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1759. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 13 Sept., With your unathletic constitution I think you will have a greater weight of glory to represent than you can bear.
1791. Bentham, Panopt., II. Postcr. Wks. 1843, IV. 142, note. I forget what little tyrant it was of Greece, whose policy we are told it was, in the view of keeping his subjects quiet, to encourage them to betake themselves to unathletic occupations—in the language of the good old cut-throat morality, effeminate ones.
1888. Daily News, 25 Aug., 5/2 The absence of nerves in the unathletic Chinaman.
1910. E. N. Gardiner, Greek Athletic Sports & Fest., viii. 189. We see represented, in all their brutality and coarseness, the portraits of those professional prize-fighters and athletes whom the degraded and unathletic mob and court of Rome delighted to honour.
