For such contests the hippodrome was set apart.
In the political interests which these contests involved he took no part; his favourite disciple, the princess Elizabeth, was the daughter of the banished king, against whom he had served in Bohemia; and Queen Christina, his second royal follower, was the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus.
For the contests of the Reatines with the people of Interamna see Terni.
In the second volume of La Vie litteraire Anatole France contests the theory of Sainte-Beuve.
The campaign that followed was one of the bitterest political contests in American history.
