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Show Brrd Women from Gsmes. Ono rule of tho original Olympic, games could not bo followed nowadays without provoking serious trouble. Women wore not allowed to ho pres. ent, or even to bo nnywhero In tho district whenthe games wore being celebrated un'vMn. ot being hurlod from a precipitous rock. This rule Is believed to have been defied only once, when the offender Was pardoned In consideration ot tho fact that her father, brothers and sou had boon vie tors In the games. One particular priestess, however, wus not only exempt ex-empt from this law, hut was accommodated accom-modated with a special front seat on an altar of whlto marble, and women wore allowed to enter chariots for tho races, though they might not be present pres-ent to see them win. |