Olympiad being that in which Androsthenes, an Arcadian, won his first victory in the pancratium. ❋ Thucydides (2007)
Do you think, fellow citizens, that any man would ever have been willing to train for the pancratium or any other of the harder contests in the Olympic games … if the crown were given, not to the best man, but to the man who had successfully intrigued for it? ❋ Unknown (2004)
But as in the games they honor those champions who on the same day gain the garland, both in wrestling and in the pancratium, with the name of “Victors and more,” so Cimon, honoring Greece with a sea and land victory on the same day, may claim a certain preeminence among commanders. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
He often appointed prizes, for which not only tragedians and musicians, pipers and harpers, but rhapsodists also, strove to outvie one another; and delighted in all manner of hunting and cudgel-playing, but never gave any encouragement to contests either of boxing or of the pancratium. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
And the same holds in boxing and in the pancratium? ❋ Unknown (2003)
At least say, that you have just seen Ephudion doing well in the pancratium with Ascondas and, that despite his age and his white hair, he is still robust in loin and arm and flank and that his chest is a very breast-plate. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Who ever contested at the pancratium with a breast-plate on? ❋ Unknown (2000)
Pancratiast, competitor in the pancratium, a combined contest which comprised boxing and wrestling. ❋ Emperor Of Rome Marcus Aurelius (N/A)
At least say, that you have just seen Ephudion making good play in the pancratium [139] with Ascondas and, that despite his age and his white hair, he is still robust in loin and arm and flank and that his chest is a very breastplate. ❋ 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes (N/A)
As a cut bloom, the Christmas Rose vies with the eucharis and pancratium. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
It is thickly covered with bushes and trees, among which Mr. Cunningham found a great many plants that interested him, particularly the bulbous roots of a species of pancratium, and some large specimens of Mimusops kauki in fruit, besides which he observed a remarkable tree which he has described in his journal by the name of Gueltarda octandra. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)
Accordingly we devise elaborate gymnastic exercises, appoint instructors of each variety, and teach one boxing, another the pancratium. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)
Of the exercises here, that in the clay is called wrestling; the youths in the dust are also called wrestlers, and those who strike each other standing are engaged in what we call the pancratium. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)
So you know how they arrange ties for the wrestling or the pancratium? ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1894)
When all have drawn, the chief police officer, I think it is, or one of the stewards themselves -- I cannot quite remember this detail --, goes round and examines the lots while they stand in a circle, and puts together the two alphas for the wrestling or pancratium, and so for the two betas, and the rest. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1894)
These contests, (1 Timothy 6: 12; 2 Timothy 4: 7) were divided into two classes, the pancratium, consisting of boxing and wrestling, and the pentathlon, consisting of leaping, running, quoiting, hurling the spear and wrestling. ❋ Unknown (1884)
The four-horse chariot-race came later; afterwards the pancratium (wrestling and boxing, without the leaded thongs); boys 'races and wrestling and boxing matches; foot-races in a full suit of armor; and in the fifth century, two-horse chariot-races. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
