Discobolus
in classical antiquity, antiquity , a thrower of a discus, or quoit; a quoitplayer; specifically: the name given to the famous Greek statue of the quoitthrower, preserved among the Townley Marbles in the British Museum. In ichthyology a name given by Cuvier to his third family of soft-finned teleostean fishes, having the ventral fins under the pectoral. The name is derived from the ventral fins forming a disk on the under surface of the body, by which the fishes are enabled to catch hold on the points of rocks.