tale, how swarthy Atalanta, tall and wild, would marry only him who out-raced her; and how the wily Hippomenes laid three apples of gold in the way.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk