Amycus rose on recovering his senses, and the fight was renewed with double fury.
But at the last Amycus, rising as one that fells an ox, smote with all his might.
This Butes was of the race of Amycus, the great boxer whom Pollux slew, and no man had stood before him.
As the fight proceeds, the son of Leda improves in flesh and color, while Amycus gets out of breath, and sweats his thews away.
Amycus, who was king of Bithynia, is represented as of a gigantic size, and a great proficient with the cstus.