Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Monobolon

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MONOB'OLON. A game in which various feats of leaping were displayed without the assistance of a leaping pole, or any other aid to muscular exertion, like the "sauts perilleux" of the French, or the "mortal leaps" of our itinerant showmen. (Imp. Justin. Cod. 3. 43. 3.) The example (Monobolon/1.1) is after an engraved gem; and though the word it illustrates belongs to a late period, the work of art is of a much earlier date.

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