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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILO , or MILoN, of See also:

Crotona, See also:Greek See also:athlete, lived about the end of the 6th See also:century B.C. He was six times crowned at the Olympic See also:games and six times at the Pythian for See also:wrestling, and was famous throughout the civilized See also:world for his feats of strength—such as carrying an ox on his shoulders through the See also:stadium at See also:Olympia. In his native See also:city he was much honoured, and he commanded the See also:army which defeated the See also:people of See also:Sybaris in 511. The traditional See also:account of his See also:death is often used to point a moral: he found a See also:tree which some woodcutters had partially split with a See also:wedge, and attempted to rend it asunder; but the wedge See also:fell out, and the tree closed on his See also:hand, imprisoning him till wolves came and devoured him. His name became proverbial for See also:personal strength (Diod. Sic. xii. 9; See also:Pausanias vi. 14; See also:Strabo vi. 263; See also:Herodotus iii. 137).

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