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Seeing them pass by, men laughed and cheered them on, like spectators watching a footrace.
Al verlos pasar, la gente reía y los animaba, como espectadores que presencian una carrera pedestre.
He should be able to keep you alive until I can come back, covered in glory and draped with beautiful women, all of whom will be the winners of footraces.
Espero que te mantenga con vida hasta que yo vuelva cubierto de gloria y rodeado de mujeres bellas; serán todas campeonas de carrera pedestre.
The Veronese footrace, the palio in which Brunetto takes undefeated part was distinctly associated with male beauty and homosexual exhibitionism as was the green cloth flourished by the winner.
La carrera pedestre veronesa, el palio en el que participa un invencible Brunetto, estaba claramente asociada con la belleza masculina y con el exhibicionismo homosexual, como también lo estaba el paño verde que agitaba el ganador.
And they were working out, running in the training/practice area of the Olympic Village, not so much so as to tire themselves out, but just enough to keep their muscles and lungs ready for the murderous exertion of this longest of footraces.
Y ya se estaban entrenando (corrían en el área de práctica de la Villa Olímpica), no tanto como para cansarse, pero sí lo suficiente para mantener el estado de sus músculos y pulmones (que deberían soportar la más agotadora de las carreras pedestres).
Of course his wife had come dowered with huge lands, chests of gold and a king’s ransom in jewels – how her father, Ikarios, had protested at giving her to a man who couldn’t win a footrace without using trickery!
Me constaba que la esposa de Ulises había sido dotada con extensas tierras, cofres de oro y joyas equivalentes a un rescate real y cuánto había protestado ícaro, su padre, al entregarla a un hombre incapaz de ganar una carrera pedestre sin valerse de engaños.
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