Milo

Milo, of Crotona, in Magna Græcia, an athlete famous for his great strength. He was six times victor for wrestling at the Olympic games, and as often at the Pythian, and commanded the army which defeated the Sybarites in 511. On one occasion he is said to have carried a live ox upon his shoulders through the stadium of Olympia, and afterwards to have eaten the whole of it in one day; and on another, to have upheld the pillars of a house in which Pythagoras and his scholars were assembled, so as to give them time to make their escape when the house was falling. In old age he lost his life through too great confidence in his own strength, in attempting to split up a tree, which closed upon his hands, and held him fast until he was devoured by wolves.