In 480 B.C., the new Persian king sent a massive army across the Hellespont to Thermopylae, where 60,000 Persian troops defeated 5,000 Greeks. The year after that, however, the Greeks defeated the Persians for good at the battle of Salamis.
1. (Weightlifting) the sport of lifting barbells of specified weights in a prescribed manner for competition or exercise.
lift. 1  heavy-From the Proto-Germanic verb khabjan, lift, came the noun khabiz, weight, which begat the Dutch hevig and then English heavy. 2  hover-Comes from hove, raise, lift, rise or linger, wait.. 3  lift-The action of cutting a deck of cards used to be called the lift.