discobolus

/ (dɪsˈkɒbələs) /

(in classical Greece) a discus thrower

a statue of a discus thrower

Word Origin for discobolus

C18: from Latin, from Greek diskobolos, from diskos discus + -bolos, from ballein to throw

The facial angle of the Discobolus also, like that of Antinoous, like that of the normal human visage, is 75°.

Pedagogical Anthropology |Maria Montessori
He's god-like to look at; he's got a figure like the Discobolus, and the brain of a Dr. Watson.

What Not |Rose Macaulay
It is so with the statue in our illustration called the Discobolus or Disk-thrower.

Greek Sculpture |Estelle M. Hurll
His waist was thick with pones of sinew bulging over the hips, as one sees in the statue of Discobolus.

The Cruise of the Dry Dock |T. S. Stribling

But there is no evidence to show that that aspiring youth ever produced an Aphrodite or a Discobolus.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 |Charles H. Sylvester