Editing Milo of Croton (section)

==Death==
[[File:Statue_of_Milo_of_Croton_in_Holland_Park_hand_not_yet_stuck.jpg|thumb|<small>Statue of Milo of Croton in Holland Park, London W11, prising open two sides of a tree stump, about to get his hand stuck.</small>]]
Legend has it that such feats were his eventual undoing. His final test of strength came when he was traveling the countryside and met a villager trying to split a stump with hammer and wedges. Milo excitedly asked the man if he could attempt to split the wood with his strength, not using any tools at all. The villager, honored by Milo's offer, went off to fetch food while Milo worked. Milo immediately tried to pull the stump apart by inserting his fingers in the crack where the villager had driven the wedges. As he pulled the stump open, the wedges fell out, trapping Milo's fingers. Without the wedges there to hold the crack open, when Milo tried, he could not free his fingers from the stump. There he waited for the villager to return with food. Legend then says that Milo met his end when wolves, or a lion, took advantage of his predicament and descended upon him.<ref>Diodorus. ''The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian'', 1814 (Original from the New York Public Library).</ref>