pancratiasten
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pancratiastes, pancratiastae:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Field:
- Military
wrestler (in Pancratium);
acc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...Diagoras tris filios adulescentis habuit, unum pugilem, alterum pancratiasten, tertium luctatorem. Eos omnis vidit vincere coronarique Olympiae eodem..." - M
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..."