Crossword-Solution: ATHL 4 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

When the Sportif Club received the challenge they doubted whether to accept it, as the Société Athlétique was rumoured to include several veterans approaching fifteen years of age and of tremendous physique.

The Société Athlétique was informed of the disaster and asked to supply a ball, but they answered that no known authority or precedent existed for visiting teams providing the accessories.

Ainsi oint des pieds à la tête, le beau nègre d'Anjouan semblait un athlète antique se préparant au combat.

Dans vos Escrits dans plus d’un lieu Je voy qu’à mes dépens vous affectés de rire; Mais ne craignés-vous point, que pour rire de Vous, Relisant Juvénal, refeuilletant Horace, Je ne ranime encor ma satirique audace? Grands Aristarques de Trévoux, N’allés point de nouveau faire courir aux armes, Un athlète tout prest à prendre son congé, Qui par vos traits malins au combat rengagé Peut encore aux Rieurs faire verser des larmes.

They usually bear the inscription [Greek: tôn Athênêthen athlôn eimiruv] "I am (a prize) from the games at Athens." Some of these can be dated by the names of Athenian archons which they bear, as late as the 4th century, the old method of painting in black figures with a stiff conventional pose for the goddess being retained for religious reasons.