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The corpus record — Latin

pammachum

pammachum · n

an athletic contest

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What it meant

pammachum — Lewis & Short

pammachum (-chium), i, n., = pamma/xion,

I an athletic contest, consisting of wrestling, boxing with the naked fists, and boxing with the cestus: in quibus (ludis) contendit pammachum (al. pammacho) quod nos pancratium vocamus, Hyg. Fab. 273; Inscr. Fabr. p. 106, n. 226.

Where it came from

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