each wrestler against the other1
Anoints himself with oil and smears his hands with dust.
[6]
After a short time, too, tidings came that Crassus had lost his life in Parthia, and so what had been a great hindrance to the breaking out of civil war was removed; for through fear of him both Pompey and Caesar had somehow or other continued to treat one another fairly. But when fortune had removed the third champion who waited to compete with the victor in their struggle, at once the comic poet's words were apt, and
1 Cf. Kock, Com. Graec. Frag. iii. p. 484.
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