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‖ discobolus Class. Antiq.|dɪˈskɒbələs|
Also erron. -bulus.
[L., a. Gr. δισκοβόλος discus-thrower, f. δίσκος disc, discus + -βολος -throwing, -thrower, f. ablaut-grade of βάλλειν to throw.]
A thrower of the discus; an ancient statue representing a man in the act of throwing the discus.
1727Arbuthnot & Pope Martin. Scriblerus i. vi, The Discoboli..were naked to the middle only. 1851J. Gibson in Eastlake Life (1857) 185 (Stanf.) In the same room is the Discobulus of Myron, in the act of throwing his discus. 1877F. C. L. Wraxall Hugo's ‘Miserables’ ii. cxxx. 28 Vejanus the discobolus lives again in the rope-dancer Forioso. |