pancratiasten
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pancratiastes, pancratiastae:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Field:
- Military
wrestler (in Pancratium);
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...Diagoras tris filios adulescentis habuit, unum pugilem, alterum pancratiasten, tertium luctatorem. Eos omnis vidit vincere coronarique Olympiae eodem..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...exemplo recedamus, exercendi corpora peritus non, si docendum pancratiasten susceperit, pugno ferire uel calce tantum aut nexus modo..."