Pancratium
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
pancratium
in the texts
Rhetoric
A combined boxing-and-wrestling contest named as requiring excellence in both disciplines.
one who excels in boxing and wrestling is fit for the pancratium, he who excels in all for the pentathlon.
Symposium
The athletic contest in which Autolycus seeks victory.
For his ardour for glory is manifest, inasmuch as he undergoes many toils and many bodily discomforts to ensure his being proclaimed victor in the pancratium.