pancratium
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Origin of pancratium
1595–1605; < Latin < Greek pankrátion all-power exercise (noun use of neuter adj.), equivalent to pan- pan- + krát ( os ) strength, mastery + -ion, neuter of -ios adj. suffix
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Tiridates one day viewed an exhibition of pancratium.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
Instead of the pancratium, let there be contests in which the combatants carry bows and wear light shields and hurl javelins and throw stones.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
Who ever contested at the pancratium with a breast-plate on?
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
Reference is here made by Corvinus to the pancratium, an athletic exercise among the Romans, which combined all personal contests, such as boxing, wrestling, etc.
From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers
And the same holds in boxing and in the pancratium?
From Charmides by Jowett, Benjamin
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