Word: sanum
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks, especially, of all people, the primary requisite for success in public and private life was a corpus sanum, without which the use to them of the mens sana was gone. Thus, in training their bodies, did Pericles, Demosthenes and nearly every Greek whose name and fame have been handed down to posterity, begin their work in life...
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