Definition of Discabolus
||Dis*cob"o*lus (?), n.; pl.
Discoboli (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; a discu + &?;
to throw.] (Fine Arts) (a) A thrower of
the discus. (b) A statue of an athlete
holding the discus, or about to throw it.
&fist; The Discobolus of Myron was a famous statue of
antiquity, and several copies or imitations of it have been
preserved.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a discus thrower
- a statue of a discus thrower
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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