MILO OF CROTON

                Milo of Croton was the strongest man in Ancient Greece.  He got that way by carrying a newborn calf on his shoulders every day.  As the calf grew into a fully grown cow, Milos gradually got stronger.  To maintain his strength he consumed 20 pounds of meat, 20 pounds of bread, and 10 liters of wine each day.  He was a star at the Panhellenic Games for decades.   The legend of his death was an embarrassing for such a he-man.  He was strolling through the woods one day when he came upon a tree that had several wedges in it in an attempt to split it.    The woodsman being nowhere to be found, Milo accepted the challenge to finish the job with his hands.  When he began to push the two parts of the tree apart, this dislodged the wedges causing the tree to spring back and catching his hands in the vice.  To add insult to injury, along came a lion who took advantage of the incapacity of the world’s strongest man to have himself a meal.

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