pankration

• PANCRATIUM (pagration, pankration, pangration) is composed of pan and kratos, and accordingly signifies an athletic game, in which all the powers of … —  News
• This last was a thoroughly American touch; but otherwise one of these contests was less a boxing match than a kind of backwoods pankration, no less revolting than its ancient prototype of Olympic fame. —  The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
• For the pankration, which comprised wrestling and boxing, see Aristot. —  The Symposium
• When he had set his heart on carrying off the palm of victory in the pankration, he took you into his counsel; (10) and will again take counsel to discover the fittest friend to aid him in his high endeavour, (11) and with this friend associate 10) It looks as if something had been lost intimating that Autolycus would have need of some one to instruct him in spiritual things For attempts to fill up the lacuna see Schenkl 11) Or, "these high pursuits Thereupon several of the company exclaimed at once. —  The Symposium
• There was a mile race for boys, the majority being captive lads; and for the long race more than sixty Cretans competed; there was wrestling, boxing, and the pankration (7). —  Anabasis

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